Show #135: Uncle Tupelo on Labor Day
Let me begin by wishing everyone here in the States a happy Labor Day and apologizing to a listener named Robin who requested the second set of the Ray Davies concert from here in Madison last year. Robin, I apologize because I'm going to post it next week instead as I want to do a little to commemorate Labor Day. Also, if you want a copy of the RD show on CD (for free, of course), please e-mail me.
Foregoing Robin's request for a week seemed appropriate given the holiday and the ongoing labor dispute that is making news here in Madison. A local restaurant called La Hacienda is being boycotted due to unfair labor practices, namely, not paying overtime. It is alleged, amongst other things, that several workers worked an average of 30 hours a week in OT and were forced by management to refrain from marking this on their timesheets. Workers a hundred years ago fought long and hard and suffered the wrath of businesses and their Pinkerton goons to establish a 40 workweek and overtime laws. To see them actively being broken is sad and should engender anger in fair-minded folk. It's also disheartening to read news of economic stagnation for the workers of Wisconsin and the country generally.
I'd meant to do a mix show this week with various songs about workers and labor but, alas, I started too late. Parsing hundreds of shows for appropriate songs would have taken ages. Instead I chose a show by Uncle Tupelo who sang many a song about workers and the working class generally.
This is their show a bit south of here from Beloit College on 11 September 1992. The next day they played here in Madison at the Club DeWash. Their performance was part of a folk festival and thusly they performed with acoustic instruments. Long-time friend Brian Henneman (of The Bottle Rockets) guests throughout the set which is notable for having the band's first known cover of Neil Young's "Motion Pictures".
Setlist:
Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down
True to Life
No Depression
Watch Me Fall
Shaky Ground
Atomic Power
Whiskey Bottle
Wait Up
Wipe the Clock
I Wish My Baby Was Born
Do Re Mi
Life Worth Livin'
I Wanna Be Your Dog
Still Be Around
Warfare
Moonshiner
Grindstone
Sin City
Motion Pictures
Download show
Uncle Tupelo
There's a surprising paucity of UT on YouTube so I present the only 1992-era clip. It's of "Gun" from 10 November 1992 at Bloomington, Indiana.
Foregoing Robin's request for a week seemed appropriate given the holiday and the ongoing labor dispute that is making news here in Madison. A local restaurant called La Hacienda is being boycotted due to unfair labor practices, namely, not paying overtime. It is alleged, amongst other things, that several workers worked an average of 30 hours a week in OT and were forced by management to refrain from marking this on their timesheets. Workers a hundred years ago fought long and hard and suffered the wrath of businesses and their Pinkerton goons to establish a 40 workweek and overtime laws. To see them actively being broken is sad and should engender anger in fair-minded folk. It's also disheartening to read news of economic stagnation for the workers of Wisconsin and the country generally.
I'd meant to do a mix show this week with various songs about workers and labor but, alas, I started too late. Parsing hundreds of shows for appropriate songs would have taken ages. Instead I chose a show by Uncle Tupelo who sang many a song about workers and the working class generally.
This is their show a bit south of here from Beloit College on 11 September 1992. The next day they played here in Madison at the Club DeWash. Their performance was part of a folk festival and thusly they performed with acoustic instruments. Long-time friend Brian Henneman (of The Bottle Rockets) guests throughout the set which is notable for having the band's first known cover of Neil Young's "Motion Pictures".
Setlist:
Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down
True to Life
No Depression
Watch Me Fall
Shaky Ground
Atomic Power
Whiskey Bottle
Wait Up
Wipe the Clock
I Wish My Baby Was Born
Do Re Mi
Life Worth Livin'
I Wanna Be Your Dog
Still Be Around
Warfare
Moonshiner
Grindstone
Sin City
Motion Pictures
Download show
Uncle Tupelo
There's a surprising paucity of UT on YouTube so I present the only 1992-era clip. It's of "Gun" from 10 November 1992 at Bloomington, Indiana.
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