Gentleman's Blues

Gentleman's Blues
Studio album by Cracker
Released	August 25, 1998
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	73:02
Label	Virgin
Producer	Don Smith
Cracker chronology
The Golden Age (1996)The Golden Age1996 Gentleman's Blues (1998) Garage D'Or (2000)Garage D'Or2000

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Gentleman's Blues is Cracker's fourth studio album, released in 1998. It would be the band's final album for Virgin Records.

Cracker frontman David Lowery said that the album's name arose when guitarist Johnny Hickman heard him playing a tune on the piano and observed that it sounded like an old Southern gentleman trying to play the blues.^[2]

Track listing

1. "Good Life" (Lowery, Hickman) - 3:50
2. "Seven Days" (Lowery, Hickman) - 4:24
3. "Star" (Lowery, Hickman) - 3:21
4. "James River" (Lowery) - 5:03
5. "My Life Is Totally Boring Without You" (Lowery, Hickman, Rupe) - 3:17
6. "Been Around the World" (Lowery) - 5:02
7. "The World Is Mine" (Lowery, Hickman) - 3:45
8. "Lullabye" (Lowery) - 4:59
9. "Waiting for You Girl" (Lowery, Hickman) - 4:01
10. "Trials & Tribulations" (Hickman) - 3:01
11. "Wild One" (Lowery, Hickman, Rupe) - 4:25
12. "Hold of Myself" (Hickman) - 3:57
13. "Gentleman's Blues" (Lowery, Hickman) - 4:58
14. "I Want Out of the Circus" (Lowery) - 4:53
15. "Wedding Day" (Hickman) - 3:47
16. "Hallelujah" (Lowery) - 4:10
17. [Silence]
18. "1-202-456-1414" (the touch-tone phone number for the White House)^[3] - :08
19. [Silence]
20. "1-202-514-8688" (a U.S. Department of Justice phone number, formerly held by Ken Starr)^[4] - :08
21. [Silence]
22. "1-310-289-4459" (presently, the phone number for Beverly Hills psychotherapist Julia Kantor)^[5] - :12
23. [Silence]
24. "Cinderella" (Lowery) - 5:03

Tracks after 16 "Hallelujah" are all hidden tracks. Track 24 features singer LP

Personnel

• David Lowery – vocals, guitar
• Johnny Hickman – lead guitar, vocals
• Bob Rupe – bass, vocals
• Frank Funaro – drums

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