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Hootenanny
Studio album by The Replacements
Released	April 29, 1983
Recorded	Blackberry Way Studios Stark/Mudge Mobile Unit warehouse Oct. 1982 - Jan. 1983
Genre	Punk rock, College rock, Proto-grunge on "Willpower"
Length	31:06
Label	Twin/Tone Records
Producer	The Replacements, Peter Jesperson, Paul Stark
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (B+) link
The Replacements chronology
Stink (EP) (1982) Hootenanny (1983) Let It Be (1984)

Hootenanny was 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, Brooklyn Center, 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 an 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," 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, and Westerburg on drums.

Outtakes from this album include (but are not limited to): "Don't Get Married", "Ain't No Crime" and "Shoot Me, Kill Me". The original version of "Lovelines" is "Lookin' For Ya".

All songs by Paul Westerberg except as indicated:

Side One:

1. "Hootenanny" (Westerberg, Stinson, Stinson, Mars) – 1:52
2. "Run It" (Westerberg, Mars) – 1:11
3. "Color Me Impressed" – 2:25
4. "Willpower" – 4:22
5. "Take Me Down to the Hospital" – 3:47
6. "Mr. Whirly" (mostly stolen) – 1:53

Side Two:

1. "Within Your Reach" – 4:24
2. "Buck Hill" (Westerberg, Stinson, Mars) – 2:09
3. "Lovelines" (Westerberg, Stinson, Stinson, Mars, C.P. Readers) – 2:01
4. "You Lose" (Westerberg, Stinson, Stinson, Mars) – 1:41
5. "Hayday" – 2:06
6. "Treatment Bound" – 3:16

• Bob Stinson - lead guitar (except bass on "Hootenanny")
• Tommy Stinson - bass guitar (except 2nd guitar on "Hootenanny")
• Paul Westerberg - vocals and guitar (except drums on "Hootenanny" and all instruments on "Within Your Reach")
• Chris Mars - drums (except lead guitar on "Hootenanny")