Countrysides (album)

Countrysides
Countrysides
Studio album of cover songs by Cracker
Released	October 7, 2003
Genre	Alternative country
Length	40:03
Label	BMG
Producer	David Lowery; John Morand;
Cracker chronology

ReleasedOctober 7, 2003

GenreAlternative country

Length40:03

LabelBMG

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AllMusic	^[1]
Blender	^[2]

Countrysides is Cracker's sixth studio album. The album mostly consists of cover versions of country songs with one new original song, "Ain't Gonna Suck Itself". Before the release of the album, Cracker had been touring under the name "Ironic Mullet" at various dive bars across the American South and in Alaska.

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No.	Title	Original artist (Year)	Length
1.	"Truckload of Art"	Terry Allen (1979)	3:42
2.	"Duty Free"	Ike Reilly (2001)	5:53
3.	"Up Against the Wall Redneck Mothers"	Ray Wylie Hubbard (1973)	4:09
4.	"Sinaloa Cowboys"	Bruce Springsteen (1995)	3:53
5.	"Family Tradition"	Hank Williams Jr. (1979)	4:42
6.	"The Bottle Let Me Down"	Merle Haggard (1966)	4:40
7.	"Reasons to Quit"	Merle Haggard (1983)	3:29
8.	"Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room"	Dwight Yoakam (1988)	3:46
9.	"Ain't Gonna Suck Itself"	Cracker (2003)	5:49

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David Lowery Johnny Hickman Bryan Howard CoCo Owens Pistol Stoessel Davey Faragher Bob Rupe Victor Krummenacher Michael Urbano David Lovering Johnny Hott Charlie Quintana Frank Funaro Thayer Sarrano
Studio albums	Cracker (1992) Kerosene Hat (1993) The Golden Age (1996) Gentleman's Blues (1998) Forever (2002) Countrysides (2003) Greenland (2006) Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey (2009) Berkeley to Bakersfield (2014)
Compilations	Garage d'Or (2000) O' Cracker Where Art Thou? (2003) Greatest Hits Redux (2006) Get On With It: The Best of Cracker (2006)
Singles	"Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)" "Low" "Euro-Trash Girl"

Countrysides (album)

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