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John Stirratt is the bassist and multi-instrumentalist for Wilco, and The Autumn Defense. Stirratt was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on November 26, 1967 and grew up in nearby Mandeville. He attended Mandeville High School and the University of Mississippi. He played regularly around the Southeastern U.S. with The Hilltops, a band based in Oxford, Mississippi, that included his twin sister Laurie Stirratt and her husband Cary Hudson. It was during this time he met and befriended the band Uncle Tupelo and supported them on tours of the East and Midwest. After the breakup of The Hilltops in... MORE

John Stirratt is the bassist and multi-instrumentalist for Wilco, and The Autumn Defense. Stirratt was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on November 26, 1967 and grew up in nearby Mandeville. He attended Mandeville High School and the University of Mississippi. He played regularly around the Southeastern U.S. with The Hilltops, a band based in Oxford, Mississippi, that included his twin sister Laurie Stirratt and her husband Cary Hudson. It was during this time he met and befriended the band Uncle Tupelo and supported them on tours of the East and Midwest. After the breakup of The Hilltops in 1990 he recorded a record under the name The Gimmecaps and briefly joined Lafayette, LA band The Bluerunners before joining Uncle Tupelo in 1992 as bassist/guitarist on their last album Anodyne in 1993. After the breakup of Uncle Tupelo, he rejoined Jeff Tweedy, Ken Coomer and Max Johnston to found Wilco in 1994. He went on with Tweedy to be the only founding member to contribute to all their releases. Stirratt joined Wilco members Jay Bennett and Ken Coomer to form Courtesy Move, an early Wilco side project that recorded an album in late 1996 that was never released. He formed The Autumn Defense LESS