Uncle Tupelo Live On Conan "The Long Cut" 

I assure you, it is Ken Coomer; I live in the Belleville/St. Louis area and followed UT closely back then--seeing them in bars. Jay Bennett was never in Uncle Tupelo. Yes, I see the resemblence with the curly hair and all, but it is not Jay. To see a picture of the 2 of them in Wilco, google search "chicago magazine coomer"-- click on the 1st link to chicago magazine--it's an article about Jay--it shows them together and you can see that it is Coomer in this Conan video of Uncle Tupelo.

As much as I love UT, I think we all won when got 2 wildly different bands out of the smoldering wreckage.

The Wilco/Son Volt debate can go on forever. We got genius from both. Lets just agree to the divorce and move on.

Jay is wearing a Bottle Rockets shirt. When the Bottle Rockets played Conan the next year, one of them was wearing a Son Volt shirt!

Tweedy's bio brought me here...

I can't believe it's Jeff singing on national tv. This must have been burning Jay alive inside.

Son Volt's Trace is one of my top 10 albums ever. When it came out I listened to it for probably six months straight.

Jay "Sad Keanu" Farrar

If you heard Uncle Tupelo was an alt country band, and this was all you ever heard/saw of them, you'd probably think, "Huh. These guys sound more like a Noise Band." Love the rawness shown here.

love Jay's Bottle Rockets t-shirt!

Awesome! Hard to believe it's been 30 years since I first saw these guys at Lounge Ax in Chicago. Long live UT.

so much good music was birthed from this band and its offspring

Thank you internet and the person who uploaded this video. Oh and youtube.

This is my favorite of the UT, W, SV canon. Has everything I love: rock, melody, & punny logic. I'd been taking long cuts for years before I heard the song. I was lucky enough to stumble into Wilco, then UT, then Son Volt so I didn't have to choose a side. I knew OF them but I didn't take the time to realize that this was MY music. You'd have thunk that years of loving The Replacements I would have accidentally heard them but, nope.

Drummer is like a clock. amazing talent.

Chiming in with a few relevant quips: The Heidorns were my neighbors, on Anna Ln. in Swansea, IL and I was friends with Suzie Heidorn, Mike Heidorn's little sister. For those who don't know, Mike was the Orig Drummer for UT. I got to sit in on quite a few rehearsals in the mid 80s when I was about 7-11, in the Heidorn's basement while Suzie and I ate a stupid amount of popcicles. Anodyne came out when I was about to graduate from Belleville West. Saw the original UT only once at Mississippi Nights in '90. They were great. I also got to interview Jay about 20 years ago when Son Volt released 'Okemah and the Melody of Riot.'

Jay was already at the top of his craft at this young age. As we know Jeff's journey was just begining.

They are the Nirvana of country music!

What a great performance.

Never knew until recently that Ken played with Uncle Tupelo. I saw him many times with Clockhammer, which was a real treat! And of course, Wilco.