Hootenanny (Альбом The Replacements)

1983 album by the Replacements

Hootenanny is the second studio album by the American rock band The Replacements, released on April 29, 1983, by Twin/Tone Records. The album received positive reviews from critics.

Hootenanny was mostly recorded from October 1982 to January 1983 at the Stark/Mudge Mobile Unit warehouse in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, which was described in the liner notes as "a warehouse in some godawful suburb north of Mpls". The tracks "Run It" and "Within Your Reach" were recorded at Blackberry Way,

Hootenanny is often regarded as the first release on which The Replacements began to branch out from the "breakneck punk" that characterized their earlier work, through the incorporation of various genres such as blues, country, rockabilly, and boogie. The surf instrumental "Buck Hill" takes its name from a small skiing area in Burnsville, Minnesota, just a few miles south of Minneapolis. "Mr. Whirly" is a 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.

Hootenanny received positive reviews from critics. Jon Young, in a 1983 Trouser Press review, said that the Replacements play "with all the delicacy of a garbage compactor," and that "their joyful noise may shock you, but it'll add excitement to your life." The album was ranked number 30 in The Village Voices 1983 Pazz & Jop critics' poll. In a retrospective review, Noel Murray of The A. V. Club felt that Hootenanny "brims with personality, and though The Replacements' real masterpieces were ahead of them, their second LP was a deck clearer that gave Westerberg the confidence to mature. It's just too bad that he never again made an album this straight up fun."