OK. This is hard to say, but.., I finally bought a Cracker album I don't like. Countrysides is country/honky-tonk mix of Cracker's least interesting or entertaining work ever. As much as I like the country-leaning songs on previous albums, this really didn't rock my boat. They seemed to be straying away from country altogether with Forever, but if it's tears in beers they were going for here, they got it. They really took the alt out of alt-country.
Having that said, I really wish I'd gone with the album I knew would be good, O Cracker Where Art Thou, a collaboration with Leftover Salmon. Maybe it's the bluegrass that works, and the wannabe throwback to the Eagles that just doesn't.
Posted by cmwillis at October 6, 2004 10:56 PM | TrackBack