Cracker / Leftover Salmon - 'O Cracker Where Art Thou' (Cooking Vinyl)
2/5
By: Samantha Hall
More nutty than a hazelnut and raisin chew-bar. This 'unencumbered', playful collaboration comes from Cracker's David Lowery and Johnny Hickman, and Colorado jam-band Leftover Salmon. Re-interpretations of Cracker's old hits (?) such as 'Eurotrash Girl' and 'Teen Angst' are launched back into the public eye, served up with a large dollop of Southern Yankee grease.
And for Cracker lovers - they'll probably find this new country-fied release a delightful and cooky collectable item. But for someone un-textbook on the notorious Cooking Vinyl following and Cracker hum, 'O Cracker Where Art Thou?' is rather uneventful.
Banjos and mandolins push too far images of the bands noodling in barns in dusty dungarees. It by no means is a surprise that several members of Leftover Salmon do indeed have handlebar-tashes.
Yet, actually, the first couple of tracks ('Get Off', 'Eurotrash...') are fairly nifty, possessive of an open penchant to wander so candidly off the bedraggled, battered path; after all, when was the last time you heard a band record a revival album with re-inventions of material using influences of... country jam?
But, beyond this, their new 'sound' just proves rather taxing. The warming whisky taste is only pleasing for so long before it becomes somewhat bitter and wearing.
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