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Every fall, Austin looks forward to ACL Fest, and each year, there's always a point where two of your favorite bands are playing on different sides of the park at the exact same time. ACL Band Clash is a weekly series in which Austinist scribes Paige Maguire and Tom Thornton examine the worst ACL scheduling clashes, and try to provide good advice on finding a resolution. Well, good advice might be a stretch, but...

There are times when it is difficult to look at a band without thinking of what might have been, and Son Volt is undoubtedly one of them. When the wildly influential alt.country group Uncle Tupelo disbanded into two camps, Son Volt was one resulting act. The other was Wilco. In 1995, the Jay Farrar-led Son Volt released their debut album Trace, one of the best albums of the 1990's bar none. At the time, it seemed that Farrar had trumped Jeff Tweedy's Wilco, whose debut A.M. is probably the weakest offering in their catalog. In the decade since, Tweedy has proven far more musically adventurous, while Farrar has essentially churned out diluted and inferior versions of the wonderful Trace.

Jeff Tweedy is truly a legend in his own time. Occupying the same enviable status as musical luminaries like Thom Yorke and Will Oldham, Tweedy is both prolific and sought after by fans, critics, and fellow musicians alike. It seems the man, with his smoke-addled voice and beat poetry-inspired lyrics, can do no wrong, even as his music has gotten more confounding and restless in recent years.

Jeff Tweedy is one of the most influential songwriters in America. He has jumped from co-founding Uncle Tupelo with Jay Farrar and helping create the alt.country movement of the 90's to multiple incarnations of Wilco, leaving both some amazing work and a lot of disgruntled collaborators in his wake.

Well shut our mouths and call us Uncle Tupelo! Austin roughnecks San Saba County have released a stellar new LP proving that Alt-Country is not only alive and well, it's rummaging through your liquor cabinets and throwing up on your cat. It's Not The Fall That Hurts is an ambitious bounty, bursting at the seams with great tracks. Released on India Records, the San Saba boys (and girl?) have crafted what is a worthy addition to the lexicon of subverted twang.

In case you were not one of the lucky folks to get in to see Jenny Lewis last night at The Parish, fret not. We have your alt-folk/country singer-songwriter fix. Eclectone Records is having a showcase tonight at Room 710, featuring Big Ditch Road, Charlie Parr, Mike Nicolai and Martin Devaney. The night is sure to provide a great setting for sipping some Lone Star and conjuring the perfect mental landscape for all of those Americana-y things we love so much, like the sound of a pedal-steel, the open road and bittersweet love lost and found. And since we just wouldn't feel right without knowing you were there, our good friends over at Vamp Music Source are letting us give away one guest list spot (+1) to one of our lovely readers. Be the first to email us (editors@austinist.com) with the name of five other Vamp artists and the names of two of the founding members of Uncle Tupelo, and you are in.