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Uncle Tupelo was an alternative country music group from Belleville, Illinois, active between 1987 and 1994. Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy, and Mike Heidorn formed the band after the lead singer of their previous band, The Primitives, left to attend college. The trio recorded three albums for Rockville Records, before signing with Sire Records and expanding to a five-piece. Shortly after the release of the band's major label debut album Anodyne, Farrar announced his decision to leave the band due to a soured relationship with his co-songwriter Tweedy. Uncle Tupelo split on May 1, 1994, after completing a farewell tour. Following...

The in Hendersonville, Tennessee based husband and wife team of Ricky Davis (acoustic & electric guitars, dobro, vocals) and Micol Davis (piano, tambourine, vocals) began performing as a duo in 1995. Soon thereafter, drummers, bassists, harmonica players, fiddle players and other friends would sit in. BMT primarily performs as a trio with guitars (acoustic, electric & slide), piano, tambourines, drums & percussion. Ricky & Micol also perform in the original duo format as well. Unique, passionate, inspired and unaffected by musical genres, Blue Mother Tupelo is pure heart and soul. .

The Tupelos are an all-female a cappella singing group named after the romantic spot on Wellesley College's Lake Waban, "Tupelo Point." The Tupelos have been dishing out red hot a cappella goodness since 1949, presenting high-energy, aurally and visually stimulating shows up and down the East Coast. "It all began freshman year," mused Georgia Beaverson '51, unofficial head of what we now know as the Wellesley Tupelos. "Eight of us in Eliot went out with some Spizzwinks from Yale." Listening to their dates as they sat harmonizing around the Eliot living-room that Sunday, Georgia continued, the eight decided to form...