Countrysides (album)

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Countrysides
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 7, 2003
Recorded???
Genre Alternative country
Length40:03
Label BMG
Producer David Lowery
John Morand
Cracker chronology
O' Cracker Where Art Thou?
(2003)
Countrysides
(2003)
Greatest Hits Redux
(2006)
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Countrysides is Cracker's sixth studio album.

Track listing

  1. "Truckload of Art" (Terry Allen) - 3:42
  2. "Duty Free" (Ike Reilly) - 5:53
  3. "Up Against the Wall Redneck Mothers" (Ray Wylie Hubbard) - 4:09
  4. "Sinaloa Cowboys" (Bruce Springsteen) - 3:53
  5. "Family Tradition" (Hank Williams, Jr.) - 4:42
  6. "The Bottle Let Me Down" (Merle Haggard) - 4:40
  7. "Reasons to Quit" (Merle Haggard) - 3:29
  8. "Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room" (Dwight Yoakam) - 3:46
  9. "Ain't Gonna Suck Itself" (David Lowery) - 5:49

Before the release of the album, Cracker had been touring under the name "Ironic Mullet" at various dive bars across the American South and in Alaska. Mostly covers, the songs reflect on the political climate of the time.

Contents

Personnel

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