Even when I don't think I'm writing, I'm writing. There's some part of my brain geared toward making songs up, and I know it's collecting things and I know when I get a moment to be by myself, that's when they come out.

Reprise did not consider the album commercially viable and was not interested in releasing the album. Wilco recorded twelve tracks for a sixth studio album entitled Sky Blue Sky which was released on May 15 2007. Also during this time Tweedy quit smoking marijuana after a particularly bad experience with some cannabis brownies.

Uncle Tupelo garnered enough support to earn a record deal and to tour nationally. The Plebes changed their name to The Primitives in 1984 and subsequently to Uncle Tupelo. After releasing four albums the band broke up in 1994 because of conflicts between Tweedy and Farrar.