Cracker Unplugged (Featuring David Lowery and Johnny Hickman) w/Brandi Shearer
**PLEASE NOTE: DATE CHANGE FROM 3/12/10. NEW PERFORMANCE DATE IS 2/28/10 AT 7 P.M. Refunds are available for tickets purchased for the original date. Tickets purchased for the 3/12/10 performance will still be honored on 2/28. Swallow Hill Music apologizes for any inconvenience.
David Lowery and Johnny Hickman, founding members of Cracker, the band that veritably introduced brash irreverence and irony into alt-rock, will take the stage for an intimate acoustic performance at Swallow Hill Music.
Performing hits like “Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now)” and "Low" among others, the Cracker acoustic show has been described as "a thing of beauty," (nuvo.net), as Hickman manipulates his guitar to create atmospheric counterpoints to Lowery’s melodic singing and strumming.
Cracker's latest release, Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey (2009), debuted in the top 200 of the Billboard Music Chart, and soon after rocketed to the #28 position of the Billboard Indie Chart. Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey has been described as "…another set of piercing songs from a consistently good band carrying the torch of The Clash," (PASTE magazine) and Spin magazine gave the album "four stars," claiming "Lowery's piercing intelligence and smartass humor click on Sunrise, his smoke-stained voice adding genuine soul to the quartet's chunky guitar pop."
San Francisco-based Brandi Shearer will open the show. Shearer, it seems, is somewhat of a dichotomy. She’s a songwriter tagged by critics as a “chanteuse” possessing a “whispery tenderness” who increasingly travels to dark places in her songs. She’s an honest, heart-on-sleeve lyricist with a sly, self-deprecating sense of humor in real life. And she’s a rock/folk/jazz musician who’s quite at home discussing her love of hip-hop and classical music.
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