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October 6, 2003

Cracker Go "Country"

New album features covers of Springsteen, Haggard
August 2, 2001

Camper Take On Fleetwood Mac

Cracker to release "Forever" in January
June 7, 2001

Cracker vs. Kracker

David Lowery talks Cracker. . . and Uncle Kracker
January 16, 2001

Cracker Get Crackin'

David Lowery begins work on next Cracker album

Recordings and Reviews

Countrysides

Cracker road-tested the eight twangy covers on Countrysides, with a 2002 series of honky-tonk shows under the name Ironic Mullet. Thankfully, the only ironic thing about the album is its unblinking lack of irony. The band sounds relaxed and swinging on reverent country waltz takes of boozin' and...

2003 RS: 3of 5 Stars

Gentleman's Blues

1998

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If only David Lowery really had been as giddy about selling out as he seemed, Cracker might have been the big slobbery raspberry in the face of alt-rock sanctimony he pretended it was. Cracker's rootsy backbeat thrust swaggered with a populist immediacy supposedly more democratic than the collegiate whimsy of Lowery's old band, much-lauded eclectic absurdists Camper Van Beethoven. Lowery declared,...

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