Berkeley To Bakersfield[2 CD]

Berkeley To Bakersfield[2 CD]

Cracker releasing their tenth studio album, entitled Berkeley To Bakersfield, a double-album that finds this uniquely American band traversing two different sides of the California landscape the northern Bay area and further down-state in Bakersfield.

Despite being less than a five-hour drive from city to city, musically, these two regions couldn't be further apart from one another. In the late 70s and 80s a harder-edged style of rock music emerged from the Bay area, while Bakersfield is renowned for its own iconic twangy country music popularized, most famously, by Buck Owens and Merle Haggard in the 60s and 70s. Yet despite these differences, they are both elements that Cracker s two cofounders, David Lowery and Johnny Hickman, have embraced to some degree on nearly every one of their studio albums over the last two decades. On Berkeley To Bakersfield, however, instead of integrating these two genres together within one disc, they ve neatly compartmentalized them onto their own respective regionally-titled LPs.

As Lowery explains, On the Berkeley disc the band is the original Cracker lineup - Davey Faragher, Michael Urbano, Johnny and myself. This is the first time this lineup has recorded together in almost 20 years. We began recording this album at East Bay Recorders in Berkeley, CA. For this reason we chose to stylistically focus this disc on the music we most associate with the East Bay: Punk and Garage with some funky undertones. To further match our sense of place we often took an overtly political tone in the lyrics.

This Bakersfield disc represents the California country side of the band. Throughout the band s 24-year history we've dabbled in Country and Americana but this time we wanted to pay homage to the particular strain of Country and Country-Rock music that emerges from the inland valleys of California.
Country USA
Brand Concord Music Group
Manufacturer Savoy
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber 43168-38041
ReleaseDate 2014-12-09
UnitCount 2
UPCs 795041602626
EANs 0795041602626

Country	USA
Brand	Concord Music Group
Manufacturer	Savoy
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	43168-38041
ReleaseDate	2014-12-09
UnitCount	2
UPCs	795041602626
EANs	0795041602626

Berkeley To Bakersfield[2 CD]

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