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<h1>Cracker (band)</h1><p>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Cracker</strong> is an American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">rock</a> band, formed in 1990 by lead singer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lowery_(musician)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">David Lowery</a> and guitarist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Hickman" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Johnny Hickman</a>. The band's first album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Cracker</em></a> was released in 1992 on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Records" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Virgin Records</a>; it included the single "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Angst_(What_the_World_Needs_Now)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)</a>", which went to #1 on the U.S. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Rock_Tracks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Modern Rock</a> chart. The band's follow-up, the 1993 album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerosene_Hat" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Kerosene Hat</em></a> included the hit songs "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_(Cracker_song)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Low</a>", "Get Off This", and "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro-Trash_Girl" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Euro-Trash Girl</a>".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(band)#cite_note-Larkin90-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[1]</a></p><h2>Cracker has released nine studio albums and several compilations, collaborations, solo projects and live albums.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(band)#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[2]</a> The band mix influences and sounds from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">rock</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_rock" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">punk</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">grunge</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">psychedelia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">country</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">blues</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">folk</a>.</h2><h2><br></h2><h2>History</h2><h3>1990s</h3><p>Shortly after Lowery's former group <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camper_Van_Beethoven" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Camper Van Beethoven</a> disbanded in 1990, he began demoing material along with boyhood friend, guitarist Johnny Hickman. After moving from Redlands, California to Richmond, Virginia, Lowery and Hickman recorded a demo tape, later nicknamed <em>Big Dirty Yellow Demos</em> by the group's fans, which included early versions of songs that appeared on later albums. They eventually chose the name Cracker and teamed up with fellow Redlands bass guitarist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davey_Faragher" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Davey Faragher</a>. A brief tour with Virginia drummer Go Weatherford followed.</p><p>By 1991, the newly formed band had signed a recording contract with Virgin Records and enlisted the help of several drummers/percussionists (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Keltner" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jim Keltner</a>, Michael Urbano and Phil Jones), issuing its first album, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Cracker</em></a>, in 1992.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(band)#cite_note-Larkin90-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[1]</a> From the album came radio hit "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Angst_(What_the_World_Needs_Now)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)</a>", which peaked at No.&nbsp;1 on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Rock_Tracks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Modern Rock Tracks</a>, and a second single entitled "Happy Birthday to Me." The album went on to sell more than 200,000 copies.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(band)#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[3]</a></p><p>A year later, Cracker issued its best-selling album, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerosene_Hat" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Kerosene Hat</em></a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(band)#cite_note-Larkin90-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[1]</a> The album included hit singles "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_(Cracker_song)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Low</a>" and "Get Off This" (both with official music videos directed by Carlos Grasso), as well as a cover of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Grateful Dead</a>'s "Loser."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(band)#cite_note-Larkin90-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[1]</a> The album sold almost half a million copies that year and eventually almost reached platinum status.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(band)#cite_note-The_Great_Rock_Discography-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[4]</a> Urbano performed on <em>Kerosene Hat</em> and toured with Cracker before leaving the band, along with Faragher. After a short spell with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bruce_Hughes&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bruce Hughes</a>, Lowery and Hickman added <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Rupe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bob Rupe</a>, formerly of The Silos, as bass guitarist and Charlie Quintana (Bob Dylan, The JuJu Hounds) on drums. In 1993, Cracker contributed the song "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Times_Bad_Times" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Good Times Bad Times</a>" to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encomium:_A_Tribute_to_Led_Zeppelin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Encomium: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin</em></a> album. Initially, the band had recorded a rendition of "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Levee_Breaks" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">When the Levee Breaks</a>" but it was deemed "too weird."</p>