hypersongs

Kerosene Hat

Track four of Kerosene Hat, never released as a single.
Cracker, from Kerosene Hat (1993)

Lowery is the sole credited writer. The title track runs 5:36 and was recorded between February 25 and March 25, 1993 at The Soundstage in Pioneertown with Don Smith producing; a short 1:23 outtake of it sits as hidden track 99. Jason Gross of Rock and Roll Globe calls it quiet and sincere, with a Hickman solo he compares to Eddie Hazel on Funkadelic's "Maggot Brain". A search summary of Rolling Stone's Crackers with Attitude says it portrays an eccentric desertbilly couple with Captain Beefheart-like imagery and that a rough take was captured on a camcorder the morning after Lowery wrote it, which we could not verify. Hickman grouped it with "Loser" and "I Want Everything" as the album's dark, hypnotic, soulful sound.

Setlist.fm lists it 23 times of 2,159 Cracker setlists, against "Low" at 845 and "Euro-Trash Girl" at 770, and the band played the whole album at Pioneertown in 2011. We found no covers or samples.

On stage

  • 2011, Pioneertown, California The whole album was played.

Sources

  1. Kerosene Hat, Wikipedia
  2. Get Off This: Cracker's Kerosene Hat at 30, Rock and Roll Globe
  3. Cracker's desert songs, Rox (1994-01)
  4. Cracker setlist statistics, setlist.fm