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Graham does have a weakness for music. Friends and relatives roll their eyes when he breaks into one of his favorite campaign ditties: "I'm a Florida cracker, I'm a Graham cracker." "He'll sing it at the drop of a hat," says historian and Truman biographer David McCullough, whose son Bill is married to Graham's daughter Cissy. When grief-stricken Miamians took to the streets two weeks ago as news spread that Elian Gonzalez was returning to Cuba, Graham began composing a sympathetic operetta, setting the little boy's saga to music. In a mythic scene, Elian...
...Ugggghhh, nooo! [squeals, groans] I don't eat shit like that! I'm an organic person. I'm always like, "Is there anything organic around here?" Woody's making it with the cracker jacks - he looks so sweet eating apple jacks in those stone washed denim shorts. Don't you just want to make a beanie baby...
...sunny anymore. It's kind of pink and bright, but not sunny. But grunge was sunny. Remember Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" video? It had lots of sun. Cracker is the grunge band of sun, so sunny they're almost country...
...Garage d'Or is yet another greatest-hits-with-a-few-new-songs album. Unfortunately, it shows Cracker hasn't really made any good songs since 1993, when their Kerosene Hat album came out. It had "Low," the best Cracker song (it's the one with the huge, buzzing guitar opening and the chorus "Be with you girl/Like being low/Hey Hey Hey like being stoned"). "Low" is not a first-class grunge anthem only because it was too simple and was never canonized. It was probably never canonized because Cracker are always fashioning themselves as hayseeds...
...Cracker's oeuvre since 1993 has capitalized on the marginal staying power granted any band who left the garage of gold for the barn, like Wilco or the Counting Crows, and much of Garage d'Or has hints of country in its sound. The music gets janglier and vocalist David Lowery sounds more like a has-been. The new material is actually pretty good; but instead of being genius and entertaining, it's merely "haunting." Garage d'Or preserves the good songs from their horny days; the rest is only patly interesting. B -Benjamin E. Lytal