Countrysides

Countrysides
Studio album by Cracker
Released October 7, 2003
Recorded ???
Genre Alternative country
Length ???
Label BMG
Producer David Lowery
John Morand
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Cracker chronology
O' Cracker Where Art Thou?
(2003)
Countrysides
(2003)
Greatest Hits Redux
2006

Countrysides is Cracker's seventh album.

Track listing

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

Before the release of the album, Cracker had been touring under the name "Ironic Mullet" at various dive bars across the American South, and even Alaska. The songs, while mostly covers, they felt came to reflect on the political climate the country was facing at the time.