Uncle Kracker
72 and Sunny
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As Kid Rock's DJ and songwriting buddy, Uncle Kracker juices Rock's albums with redneck funk and can't-miss choruses. But on Seventy-two and Sunny, they're replaced by folkie simplicity and country-crossover schmaltz, with Kracker chasing the success of his 2002 cover of Dobie Gray's "Drift Away." So he duets with Nashville hitmaker Kenny Chesney on the cowboy ballad "Last Night Again" and hires Diane Warren for a lead single, "Rescue," that's stale cheese.
Uncle Kracker goes country. As with No Stranger to Shame, where he explored Motown and Memphis, the result is actually pretty good, which may surprise those who had him pegged as just another white rapper. 72 and Sunny
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