Uncle Kracker
72 and Sunny
Album Review
Record Label: Lava Records
Released: 2004
Album Review
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.
- CHRISTINA HOARD
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