RE: Tweedy quote/alt.country (LONG and IRRITATED)

[Bob Soron]

At 9:49 AM -0500  on 3/5/99, Jon Weisberger wrote:

>One point worth recalling - and I wish I could lay my hands on the
>interview - is that at least once one of the UT guys has said that part of
>their interest in doing country-influenced music was for the outrageousness
>factor, i.e., what could be more convention-defying to punk-oriented peers
>than getting twangy?

Guess they didn't know about Joe Ely's tour with the Clash. UT was a
decade too late.

Bob