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Cracker
American rock band
Cracker is an American rock band formed in 1990 by lead singer David Lowery and guitarist Johnny Hickman. The band's first album Cracker was released in 1992 on Virgin Records; it included the single "Teen Angst ", which went to No. 1 on the U.S.
Modern Rock chart. The band's follow-up, the 1993 album Kerosene Hat included the hit songs "Low", "Get Off This" and "Euro-Trash Girl".
Cracker has released nine studio albums and several compilations, collaborations, solo projects and live albums. The band mix influences and sounds from rock, punk, grunge, psychedelia, country, blues and folk.
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Cracker is a U.S. alternative rock band led by singer David Lowery and guitarist Johnny Hickman. The two formed the band in 1991, and mixed influences and sounds from rock, punk, grunge, psychedelia, country, blues and folk.
The group released its self-titled debut album on major label Virgin in 1992, including the alternative hit single "Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now)" and another single in "Happy Birthday to Me". Cracker is perhaps best known for its gold-selling 1993 sophomore album, "Kerosene Hat", which includes the hit songs "Low", "Get On This", and "Euro-Trash Girl."
The exact day (February 21, 2006) that Cracker's prior major label, Virgin, released "Get On With It: The Best Of Cracker" without the group's consent or cooperation, Cracker released "Greatest Hits Redux", their own hits album with newly rerecorded versions of their own songs. Hilariously, the group also priced their own release cheaper than Virgin's compilation, undercutting the major label sales.
Over the decades, the group has rele
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Liner notes
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Cracker
1992 album
Tucson
1992 ep
Kerosene Hat
1993 album
wanted
What the World Needs Now
1994 album
Get Off This, Part 2
1994 ep
Get Off This, Part 1
1994 ep
The Golden Age
1996 album
Gentleman’s Blues
1998 album
Forever
2001 album
Countrysides
2003 album
O' Cracker Where Art Thou?
2003 album
Greenland
2006 album
Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey
2009 album
Berkeley to Bakersfield
2014 album
Records from MusicBrainz; covers from the Cover Art Archive.
"Low" is a song by American rock band Cracker. It was released in August 1993, as the lead single from their second studio album Kerosene Hat.
The song became a sleeper hit, reaching number 64 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in May 1994. Its biggest success was on the rock charts, reaching number three on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in November 1993 and number five on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart in March 1994.
Background
David Lowery has said that the band's label made him write a letter to radio stations denying that the song was about drugs, claiming that the repeated phrase "being stoned" was really "being stone." Lowery paraphrased a label executive as telling him, "I don't believe you and neither will anyone else, but there needs to be deniability and this is what we're gonna say."
Cover versions
In 2017, Lydia Lunch and Cypress Grove covered "Low" on their album Under the Covers.
In popular culture
"Low" was featured in the film The Perks of Being a Wallflower and its accompanying soundtrack. In addition, it was used in The Wolverine and episodes of Hindsight and Rectify. The B-side track "Whole Lotta Trouble" was featured on the soundtrack of the 1995 film Empire Records.
