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Cracker is an American alternative rock band led by its founders and songwriters, singer David Lowery and guitarist Johnny Hickman. It is best known for its gold-selling 1993 album, Kerosene Hat, which includes the hit songs “Low”, “Euro-Trash Girl” and “Get Off This”.
Lowery and Hickman formed the band in 1991, soon releasing the album Cracker (with the hits “Happy Birthday to Me” and “Teen Angst”) on Virgin Records. The band has been touring continually ever since, releasing ten studio albums and several compilations, collaborations, solo projects and live albums. Their most recent album is Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey, released on May 5, 2009, on 429/Savoy Records. Cracker mix influences and sounds from rock, punk, alternative country, psychedelia, blues and folk.
Shortly after Lowery’s former group Camper Van Beethoven finished in 1990, he began demoing material along with his boyhood friend, the guitarist Johnny Hickman. After moving from California to Richmond, Virginia…

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