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| | Cracker (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Cracker comfortably mixes influences and sounds ranging from classic country music, psychedelia, punk and folk into their brand of "Americana" style rock. | | | The band's website once noted Cracker as "The only band to ever open for both The Grateful Dead and the Ramones," a unique distinction which is also indicative of the band's sound and style. | | | A new album, titled "Greenland", will be released in June 2006. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(band)
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| | Tucson Weekly: Cracker Crumbs (May 3 - May 9, 2001) |
| | Bands that had recorded albums on corporate dollars were told there just wasn't money in the budget to actually release them, and acts that hadn't produced albums that landed solely in the black wouldn't be given a chance to take another stab at it. | | | Cracker, the country-tinged straightforward rock band led by singer/guitarists David Lowery, formerly of Camper Van Beethoven, and Johnny Hickman, formerly of a bunch of supposedly decent bands you've never heard of, was one of the survivors. | | | When Cracker released its self-titled debut album in 1992, it sold a healthy amount of copies to both new fans--the album yielded a moderate hit in "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)"--and leftover Camper followers. |
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http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/2001-05-03/mus3.html
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| | CRACKER / COWBOY MOUTH |
| | The band is also releasing a 5 song CD in late January 2003 with the help of another New Orleans stalwart Barq’s root beer, to be followed by a lengthy road and radio campaign. | | | Having been the lead singer and guitarist for 80’s political pop/punk band Red Rockers, Griffith knew the music biz fairly well himself and added a musical flourish that was just right for the band’s sound as well as its spirit. | | | By 1991, the newly formed band had signed a recording contract with Virgin and enlisted the help of several drummers/percussionists (Jim Keltner, Rick Jaeger, and Phil Jones), issuing their self-titled debut in 1992. |
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http://www.irvingplaza.com/bands/bio.php?ID=1509
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| | Las Vegas SUN: Cracker's Lowery accustomed to odd collaborations |
| | Cracker is preparing its sixth full-length album, tentatively titled "Countryside," for a fall release. | | | The band's latest CD is actually a song-by-song reworking of Fleetwood Mac's 1979 record "Tusk," mostly recorded during Camper's heyday, with a few modern touches. | | | Don't be surprised if those golden Cracker oldies sound a bit different from their original album renditions, however. |
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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/text/2003/may/16/515091000.html
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| | Splendid: Features: Cracker |
| | It's been four years since the band's two founders, singer-guitarist David Lowery and singer/lead guitarist Johnny Hickman, have recorded an album together, and many of their waiting fans were worried that the band had played its last. | | | Bob was in for there for a Silos compilation, Mark was in for the first Sparklehorse album, and I was in for the second or third Cracker album. | | | I mean, the whole Cracker soul feel from the first album is present in "Ain't It Strange". |
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http://www.splendidezine.com/features/cracker
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| | Cracker, meanwhile, is no longer recording for a major label, and their latest release, a collection of country covers called Countryside, has been lauded for its free-spirited and ramshackle approach to music-making. | | | Cracker songs like "I Hate My Generation," "Eurotrash Girl" and "Teen Angst" "What the world needs now is another folk singer / Like I need a hole in my head" made it clear that Lowery's lyrical wit was as acidic as ever. | | | Led by David Lowery, Cracker entered the pop-music universe as heir to the legacy of Camper van Beethoven, a 1980s "surrealist absurdist folk" band that had inspired fierce allegiance on college campuses throughout the country. |
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http://free-times.com/archive/coverstorarch/3rivers_2004/3river_cracker.html
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| | Cracker |
| | While the band’s name may be uncomplicated, describing its music is. Hickman explained, “the music of Cracker is difficult to classify. | | | He added that Jerry Garcia, who expressed to band members he was pleasantly surprised by their performances, had Cracker open because he was a fan of “Euro Trash Girl,” one of the band’s defining tunes. | | | The easily identifiable band, known for drenching its music with American colloquialisms and a twisted, ironic sense of humor, is back on the road in support of two recent releases — one with Colorado’s own Leftover Salmon. |
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http://www.marqueemag.com/11_03/Cracker.html
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| | Jambands.com Features The Secret (Jam Band) Life of Cracker 2002-09-25 |
| | Cracker’s self-titled 1992 debut was a moderate hit, complete with the college-rock anthem, "Teen Angst (What the World Need’s Now).” 1993’s follow-up, Kerosene Hat, yielded a surprise commercial charter with the song "Low," and temporarily catapulted the band into spotlight-fame. | | | If Cracker is an untraditional band, Lowery and Hickman are an untraditional songwriting team. | | | Cracker was brought back into the jam band consciousness in 2001, when moe. |
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http://www.jambands.com/Features/content_2002_09_25.07.phtml
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| | Amazon.com: Get on With It: The Best of: Music: Cracker |
| | Cracker's own "Redux" are mostly re-recorded versions of the old songs, and the added accordion, keyboards and new guitar solos are unnecessary. | | | I say that the band might not want it that way, because they apparently hold a bit of grudge against their ex-label, and have released their own collection of their previous hits, all in re-recorded versions. | | | As a means of capitalizing on the band's past success, Virgin saw fit to release this collection of the band's greatest hits, and although the band might not want to hear me say this, it is undeniably excellent. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000E1Z6HM?v=glance
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| | Cracker: Gentleman's Blues: Pitchfork Review |
| | Over the past six years, Cracker has released a bit less than a handful of albums to roughly the same response: first, a legion of avid fans greet the album with high praise. | | | And while the band's music may not be as experimental or inventive as Camper Van Beethoven's, it is most certainly as unique. | | | While a few of his songs grace each of the band's earlier releases, his writing here (aside from the throwaway "Hold of Myself") is his best. |
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http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/c/cracker/gentlemans-blues.shtml
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| | Analog Cracker |
| | Noxious- Punk band consisting of Memphet, Clay Sweatt, Spaarky, and Mike. | | | 252- 252 is the only other band in the Boaz area not consisting of Memphet or Brandon Starr that are worth a shit. | | | Clutch- this is one of my favorite bands, and the inspiration behind ANALOG CRACKER. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/music2/ANALOGCRACKER/linx.html
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| | Leftover Salmon finds success in improvisation (printable version) |
| | But don’t expect a note-by-note remake of the Cracker songs. | | | Garrison was pleased to announce that the band had just finished mastering its newest album, “Hollerwood,” scheduled for a Sept. 9 release. | | | In the case of the band Leftover Salmon, hanging with David Lowery and Johnny Hickman of Cracker, it created “O Cracker, Where Art Thou?” The 10-track CD contains 10 Cracker songs with Lowery singing, Hickman playing guitar and Leftover Salmon filling in the rest. |
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http://www.rgj.com/news/printstory.php?id=45569
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| | Cracker - about |
| | A lot of the songs are about being in a band; self-mocking our complaints, and celebrating the weird stuff that needs to be celebrated. | | | I didn't even realize it until we were mixing the album, when someone said 'oh, it's a concept album about being in a band.'" | | | Describing Gentleman's Blues, Cracker's new album on Virgin Records, David Lowery admits "this record kind of encompasses everything we're about, and it includes elements from our three prior albums. |
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| | MetroActive Music Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven |
| | Taco Bell plays "Low" from the band's second album to improve the taste of their chalupas. | | | You can't be in an underground band all your life. | | | Camper Van Beethoven is gone, as are parts of Santa Cruz, but the essence of the band's music lives on. |
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http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/02.02.00/cracker-0005.html
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| | Interview with David Lowery of Cracker (NY Rock) |
| | This is my tenth album [fourth with Cracker]; I think that hardly a songwriter has enough experience to fill more than two albums with autobiographical songs. | | | It seems to be a Cracker tradition to work with a number of guest artists on your albums. | | | Besides, it’s pretty much music journalism that cares about genres, labels stuff. |
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http://www.nyrock.com/interviews/cracker_int.htm
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| | Entertainment Ave! The Concert Hall - A concert review of Cracker and The Cranberries. |
| | Sure, you hear Cracker sometimes on the same station here in Chicago, but the two bands, unless you are a lover of almost all types of music such as myself, just don't attract the same crowd. | | | The crowd was just starting to fill in for Cracker, and much of them recognized the couple of hits, but this is a band more about music | | | A lot of classic Cranberries, and even a new song or two, cruising into the encore, and she and the band kept this crowd happy till the end. |
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http://entertainmentavenue.com/concert_hall/reviews/c/cracker/cr081596.htm
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| | Camper Van Beethoven/Cracker/MOD |
| | The band's fourth album is more of the same: slickly produced, super-competent, late-period Stones-based AOR. | | | Rock music pretty much hit bottom in the early 1980s, with pretentious hair band pop and blustery, brain-dead corporate rock filling the airwaves. | | | A seemingly endless series of spin-off acts recorded albums after the original band dissolved. |
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| | Cracker's Virgin Discography |
| | Their dulcet overtones signal a new direction for the band; and a striking one at that. | | | The album is the creation of a team with well-honed songwriting skills and a knack for kicking ass in the musicianship department. | | | The band adds strings to the mix, some wailing female vocals courtesy of Joan Osborne, and kicks out with a startlingly assured and mature work. |
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| | Jazz News: Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Creates New Record Label |
| | “They are the band that first brought Cajun music and food to the attention of the nation. | | | As an example of a band that deserves more attention, Davis pointed to a CB Music recording of the original Seldom Scene, a Washington, DC bluegrass band. | | | The label, CB Music, Ltd. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cracker Barrel, and is devoted to an array of traditional music. |
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| | Amazon.com: Cracker: Music: Cracker |
| | Other Cracker albums sold better (i.e., Kerosene Hat), but to me, this is by far still THE best Cracker album. | | | I was hoping it would be included in the newly released O Cracker Where Art Thou, with Lowery on vocals and polyethnic-cajun-slamgrass band Leftover Salmon backing him up. | | | It is probably one of my 10 all-time favorite songs and is, IMHO, by far the greatest song Cracker has recorded. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000WIE?v=glance
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| | Rock band Cracker doesn’t want to play for carp in Reno |
| | Rest assured, the band you’ll hear this weekend at the Hilton will be Cracker, playing not only songs from “Countrysides,” but from the five previous studio albums as well. | | | On its newest album, Cracker has explored its inner country band to the fullest, playing loose, piss-n-vinegar covers of songs by Dwight Yoakam, Terry Allen and Bruce Springsteen. | | | Occasionally the band got busted playing a Cracker song. |
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http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2003/11/21/57336.php
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| | Cracker--Gentleman's Blues |
| | Though their previous albums have their moments of great pop/rock songcraft, this is the first time the band's consistently gotten it right. | | | Don't worry Cracker fans, Lowery's not gone all Chicago shuffles or Delta acoustic on us, but there's a bit of down to earth Stones-ish blues rocking incorporated into their pop/rock/country/punk/whatever approach which makes this album their best yet. | | | As the only band to open for both the Grateful Dead and the Ramones, Cracker holds a self-proclaimed unique position in rock and roll. |
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| | Ink 19 :: Cracker |
| | Kudos to Cooking Vinyl for issuing an album from a band that Virgin never deserved. | | | With the diplomatic mission having failed, the band was left in the lurch with a half-finished record and a growing list of resentments. | | | Musically, Countrysides is more like the first Cracker album than anything the band has released since, far more countrified than it is rock or alt-pop. |
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http://www.ink19.com/issues/december2003/musicReviews/musicC/cracker.html
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| | Rolling Stone : Cracker Get Crackin' |
| | The band's as-yet-untitled studio recording will be their first since 1998's Gentleman's Blues, though they released Garage d'Or, a compilation of some of the band's best-known tracks combined with B-sides and other assorted rarities, in March 2000. | | | Lowery previously worked with the band, producing their third studio album, This Desert Life, in 1999. | | | David Lowery begins work on next Cracker album |
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| | Cracker Explores Its 'Countrysides' |
| | The original idea for the disc had the band change its focus from being a rock act with country or Americana roots to instead approach the new songs as a country band with rock roots -- while maintaining that same "Cracker attitude," Lowery says in the film. | | | But, as the band toured and got further into the project, Lowery says the album changed. | | | While he says most alt-country albums typically focus on the "cerebral, introspective side of country," in the same way as those written by the Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers, "Countrysides" was meant to deal with "the rednecks, the s***kickers, the drunks, the cranks, the weirdos and the clowns -- the funny songs, the redneck songs." |
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| | I like it and think it is a good choice that the band has made. | | | She was a little low key, but I heard from David they gave Brandy a crash course in Cracker songs - she had to learn 45 songs in just 4 days. | | | They are a local DC area band though, and they might just make it big soon. |
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| | The initial pressing of Garage D'Or is tentatively scheduled to come with a bonus disc of live tracks, B-sides and soundtrack songs previously unavailable on Cracker releases, according to Haring. | | | Krummenacher and Lisher continued playing together in their art-rock side project, Monks of Doom, while Segel released a solo album. | | | It'll be good to bring it back into focus." Although the band's breakup was acrimonious, "they've all grown up since then," Haring said. |
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| | Hear/Say: America's College Music Magazine - Reviews - Albums - Cracker: Forever |
| | Formed by singer/guitarist David Lowery and guitarist Johnny Hickman over a decade ago, the band made its mark with "Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)," a not-quite-novelty song that introduced Cracker's zesty, modern folk-rock to the world in 1992. | | | The album feels efficient and uncluttered even as it features a huge cast of guest musicians, in addition to the band members (Lowery, Hickman, keyboardist Kenny Margolis, drummer Frank Funaro and bassist Brandy Wood). | | | The song's energy seems to vanquish this horrible person and its cheerfulness is far more malevolent than any nu-metal band's howls of hatred. |
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http://www.hearsay.cc/reviews/albums/05-06-01-02/Cracker.html
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| | Open Directory - Arts: Music: Bands and Artists: C: Cracker |
| | Entertainment Ave: Cracker and The Cranberries - Review of a concert at The New World Music Theatre in Tinley Park, Illinois. | | | Virgin Records: Cracker - Features exclusive audio, video, and special events. | | | CrackerWeb - Information, complete discographies, official photographs, lyrics, tablature, and MP3s from Cracker and related bands. |
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| | Monday 27th Feb saw alt-rock legends Cracker releasing their "Greatest Hits &; album after years of persistent requests by a legion of their devoted fans. Available to order now.Read more... |
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| | Internet Archive: Details: Live at Bonnaroo Music festival on 2004-06-13 |
| | the recording is not bad, definetly a real solid show for cvb and cracker, you can tell they were happy to be playing there. | | | The msuic is great nonetheless and everyone should find something they like about this band. | | | The set is solid, but the recording quality takes the rating down a few notches. |
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| | Welcome to KennyMargolis.com |
| | In addition to his personal projects with his zydeco rock band, Lucky 7 and Joe Hurley & Rogue's March/the Gents, Margolis has recorded and/or toured with Elliott Murphy, Camper Van Beethoven, The Smithereens, The Silos, and most recently with Willy DeVille again as well as... | | | Features newly recorded versions of Cracker hits & favorites. | | | Looking forward to the June 2006 of Cracker's long awaited CD of new songs,"Greenland" |
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| | Rolling Stone : Cracker |
| | Then again -- and this is what I like to believe -- maybe Lowery was so damn pumped up because that very morning, his band's fourth and most inventive album, Gentleman's Blues, was hitting store shelves everywhere. | | | Cracker's David Lowery sauntered onstage Tuesday night equipped with a peculiar shit-eatin' grin and some extra crunch in his Tennessee-whiskey vocals. | | | "So please don't take advantage of us." The down-to-earth band, however, was anything but tipsy, feverishly pumping out jangly, earthy tunes 'til everyone in-house was properly fed. |
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| | This is Cracker Soul Dot Org |
| | As the page's title indicates this page is from a fan's perspective, and so you might consider it somewhat biased... | | | I made some changes to the About the Site and About the Band pages, as well as to the Trading page and some of the Links and Related Bands info. | | | This page is here because we feel the need to pay homage to our favorite band. |
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| | Cracker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Cracker (computing), a person who engages in illegal system cracking or software cracking, circumventing computer security systems; also known as a black hat hacker | | | Cracker (U.S. television), the U.S. remake of the British television series | | | Cracker (food), a thin, crisp, edible wafer, usually salty rather than sweet (also called "biscuit") |
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| | Five musicians make up the group that plays a well rounded mix of the blues including tunes by Muddy Waters and Jonny Lang, and titles such as Stormy Monday, Caledonia, Let the Good Times Roll and many more. | | | Featured as a Fort Myers News-Press "Best Bet", Cracker Blues is a working band, giving the audience something new, yet founded in the blues tradition. | | | Cracker Blues, a Southwest Florida high energy blues band, has appeared at many large local events, including the Edison Festival Block Party, Taste of the Town and Buckingham Outdoor Blues Festivals. |
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| | Camper Van Beethoven |
| | Warning: This site contains large quantities of Cracker and Magnetic Motorworks |
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| | Florida Cracker: Strike Up The Band |
| | Nothing says "Cold War victory celebration" like the U.S. Army band playing "The Stars and Stripes Forever" inside the Kremlin. | | | I wish President Reagan could have been there. |
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| | JamBase Cracker Shows |
| | Be sure to check the band and venue official websites to confirm info! | | | :: TELL A FRIEND ABOUT THIS BAND :: |
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