Uncle Tupelo - Moonshiner download

Not Dylan.  Not Tweedy. Farrar and some great company.  Ghosts of greatness but the real work of some country lovin' geeks from a little shit town in the Midwest near St Louis.

Still one incredibly powerful song after all these years!!

I remember them playing the dive bars in my hometown of Belleville IL. They were such a great group.

Blessed enough to have been growing up a late teen early twenty something when Uncle Tupelo was getting started and making their name. Even more blessed to have lived in a place that they often called home. Saw some great intimate shows, people's houses, backyards, after parties. Damn shame they couldn't reconcile their egos in the end. 

Twenty five years later and still one of my favorites. Powerful.

Still say this is in the soundtrack of my perfect movie that I haven't written yet . Thank you guys !

Does Jay Farrar have a voice made for a song like this, or what? So many of his great songs are dirges.

I've been a moonshiner For seventeen long years And I spent all my money On whisky and beer And I go to some hollow And set up my still If whisky don't kill me Lord, I don't know what will And I go to some barroom To drink with my friends Where the women they can't follow To see what I spend God bless them pretty women I wish they was mine With breath as sweet as The dew on the vine Let me eat when I'm hungry Let me drink when I'm dry Two dollars when I'm hard up Religion when I die The whole world is a bottle And life is but a dram When the bottle gets empty Lord, it sure ain't worth a damn

god damn it I love this song. Wish I had known about these guys when they were together.

There just isn't enough harmonica music in the world. Thank you, Uncle Tupelo!

RIP Uncle Tupelo great while you lasted though the two bands that came out of it are also great. Son Volt and Wilco thanks Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy hope you guys play a show in st. louis sometime like you used to.

Call it what you want...Alt Country, Americana...I call it damn good music...

best song ever...If whiskey don't kill me Lord, I don't know what will...

The harmonica in this song punches me right in the heart, in the best possible way.

I was a young twenty two year old Gen X when I first saw them in Lawrence, Kansas. Later, as a burnt out old Journalist, I found myself working for an Alt Country station in Dallas. The sound makes me remember a time and place that are long gone.

This is an old traditional song! Peter Rowan does an awesome bluegrass version of it. I really love Farrar’s vocals on their rendition.

I remember reading an interview with them back in the day and I think it was Jeff who was relating an anecdote about how someone in Chicago or some other big city was asking them if they had ever seen an escalator before. When you grow up in the middle of nowhere and eventually encounter people who think they're sophisticated you quickly learn just how ignorant some of these people can truly be.

Glad to also have been in my twenties in the early 90’s. Saw them at the Music Farm, CHARLESTON SC

This is the best version of this old song, in my opinion.