No Stranger to Shame

No Stranger to Shame
Studio album by Uncle Kracker
Released	August 27, 2002
Recorded	2001-2002
Genre	Rock, country pop, alternative rock, rap rock, pop rock
Length	50:10
Label	Lava Records
Producer	Michael Bradford, Uncle Kracker, Executive Producer Kid Rock
Uncle Kracker chronology
Double Wide (2000) No Stranger to Shame (2002) Seventy Two and Sunny (2004)
Singles from No Stranger to Shame
"In a Little While" Released: September 16, 2002 "Drift Away" Released: March 17, 2003 "Memphis Soul Song" Released: 2003

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	B− [2]
Los Angeles Times	[3]

No Stranger to Shame is the follow-up album to Uncle Kracker's double-platinum Double Wide. It is currently the only Uncle Kracker album to have two charting singles on the Billboard Hot 100 (In a Little While & Drift Away).

Track listing

• All songs composed by Uncle Kracker (credited as Matthew Shafer) and Mike Bradford unless noted.

1. "Keep It Comin'" – 3:21
2. "Thunderhead Hawkins" – 3:47
3. "In a Little While" – 4:09
4. "I Wish I Had a Dollar" – 4:03
5. "Drift Away" (Mentor Williams) – 4:15
6. "Baby Don't Cry" – 4:27
7. "I Do" – 3:11
8. "Memphis Soul Song" (Martin Gross, Shafer, Bradford) – 3:57
9. "I Don't Know" – 3:57
10. "To Think I Used to Love You" – 3:28
11. "Letter to My Daughters" (David Allan Coe, Shafer, Bradford) – 3:08
12. "No Stranger to Shame" – 8:27

Notes and trivia

• A song entitled After School Special begins at the 4:41 mark of the title track on the explicit version of the album, but the title song originally ended at 3:41.

• "Keep It Comin'" was used in the video games Project Gotham Racing 2 and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2, and for commercials for Six Flags Theme Parks.

• Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray provided background vocals on the title track.

• "Thunderhead Hawkins" refers to an alter-ego of country music singer Hank Williams, Jr., which the song is about.

• A remix of "To Think I Used to Love You" is featured on the CD soundtrack to the film Sweet Home Alabama.

• "Drift Away" features Dobie Gray, who previously had a major hit with the song, in a vocal duet.

Personnel

• Richard Baker- piano
• Jimmie Bones- organ, piano, background vocals
• Mike Bradford- bass guitar, drums, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, background vocals
• Dobie Gray- vocals on "Drift Away"
• Beth Hart- background vocals
• Jerry Hey- trumpet
• Dan Higgins- saxophone
• Jimmy Johnson- bass guitar
• Russ Kunkel- drums
• Mark McGrath- vocals on "No Stranger to Shame"
• Dean Parks- electric guitar
• Larry Paxton- upright bass
• Bill Reichenbach Jr.- saxophone
• Uncle Kracker- lead vocals
• Wanda Vick- dobro, fiddle, mandolin

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