Seventy Two and Sunny
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Seventy Two and Sunny is Uncle Kracker's third studio album, released on Lava Records on June 29, 2004. It is Uncle Kracker s first album not to receive a parental advisory sticker and to feature no rap songs. It is also his last to be released on Lava Records.-Wikipedia
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AllMusic
Largely absent of originality, Kracker brews up airwave-ripe albeit sugary lovelorn dreck like "Rescue" and the doo wop novelty "Please Come Home." That's not to say Seventy Two & Sunny is all annoyingly tepid, as the alluringly sunny "This Time" fuses country and classic rock with inexplicably pleasant results.
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SPIN
August 11, 2004. . . . None of the tracks on Seventy Two & Sunny remotely resemble “country rock.” They all sound like pop songs (there are no waltzes or fiddle reveries or twang-infused references to rodeo clowns), yet they all feel like country songs. The result is a better-than-decent album that will appeal to those who don’t listen to music with sociology in mind, . . . .
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People
August 16, 2004. On his third solo outing, Uncle Kracker completes his musical makeover from Kid Rock’s deejay and hype man to a credible country-rocker living up to his Everyredneck persona. Indeed, there is nary a hint of hip-hop or hard rock on this disc. Instead, Kracker softens up his approach with warm early-’70s sounds and classic Nashville-style songcraft . . . .
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Entertainment
July 9, 2004. Like his boss Kid Rock, Kracker now sees himself as a scruffy Nashville troubadour, and on his third CD, he pulls off the conceit far better than Rock has.
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Music Stack
As Kid Rock's DJ and songwriting buddy, Uncle Kracker juices Rock's albums with redneck funk and can't-miss choruses. But on Seventy-two and Sunny, they're replaced by folkie simplicity and country-crossover schmaltz, with Kracker chasing the success of his 2002 cover of Dobie Gray's "Drift Away."
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In Music We Trust
September, 2004. I've always had a weak spot . . . for back-porch blues inspired rock n' boogie. And that is exactly what UNCLE KRAKER is. Southern boogie influenced blues rock with lots of pop hooks intermingled with just enough steel guitar to appeal to country and western fans without taking the plunge into Nashville hell.
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Slip Cue - Joe Sicpack's Country Music
As it turns out, Uncle Kracker's third solo album is pretty good, or at least pretty listenable. It's also surprising how measured and skillful this album is; it's fairly thoughtful, fairly catchy, melodic stuff, country-tinged post-'70s soft rock with a bitter, sardonic edge.
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