Uncle Kracker

BIOGRAPHy

Uncle Kracker’s debut album, Double Wide, was recorded at the back of the tour bus during Kid Rock’s cross-country treks with Limp Bizkit and Metallica. Kid Rock and the members of Twisted Brown Trucker — including keyboardist Jimmie Bones, guitarists Kenny Olson and Jason Krause and drummer Stefanie Eulinberg — all paid visits to the makeshift studio in order to contribute. Kid Rock dropped one of his trademark raps on “Heaven.” The easy going first single, “Follow Me,” dominated pop radio in 2000. In 2002, Kracker released No Stranger to Shame, which boasted another radio hit, a cover of Dobie Gray’s “Drift Away.” Uncle Kracker’s album Seventy Two and Sunny arrived in 2004. Uncle Kracker’s fourth studio album, Happy Hour, was released in 2009. The first single from the album, “Smile,” was released in July 2009 and peaked at #31 on the Billboard Hot 100. “Smile” also became his first solo entry on the Hot Country Songs chart, where it debuted at #57 and peaked at #6 in September 2010. Uncle Kracker’s six song EP, Happy Hour: The South River Road Sessions, was released in June 2010. The EP features country remakes of songs off the Happy Hour album. He dropped the album Midnight Special in 2012. Uncle Kracker continues to perform all over the world.

 

Career Path

2000Broke through with debut album 'Double Wide', recorded on Kid Rock's tour bus during cross-country runs with Limp Bizkit and Metallica; lead single 'Follow Me' dominated pop radio and peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.
2002Released 'No Stranger to Shame', anchored by a cover of Dobie Gray's 'Drift Away' that set an Adult Contemporary chart record with 28 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1.
2004Joined Kenny Chesney on 'When the Sun Goes Down', the duet topping the Billboard Hot Country Singles and Tracks chart for five weeks and marking Uncle Kracker's first appearance on the country chart.
2009Released the crossover single 'Smile' from the 'Happy Hour' album, which peaked at No. 6 on the Hot Country Songs chart and introduced Uncle Kracker to a durable country radio audience.
2010Followed 'Happy Hour' with the six-track 'Happy Hour: The South River Road Sessions' EP featuring country reworkings of album tracks, broadening his country fanbase ahead of a Nashville pivot.
2012Dropped 'Midnight Special', his fifth studio album produced by Keith Stegall and released on Sugar Hill/Vanguard Records, charting at No. 33 on Billboard Top Country Albums.
2024Joined Kenny Chesney's 'Sun Goes Down Tour' as a featured support act, reconnecting with the collaborator who first brought him to country audiences two decades earlier.
2025Released 'Horizons Renewed', his first studio album in over a decade, featuring new material recorded in Nashville alongside a deluxe reissue of 'Double Wide' marking the album's 25th anniversary.
2026Kicked off a national headlining tour spanning Orlando, Nashville, Denver, Los Angeles, and Chicago behind 'Horizons Renewed'.

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