Hootenanny (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Hootenanny
Type = Album
Artist = The Replacements


Released = April 29, 1983
Recorded = Blackberry Way Studios
Stark/Mudge Mobile Unit warehouse
Oct. 1982 - Jan. 1983
Genre = Punk rock, College rock
Length = 31:06 (original)
48:50 (Deluxe Edition)
Label = Twin/Tone Records
Producer = The Replacements, Peter Jesperson, Paul Stark
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:23220rjac48b link]
*Pitchfork Media (7.9/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/50071-sorry-ma-forgot-to-take-out-the-trash-stink-hootenanny-let-it-be link]
*Robert Christgau (B+) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=the+replacements link]
Last album = "Stink (EP)"
(1982)
This album = "Hootenanny"
(1983)
Next album = "Let It Be"
(1984)

"Hootenanny" was the second album by The Replacements. It was recorded from October 1982 to January 1983 at Blackberry Way Studios, and at Stark/Mudge Mobile Unit warehouse, Brooklyn Center, Roseville, Minnesota (or as the liner notes put it, "at a warehouse in some godawful suburb north of Mpls.") It was released on April 29, 1983 (see 1983 in music).

The cover art was an homage to the 1963 Crestview Records compilation album "Hootenanny," which chronicled several prominent folk artists of the time.

The lyrics for the song "Lovelines" were taken verbatim from the personals/classifieds section from the volume four, number seventy-nine Wednesday October 13, 1982 issue of the Minneapolis newspaper "City Pages". The surf-instrumental "Buck Hill" takes its name from a small skiing area in Burnsville, Minnesota just a few miles south of Minneapolis. "Within Your Reach" is Westerberg solo on all instruments and vocals. The song later appeared in the Cameron Crowe film "Say Anything...". "Mr. Whirly" is a pseudo-cover / parody of the Beatles track "Oh Darling" (with the opening bars of "Strawberry Fields Forever") and bears the writing credit "mostly stolen" on the record label.

The opening track, "Hootenanny" features a rearranged lineup--Chris Mars and Tommy Stinson on guitars, Bob Stinson on bass, and Westerburg on drums.

Outtakes from this album include (but are not limited to): "Don't Get Married", "Ain't No Crime"and "Shoot Me, Kill Me". The original version of "Lovelines" is "Lookin' For Ya".

The album was remastered and reissued by Rhino Entertainment on April 22, 2008 with 7 additional tracks.

Track listing

All songs by Paul Westerberg except as indicated:

ide one

# "Hootenanny" (Westerberg, Bob Stinson, Tommy Stinson, Chris Mars) – 1:52
# "Run It" (Westerberg, Mars) – 1:11
# "Color Me Impressed" – 2:25
# "Willpower" – 4:22
# "Take Me Down to the Hospital" – 3:47
# "Mr. Whirly" (mostly stolen) – 1:53

ide two

# "Within Your Reach" – 4:24
# "Buck Hill" (Westerberg, Stinson, Mars) – 2:09
# "Lovelines" (Westerberg, Stinson, Stinson, Mars, C.P. Readers) – 2:01
# "You Lose" (Westerberg, Stinson, Stinson, Mars) – 1:41
# "Hayday" – 2:06
# "Treatment Bound" – 3:16

2008 CD reissue bonus tracks

#

"Lookin' for Ya" - 1:57
#"Junior's Got a Gun (Outtake - Rough Mix)" - 2:08
#"Ain't No Crime (Outtake)" - 1:15
#"Johnny Fast (Outtake - Rough Mix)" - 2:28
#"Treatment Bound (Alternate Version)" - 3:15
#"Lovelines (Alternate Vocal)" - 2:05
#"Bad Worker (Solo Home Demo)" - 4:14

*Tracks 14-19 previously unreleased.

Personnel

*Bob Stinson - lead guitar (except bass on "Hootenanny")
*Tommy Stinson - bass guitar (except 2nd guitar on "Hootenanny")
*Paul Westerberg - vocals and guitar (except drums on "Hootenanny" and all instruments on "Within Your Reach")
*Chris Mars - drums (except lead guitar on "Hootenanny")