Hootenanny (The Replacements Album)

Hootenanny (The Replacements Album)

Hootenanny is 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, 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 a 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 guitar, and Westerberg on drums.

Outtakes from this album include: "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 seven additional tracks.