| Product Summary | | Label: Emd/virgin | | UPC: 00724383901227 | | Release Date: 8/24/1993 | | Buy.com Sku: 60074981 | | Item#: MV27G5 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Low | ------ | | 2. Movie Star | ------ | | 3. Get Off This | ------ | | 4. Kerosene Hat | ------ | | 5. Take Me Down To The Infirmary | ------ | | 6. Nostalgia | ------ | | 7. Sweet Potato | ------ | | 8. Sick Of Goodbyes | ------ | | 9. I Want Everything | ------ | | 10. Lonesome Johnny Blues | ------ | | 11. Let's Go For A Ride | ------ | | 12. Loser | ------ | | 13. Silent | ------ | | 14. Silent | ------ | | 15. Hi-Desert Biker Meth Lab | ------ | | 16. Silent | ------ | | 69. Euro Trash Girl | ------ | | 88. Take Me (Back) To You | ------ | | 99. Kerosene Hat (Demo) | ------ |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Cracker: David Lowery (vocals, guitar); Johnny Hickman (guitar, background vocals); Davey Faragher (bass, background vocals); Phil Jones (drums, percussion); Michael Urbano (drums). | | Recorded at The Soundstage, Pioneertown, California in February & March 1993. | | With their second album Cracker have lost the smarmy self-righteousness that plagued their otherwise fine debut, replacing it with a surprisingly solid, rocking core. Kerosene Hat is David Lowery's least affected album yet -- its humor is no stranger than "Dead Flowers" by the Stones or "Fat Man in a Bathtub" by Little Feat, two groups that Cracker strongly recall throughout the album. Kerosene Hat is more blues- and country-based than their debut, but it sounds natural, since their songwriting has improved and they've grown tighter as a unit. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine |
| | Artist Overview | | Started by David Lowery of Camper van Beethoven and guitarist Johnny Hickman, Cracker originally aspired to (and nearly perfected) a smart-aleck take on southern-fried rock, with songs such as "I Hate My Generation" and the straight-rocking "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)." They scored their biggest hit with "Low" in 1993, but since the mid '90s have gradually faded from view, and left Virgin Records in 2003. With their new anonymity, Lowery and company have matured into a band that can pen a collection of elegiac Americana on one album and pull off a set of riotous country covers on the next. They even released an effective and surprising collection of bluegrass covers of their own songs with the jam band Leftover Salmon. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 08/24/1993 | | Original Release Date : 1993 | | Catalog ID : 39012 | | Label : Virgin Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00724383901227 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Spin (10/93, p.104)
- "...Cracker weaves the language of bluesy rock in a way that feels genuinely well-bred, even in decline....Cracker's thrills are deeply conservative..."Musician (9/93, p.72)
- "...KEROSENE HAT may be the year's most important rock 'n' roll album simply because it shows that the genre hasn't died of overuse--and, more importantly, that it doesn't deserve to..." NME (Magazine)
(6/11/94, p.33)
- 7 - Very Good - "...The music does the talking and the gags just make occasional, low-key interuptions....Yet they redeem themselves with a whole heap of trashy but soulful country-rock poses..." |
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