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Track Listing
1. Trucker Anthem
2. Forever
3. Lay It on Me
4. Cocky
5. What I Learned Out on the Road
6. I'm Wrong, But You Ain't Right
7. Lonely Road of Faith
8. You Never Met a White Boy Quite Like Me
9. Picture - (featuring Sheryl Crow)
10. I'm a Dog
11. Midnight Train to Memphis
12. Baby Come Home
13. Drunk in the Morning
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Sheryl Crow, Snoop Dogg | | Producer: | Kid Rock | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Kid Rock (vocals, guitar, bass); Sheryl Crow (vocals, 12-string acoustic guitar, bass); Jimmie Bones (vocals, harmoncia, organ, keyboards); Snoop Dogg, Uncle Kracker, Misty Love, Shirley Hayden, (vocals); Jason Krause, Kenny Olson (guitar); Matt O'Brien (bass); Stefanie Eulinberg (drums).
Recorded at Clarkston Chophouse Studios, Detroit, Michigan.
Kid Rock's unique blend of Midwestern rock & roll, rap, and R&B gets another airing with COCKY, which features a plethora of road tunes, who's-the-baddest cuts, and straight-ahead drinking songs. The slow, greasy grooves of "You Never Met a Motherf**cker Quite Like Me" contrast violently with the Detroit Rock City raunch of "I'm a Dog," which itself stands in stark contrast to the first half of "Midnight Train to Memphis," an atypical, steel guitar-accompanied ballad.
You don't come to Kid Rock for subtlety (the last cut, WCSR, featuring Snoop Dogg, is proof of that). He's a Midwestern rapper who wishes he was in Lynyrd Skynrd--and who could probably make a pretty good job of it. The straight-ahead rock tunes swing mightily courtesy of drummer Stefanie Eulinberg, and Rock has his bad-ass rap act down cold here, though how much longer he can keep it up is another question for another time.
Industry Reviews
...An enjoyably bad-ass record...
Mojo (02/01/2002)
...A similar blend of low-rider hip-hop and strip-mall heavy metal, flavoring its Camaro-ready jams with the occasional turntable wika-wika, Steven Tyler yowl or tasty guitar lick...you have to at least admire the breadth of his vision... - Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly (11/23/2001)
3 stars out of 5 - ...A massive banging victory....Rock self-conciously builds on his badass-hick-with-a-heart-of-gold image...
Rolling Stone (01/17/2002)
3 out of 5 stars - ...songs take rock and rop ethics and enthusiastically smash them together...
Q (01/01/2002)
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