2002 studio album by Uncle Kracker
No Stranger to Shame is the second studio album by American recording artist Uncle Kracker . It was released on August 27, 2002 via Lava Records . The album peaked at number 43 on the Billboard 200 , spawning two charted singles "In a Little While " and "Drift Away " (featuring original singer Dobie Gray ), the latter reaching #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on July 29, 2003.
The music of No Stranger to Shame , like its predecessor, features an eclectic sound broadly categorized as rock by AllMusic ,[ 1] and as southern rock by Entertainment Weekly .[ 2] The album also incorporates elements of hip hop [ 1] [ 2] and country .[ 3] It is his last album to receive a parental advisory label and his last to feature rapping , on the songs "Keep It Comin'" and "No Stranger to Shame".
Title Writer(s) 1. "Keep It Comin' " 3:22 2. "Thunderhead Hawkins" 3:48 3. "In a Little While " 4:09 4. "I Wish I Had a Dollar" 4:04 5. "Drift Away " Mentor Williams 4:15 6. "Baby Don't Cry" 4:26 7. "I Do" 3:11 8. "Memphis Soul Song" Shafer Bradford Martin "Tino" Gross 3:58 9. "I Don't Know" 3:57 10. "To Think I Used to Love You" 3:29 11. "Letter to My Daughters" 3:08 12. "No Stranger to Shame" 3:40 Total length: 45:31
Matthew Shafer – lead vocals , co-producer
Jimmie "Bones" Trombly – background vocals (tracks 2, 10) , organ & piano (tracks: 1, 8) , drums (track 9)
Michael Bradford – background vocals (tracks: 4, 10) , additional vocals (tracks: 5, 12) , keyboards (tracks: 1-9, 11-12) , guitar (tracks: 1-11, 12) , bass guitar (tracks: 1-9, 12) , drums (tracks: 2-4, 8) , mixing , producer
Dobie Gray – vocals (track 5)
Beth Hart – background vocals (track 7)
Mark McGrath – additional vocals (track 12)
Richard Baker – piano (track 5)
Dean Parks – guitar (tracks: 5, 10)
Philip Sayce – guitar (track 6)
Wanda Vick – dobro , fiddle and mandolin (track 10)
Jimmy Johnson – bass guitar (track 10)
Larry Paxton – upright bass (track 11)
Russ Kunkel – drums (tracks: 5, 10)
Scott Krauss – drums (track 6)
Jeffrey Fowlkes – drums (tracks: 7, 8)
Dan Higgins – saxophone (track 7)
Bill Reichenbach Jr. – saxophone (track 7)
Jerry Hey – trumpet (track 7)
Robert James Ritchie – executive producer
Andy VanDette – mastering
F. Scott Shafer – photography
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^ a b c Sinclair, Tom (2002-09-27). "No Stranger to Shame Review" . Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 2012-05-04 .
^ a b Lecaro, Lina (2002-10-13). "Quick Spins (Uncle Kracker: No Stranger to Shame )" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2012-12-23 .
^ "Austriancharts.at – Uncle Kracker – Double Wide" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved January 23, 2020.
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^ "Uncle Kracker Chart History (Billboard 200)" . Billboard . Retrieved January 23, 2020.
^ "Canada's Top 200 Alternative albums of 2002" . Jam! . Archived from the original on September 2, 2004. Retrieved March 28, 2022 .
^ "American album certifications – UNCLE KRACKER – NO STRANGER TO SHAME" . Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved January 23, 2020 .
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