Cracker Live at the Hobart Jaycee's Fest, North Ridge Plaza

Today's Date In Music History: Cracker in Hobart, Indiana on July 3rd, 2008.

Cracker was formed by David Lowery (of Camper Van Beethoven fame) and his longtime friend Johnny Hickman in 1991.The band has been touring continually ever since and has established devoted following both in the U.S. (where fans refer to themselves as Crumbs) and throughout Europe.
Cracker mixes influences and sounds from rock, punk, alt-country, psychedelia, blues, and folk.

Highlights of this performance include Cracker favorites "Low" and "Teen Angst", as well as a cover of the Grateful Dead's "Loser".

Disc 1
1) Intro - 2) Teen Angst - 3) Movie Star - 4) Gimme Me One More Chance - 5) Mr. Wrong - 6) Lonesome Johnny Blues - 7) Sweet Thistle Pie - 8) One Fine Day - 9) Man In Me -10) Sweet Potato -11) This Is Cracker Soul -12) Loser -13) How Can I Live Without You
Disc 2
1) Euro-Trash Girl - 2) Riverside - 3)100 Flower power Maximum - 4) Infirmary - 5) Happy Birthday To Me - 6) Low - 7) Everybody Gets One - 8) Whole Lotta Trouble - 9) Saint Cajtean -10) Ballad Of Chas M.(I Need Better Friends) - 11) Get Off This

Play show here:

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300 Songs

-A song by song history of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven

David Lowery, founding member of Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven, has a new blog in which expounds upon 300 of his songs--one at a time!

Lowery explains,

"So i came up with this idea to randomly select a hundred or so songs and write a few comments about each of the songs. like: with whom i recorded, what the song is about, Or simply something funny or interesting that happened in the session. Nothing too in depth. Sometimes i'll also provide the lyrics and basic guitar chords for the fans who like that sort of thing."

From the latest Cracker album:



A Grateful Dead Cover:



A Classic:

*Related Posts*

Cracker Acoustic Duo

- Live at Moe's Alley in Santa Cruz, CA - April 1, 2009

Today's Date In Music History







Taped by: Todd Fleisher
Transferred by: Todd Fleisher


Disc 1
Set 1
01. Intro
02. One Fine Day
03. Sunrise In The Land Of Milk & Honey @
04. Been Around The World
05. Teen Angst
06. Guarded By Monkeys
07. Friends
08. Lonesome Johnny Blues
09. Turn On Tune In Drop Out @
10. Another Song About The Rain
11. Sweethearts #
12. All Her Favorite Fruit #$
13. Eurotrash Girl
14. Dr. Bernice

Disc 2
01. St. Cajetan
02. Crowd
Encore:
03. Big Dipper
04. Be My Love


Notes:
@ - acoustic debut
# - Greg Lisher on guitar
$ - Johnny on harmonica

(Download here)

Thanks to Cracker Acoustic Duo for allowing audience & soundboard recordings.

Previous Cracker posts

visit David Lowery's blog, 300 Songs

Today's Date In Music History:

Cracker - Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown Palace - September 8, 2007

Recorded live at the 3rd Annual Cracker-Camper Van Beethoven Family Reunion Campout in Pioneertown, CA.




1.) pre intro, 2.) intro, 3.) Kerosene Hat intro, 4.) Low, 5.) Movie Star, 6.) Get Off This, 7.) Kerosene Hat, 8.) Take Me Down To The Infirmary, 9.) Nostalgia, 10.) Sweet Potato
11.) Sick Of Goodbyes, 12.) I Want Everything, 13.) Lonesome Johnny Blues, 14.) Let's Go For A Ride, 15.) Loser, 16.) silent tracks, 17.) Eurotrash Girl, 18.) silent tracks, 19.) I Ride My Bike, 20.) encore break, 21.) encore intro, 22.) One Fine Day, 23.) introductions and acknowledgements, 24.) outtro

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"Yalla Yalla" - Cracker Does It For The Troops

Here's a short documentary film/music video depicting Cracker's tour of U.S. military bases in Iraq, from a post at David Lowery's 300 Songs blog.

Today's Date In Music History:

Camper Van Beethoven - September 12, 2008 - Pappy & Harriet's Pioneertown Palace

This return installment of Today's Date In Music History features Camper Van Beethoven recorded live at the 4th Annual Cracker-Camper Van Beethoven Family Reunion Campout in Pioneertown, CA, USA

Some of this sets' many highlights include "Militia Song"*, "Take The Skinheads Bowling", and a cover of Pink Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive".

Listen here:

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... and by the way, while you're reading this, you're missing this year's fest!

* "Militia Song lyrics":
"Studied mathematics in Berkely
Now I don't like society
Got me a little old shack in the woods
Gonna mail you out some explosive goods
They say my brother's insane and simple
But he lived in west Texas in a hole in the ground
I'm the only bomber that you'll ever need
Keep the commie Californians from repressing me "

Here's a related Cracker post.

"Baby come and spend some time with Mr. Wrong"

David Lowery of Cracker performs "Mr. Wrong" at WNRN in Charlottesville, Virginia on July 15, 2009.



Well, meet me by the river that goes nowhere.
Let me lay my sorry trip on you.
Won't you meet me by the river, little darling'?
I might just let you see my bad tattoo.

Well I was gonna bring you flowers, but I didn't.
It's the thought that counts and I think I'm a bit too broke.
But there's some change in my ashtray--maybe just enough to pay.
For a half pint of somethin', probably make us choke.

CHORUS:
Well you know I'd rather not go and meet your family.
They'd probably send me back where I belong.
Don't want to hear about Mr. Right.
'Cause he's out of town tonight.
Baby come and spend some time with Mr. Wrong.

I drive a one-eyed Malibu without a muffler.
And a tape deck that works if you kick it hard enough.
And baby if you like to read, I've got some great pornography.
And a ten pound flashlight rolling in the trunk.

CHORUS

Now, do you have a girlfriend and does she look as good as you?
Would she like to meet my brother?
He'll be out of jail in a month or two.

CHORUS

Where I come from they call me Mr. Wrong.

"Friends"

Cracker Accoustic Duo performs "Friends" at Shank Hall Milwaukee 2-17-2010 featuring David Lowery & Johnny Hickman.

Lyrics:

Well I'd never sleep with your ex-girlfriend
Even if she starts to flirt with me again.
Allow me apologize for my slightly wicked thoughts;
'Cause that's the kind of friend that you've got.

If a fight breaks out and you're the cause of it
In some redneck bar where you've been talking shit.
I would not forsake you later in that parking lot
'cause that's the kind of friend that you've got.

Well through the laughter and the tears,
we go stumbling through the years.

A bit dysfunctional well folks might say

Well I've got the dirt on you.

Hey, I've got plenty on you too.

So I pray we stay together all our days.

So when you're on a date
and you finally bring that girl home.
You put a little Captain Beefheart on the stereo
and you disconnect the phone.

Then I show up drunk and raving
and then I pass out on the spot.
'Cause that´s the kind of friend
That you've got.

Well through the laughter and the tears

we go stumbling through the years.

A bit dysfunctional well folks might say

You can say that again.

Well I've got the dirt on you.

Hey I've got plenty on you too;

So I pray we stay together all our days.

Oh dear lord

Yeah I pray we stay together all our days.

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"Erinstock"

Erin's Birthday Party aka "Erinstock", featuring Cracker (in Erin & Tim's living room!) on Saturday, May 16, 2009.



A separate audio recording of this is available here: http://www.archive.org/details/Cracker2009-05-16.KM140

Here's the setlist in case you want to skip around during the video:

01. intro
02. Turn On Tune In Drop Out
03. Happy Birthday to Me
04. I See the Light
05. Sweet Magdalena Of My Misfortune
06. Lonesome Johnny Blues
07. Mr. Wrong
08. Seven Days
09. Eurotrash Girl
10. Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey
11. Duty Free
12. Be My Love
13. I Could Be Wrong I Could Be Right
14. Friends
15. Nothing to Believe In
16. St. Cajetan
17. I Want Everything
18. Can I Take My Gun up to Heaven
19. Shiner Song
20. Up Against The Wall Redneck Mothers
21. One Fine Day
22. Gimme One More Chance
23. Low