Happy Hour: The South River Road Sessions

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Happy Hour: The South River Road Sessions
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ReleasedJune 22, 2010
Genre Country [1]
Length22:41
Label
Producer Michael Bradford, Rob Cavallo, Kid Rock, Uncle Kracker
Uncle Kracker chronology
Happy Hour
(2009)
Happy Hour: The South River Road Sessions
(2010)
Midnight Special
(2012)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Happy Hour: The South River Road Sessions is an EP by Uncle Kracker. It was released on June 22, 2010 under Atlantic Records. The EP features country versions of select tracks from Kracker's Happy Hour album released 2009, and "Letter to My Daughters" from his second album No Stranger to Shame . [1] South River Road is an actual road in Harrison Twp. MI where he grew up and attended high school. It has a review rating of 2.5. [1]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Smile"Jeremy Bose, Blair Daly, John T. Harding, Matthew Shafer3:31
2."Good to Be Me" (featuring Kid Rock)Harding, Brett James, Robert J. Ritchie, Shafer4:01
3."Me Again" (featuring Jesse Lee)Daly, Harding, Jesse Lee, Shafer3:41
4."I'm Not Leaving" Michael Bradford, Shafer4:34
5."Livin' the Dream" Josh Abraham, David Coverdale, Oliver Goldstein, Bernie Marsden, Shafer, Luke Walker3:47
6."Letter to My Daughters" David Allan Coe, Shafer3:07

Personnel

Chart performance

Chart (2010)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard 200 [2] 66
U.S. Billboard Country Albums [2] 9
U.S. Billboard Rock Albums [2] 17

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Heaney, Gregory. "Happy Hour: The South River Road Sessions review". Allmusic . Retrieved 1 December 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 "Chart listing for Happy Hour: The South River Road Sessions". Allmusic . Retrieved 1 December 2010.