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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)
2. This Is Cracker Soul
3. I See the Light
4. Low
5. Get Off This
6. Sweet Potato
7. Euro-Trash Girl
8. Shake Some Action - (from "Clueless")
9. Sweet Thistle Pie
10. I'm a Little Rocket Ship
11. Big Dipper
12. Seven Days
13. Been Around the World
14. Be My Love - (previously unreleased)
15. Heaven Knows I'm Lonely Now - (previously unreleased)
16. Eyes of Mary - (previously unreleased)
DISC 2:
1. Surfbilly
2. Golden Age, The - (live)
3. You Ain't Going Nowhere - (live)
4. Hollywood Cemetary
5. Whole Lotta Trouble
6. I Want Out of the Circus - (live)
7. Steve's Hornpipe
8. Mr. Wrong - (live)
9. Sunday Train
10. Lonesome Johnny Blues - (live)
11. Rainy Days and Mondays
12. China
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Adam Duritz, Joan Osborne | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: David Lowery (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass); Joan Osbourne, Adam Duritz (vocals); Johnny Hickman (guitar, harmonica, background vocals); Mark Linkous (guitar, piano); David Immergluck (pedal steel guitar, background vocals); Chris Eubanks (cello); Kenny Margolis (accordion, piano, Mellotron); Paul Watson (trumpet); John Hobbs (piano); Benmont Tench, Charles Gillingham (keyboards); Davey Faragher, Bob Rupe (bass, background vocals); Miguel Urbiztondo, Frank Funaro (drums, percussion); Rick Jaeger, Jim Keltner, Michael Urbano, Josef Peters, Charlie Quintana, Eddie Bayers, Charlie Drayton, Al Esis (drums); Phil Jones, Johnny Hott (percussion); Jean McClain, Kristin Asbury, Shannon Worrell, Davey Faragher, Paul du Gre (background vocals).
Producers include: Don Smith, Dennis Herring, David Lowery, Mark Linkous, John Morand.
Engineers include: Don Smith, Rich Hasal, Paul Du Gre.
One of the few bands to successfully bridge the chasm between alternative and classic rock, Cracker spent the '90s studiously ignoring electronica and swing trends and instead recording brilliant country-flavored rock & roll. GARAGE D'OR captures this decade-long trip with a two-disc compilation of familiar Cracker hits, B-sides, covers, outtakes, and live recordings.
Disc 1 features Cracker's best-known material along with a trio of new tracks. Casual fans will recognize the simmering "Low" and the snarling "Teen Angst." Elsewhere, Lowery and musical cohort Johnny Hickman dabble in both rootsy American music ("7 Days," "I See The Light"), cover the Flamin' Groovies ("Shake Some Action"), and pay tongue-in-cheek homage to Peter Frampton ("Get Off This") and Foghat ("Sweet Thistle Pie"). Cracker's newer numbers have more of a technological sheen to them, ranging from the mechanized beat of "Be My Love" and the shimmering ambiance of the Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse) collaboration "Eyes Of Mary" to "Heaven Knows I'm Lonely," a dream-pop duet with Kristin Asbury. Disc 2 (limited to the first 75,000 copies) casts a wider net by including live Dylan covers ("You Ain't Going Nowhere"), runaway instrumentals ("Surf Billy"), and early demos dripping with Camper Van Beethoven-esque nuances ("Steve's Hornpipe").
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