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Kerosene Hat | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | August 24, 1993 | |||
Recorded | February 25 – March 25, 1993 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock, alternative country, grunge[1] | |||
Length | 72:43 | |||
Label | Virgin | |||
Producer | Don Smith, Cracker | |||
Cracker chronology | ||||
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Singles from Kerosene Hat | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Chicago Tribune | [3] |
Los Angeles Times | [4] |
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide | [5] |
Spin | [6] |
The Village Voice | [7] |
Kerosene Hat is the second studio album by American rock band Cracker, released on August 24, 1993. It reached number 1 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart, and number 59 on the Billboard 200 album chart. The singles from the album, "Low" and "Get Off This", helped Cracker gain widespread notice.
According to frontman David Lowery, the album title comes from the band's early days in Richmond, Virginia. Lowery lived with Cracker guitarist Johnny Hickman in an old dilapidated house whose only source of heat came from two kerosene heaters. To buy more kerosene meant a cold walk to a nearby gas station, so before leaving the house, Lowery would bundle up and put on an old wool hunting cap – his "kerosene hat." "To this day," says Lowery, "the smell of kerosene reminds me of the poverty and the wistful hope we had for our music."[8]