Hootenanny, the band's second studio album, was released in April 1983.

Hootenanny was played on over two hundred radio stations across the country, with critics acclaiming the album ; The Village Voice < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Robert Christgau deemed it " the most critically independent album of 1983 ".

* The rock and roll band The Replacements released their second album in 1983, entitled Hootenanny on Twin / Tone Records ( see Hootenanny ( album )).