My Top 1000 Songs #749: True To Life

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.] 

A deep cut on Uncle Tupelo's second album, 1991's Still Feel Gone, "True To Life" sands off some of the post-punk edge that pervaded their first two albums, leaving behind some unadulterated, harmonica-abetted, folked-out Americana. But the band's raging power remains, delivered through Jay Farrar's imposing force-of-nature vocals and lyrics that stab at your soul. "What the hell are we all doing here? Making too much of nothing, or creating one unholy mess. An unfair study in survival, I guess..."

Farrar and Son Volt, live acoustic: