Hey, hey, hey, it's like being stoned

Cracker will release Countrysides, an album of country-music covers, on October 14. Rolling Stone reports that the album is an “exploration of the counter-culture part of country music. The long-hair, hippie, pot-smoking part of country music that [we] never realized Cracker had been so influenced by.” Apparently, I am not the only one baffled and slightly annoyed with this new effort. Virgin records has dropped the band from the label because of disagreement over the direction of this album. A highlight of the album is the track, “Ain’t Gonna Suck Itself”, dedicated to Virgin Records.