The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.

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.