Though Wilco and Tweedy would hit their creative zenith three years later on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Summerteeth was arguably the more pivotal record, taking Wilco beyond alternative country and into territory that was poppier, but also weirder and darker. But it wasn’t until Summerteeth was released in March 1999 that the tables definitively turned-that Wilco started being hailed as the next great American band, and Son Volt the other guys from Uncle Tupelo. as well as a legitimate radio hit in “Drown.” The playing field levelled somewhat with their sophomore records: While the sprawling Being There marked a quantum leap for Tweedy as a songwriter and Wilco as a band, Son Volt’s Straightaways cracked the top 50 on the Billboard 200. Both bands released their debut albums the following year, and at first it appeared that Farrar had gotten the better of Tweedy, with Son Volt’s Trace scoring better reviews than Wilco’s A.M. After the dissolution of Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy’s musical relationship in 1994, Farrar left Uncle Tupelo to form Son Volt, while Tweedy kept his old bandmates but changed the group’s name to Wilco. You could still safely bet on Son Volt in early 1999.
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