This week, I’m wrapping up a month chock full of 40th anniversary album releases with yet another — this time from alternative rock pioneers, The Replacements. I’ll be featuring the 1983 album Hootenanny, the second full-length release from the legendary Minneapolis band, known for their “heart-on-the-sleeve” rock songs and self-deprecating lyrics.

Recorded in a warehouse in Brooklyn Center, Minn., (described in the liner notes as “a warehouse in some godawful suburb north of Minneapolis”), Hootenanny saw the band branching out from the “breakneck punk” that characterized their earlier work and incorporating genres like blues, country, rockabilly, and boogie.

Program playlist, hour 1

Program playlist, hour 2