A.M.
The debut, made within months of Uncle Tupelo's end: thirteen songs of 1990s alt-country.
Wilco, 1995
- Released
- 28 March 1995
- Recorded
- June to August 1994
- Studio
- Easley McCain Recording, Memphis
- Label
- Sire/Reprise
- Producer
- Brian Paulson, Wilco
- Length
- 44:33
Stirratt suggested Easley from his days in the Hilltops, and Tweedy knew it from a Jon Spencer Blues Explosion record. Warner's Joe McEwen heard the result as a step back from Anodyne and had Richard Dodd, fresh from Tom Petty's Wildflowers, remix it with the vocals pushed forward for radio. Pitchfork reported that the original mix was much grittier. The radio on the cover belonged to Tweedy's father. It holds the only Stirratt song on any Wilco album, It's Just That Simple, and its one single, Box Full of Letters, got little airplay.
Holly George-Warren in Rolling Stone called it a country-guts debut, while Greg Kot later found little sense of drama or risk. Pitchfork, reviewing the 2017 deluxe reissue, called it the very definition of 1990s alt-country.
Track listing
- I Must Be High2:59
- Casino Queen2:45
- Box Full of Letters3:05
- Shouldn't Be Ashamed3:28
- Pick Up the Change2:56
- I Thought I Held You3:49
- That's Not the Issue3:19
- It's Just That Simple3:45
- Should've Been in Love3:36
- Passenger Side3:33
- Dash 73:29
- Blue Eyed Soul4:05
- Too Far Apart3:44
Personnel
- Jeff Tweedy vocals, guitar
- John Stirratt bass, vocals
- Ken Coomer drums, vocals
- Max Johnston fiddle, vocals
- Brian Henneman guitar, vocals
- Lloyd Maines pedal steel
- Daniel Corrigan vocals, photography
- Brian Paulson producer
- Richard Dodd mixing
- Howie Weinberg mastering
More from Wilco
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
Sources
- A.M. (Wilco album), Wikipedia
- Wilco: A.M. / Being There, Pitchfork (2017)
- A.M., Discogs