Gentleman’s Blues by Cracker

Gentleman's Blues, Cracker's fourth studio album, came out on Virgin in 1998, and the title tells its own story. David Lowery was playing a tune on the piano when Johnny Hickman, his partner since they started the band in 1990, said it reminded him of some elderly Southern gent having a go at the blues, and the name stuck.

That's a fair description of the whole record's shambling charm. Cracker had always thrown rock, country, blues, psychedelia and folk into the same pot, and here, with Bob Rupe still in the lineup, they let things sprawl, Lowery's wry voice up front and Hickman's guitars wandering off down back roads. "Been Around the World" sounds road-worn and in no particular hurry.

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