{"id":23102,"date":"2014-12-28T09:04:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T17:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=23102"},"modified":"2014-12-28T09:04:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T17:04:25","slug":"tomorrow-night-1229-at-the-lobero-theater-cracker-with-camper-van-beethoven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-12\/tomorrow-night-1229-at-the-lobero-theater-cracker-with-camper-van-beethoven\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow Night (12\/29) at the Lobero Theater: Cracker, with Camper Van Beethoven"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Cracker1_credit_BradfordJones<\/a><\/p>\n

Got the post-Christmas\/pre-New Year blues?\u00a0 Need to get away from grandma, uncle or that pesky little kid\/grandkid?\u00a0 We’ve got just the thing for you.\u00a0 Tomorrow night Santa Barbara will be the beneficiaries of both\u00a0Cracker<\/b><\/a> and Camper Van Beethoven <\/b>performing at the Lobero Theatre.\u00a0 <\/b>Undoubtedly, Cracker<\/strong> will concentrate on songs from their fine new double-album Berkeley to Bakersfield<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n

When Camper Van Beethoven <\/b>called it quits in 1990, the seminal American indie-rock band Cracker<\/b> rose from those campfire ashes, formed by singer-songwriter David Lowery <\/strong>and gifted guitarist-songrwriter Johnny Hickman.\u00a0 Cracker <\/strong>went on to release carefully-crafted and much-loved songs Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now), Low, Get Off This,\u00a0I Hate My Generation, <\/strong><\/em>and Kerosene Hat <\/strong><\/em>amongst a score of top-quality compositions and albums (to this day, The Golden Age <\/strong><\/em>remain two of our all-time favorites). Over the course of their still-fecund career, Lowery<\/strong> and Hickman<\/strong> have delivered some of the most well-wrought lyrics and melodies of their generation and have gone on to release ten studio albums and various other superb solo albums and other varietals.<\/p>\n

Despite their superb discography, they’ve never let down and this month released an ambitious ode to the music of California, with the outstanding double-album Berkeley to Bakersfield<\/strong><\/i> (TLR<\/strong>–another reason to not release those Best of 2014<\/strong> lists too early).\u00a0<\/i> The Berkeley<\/i><\/strong> album features the rockier sounds of California, while Bakersfield<\/strong> <\/i>harkens to the country-roots side of the California sound continuum.\u00a0 It is an outstanding release that is garnering critical acclaim around the globe. Check out a few of the gems (Almond Grove<\/strong><\/em> and California Country Boy<\/strong><\/em>) off the album below.<\/p>\n

The bottom line:\u00a0 do yourselves a favor and get out to the Lobero Theater<\/strong> tomorrow night in your own backyard and check out one of America’s great bands.\u00a0 You can still get tickets HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Photo:\u00a0 Bradford Jones<\/p>\n