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Track Listing
1. Intro
2. Better Days
3. What 'Chu Lookin at?
4. Follow Me
5. Heaven - (featuring Kid Rock & Paradime)
6. Steak 'N Shrimp
7. Who's Your Uncle?
8. Whiskey & Water
9. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
10. Aces & 8s
11. You Can't Take Me
Album Notes
Personnel: Uncle Kracker (rap vocals); Kid Rock (guitar, programming, turntables, background vocals); Kenny Olson, Jason Krause (guitar); Lynn Owsely (pedal steel guitar); James Montgomery (harmonica); Jimmie Bones (keyboards, background vocals); Michael Bradford (bass, programming, background vocals); Stefanie Eulinberg (drums).
Kid Rock plays the Dr. Dre role as his protege Uncle Kracker is unleashed upon the music world with DOUBLE WIDE. The album opens with a skit in which Rock gives career and "health" advice to a seemingly humble Uncle Kracker, and melts into a world of live instrumentation, old school hip-hop rhyming, and very hot beats.
"Better Days" has Uncle Cracker doing his best ZZ Top/Billy Gibbons, with bluesy, gravelly vocalizing. "Follow Me" has a neo-funky shuffle that evokes bands such as The Getaway People and The Push Stars, while "Heaven" mixes East Coast-inspired beats with a country-flavored chorus that's catchy as hell. "Steaks & Shrimp" offers old-school posturing and rhyming while "Who's Your Uncle?" is surely Uncle Cracker's "Bawitdaba," and his mission statement of domination is clear. "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" features instantly likeable pop choruses and "Aces & 8's" oddly combines techno influences with a C&W flavor. DOUBLE WIDE will most likely take Uncle Cracker from the trailer park to the big stages.
Industry Reviews
...An unexpected pleasure: a multi-textured melding of water-sprinkler pop, amiable rapping, free-flowing hip-hop, and blues-rock brawn....tastier than an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord... - Rating: A a
Entertainment Weekly (07/07/2000)
3 stars out of 5 - ...Very close to [producer, Kid Rock's] previous efforts....exhibiting a neat easy-going reluctance to rock out...
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