Seventy Two and Sunny

Seventy Two and Sunny is Uncle Kracker's third studio album, released on Lava Records on June 29, 2004. It is Uncle Kracker's first album not to receive a parental advisory sticker and to feature no rap songs. It is also his last to be released on Lava Records.

Seventy Two and Sunny
Studio album by Uncle Kracker
Released	June 29, 2004
Recorded	2003–2004
Studio	Chunky Style Music Studios, Los Angeles, California
Genre	Country[1][2] pop[2]
Length	52:46
Label	Lava Top Dog
Producer	Mike Bradford Uncle Kracker Kid Rock (exec.)
Uncle Kracker chronology
No Stranger to Shame (2002) Seventy Two and Sunny (2004) Happy Hour (2009)
Singles from Seventy Two and Sunny
"Rescue" Released: 2004 "Writing It Down" Released: 2004

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	52/100[3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[4]
Billboard	(favorable)[5]
Blender	[3]
Entertainment Weekly	B−[6]
Rolling Stone	[1]
Spin	(6/10)[2]
The Village Voice	(unfavorable)[7]

Critical reception

Seventy Two and Sunny was met with "mixed or average" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 52 based on 8 reviews.^[3]

Among the positive reviews is Chuck Kosterman's take in Spin Magazine, where he writes "You’d have to work pretty hard not to like these songs, though I’m sure some people will try", a reference to the fact that Uncle Kracker was never a critic's darling, despite his record sales.^[8] In a review AllMusic, John Luerssen noted the album is "largely absent of originality", while going on to say "like the bulk of Uncle Kracker's second musical helping, it's dang hard to swallow."^[4] David Browne's mixed review in Entertainment Weekly said: "Kracker now sees himself as a scruffy Nashville troubadour, and on his third CD, he pulls off the conceit far better than [Kid] Rock has." On a critical note, Browne adds "Kracker's voice is too banal - and his material too mundane - to cut as deeply as his rural heroes."^[6]

Track listing

Seventy Two and Sunny track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"This Time"		3:41
2.	"Rescue"	Diane Warren	4:04
3.	"Further Down the Road"		4:23
4.	"Don't Know How (Not to Love You)"	Frank J. Myers Shafer Bradford	4:10
5.	"What Do We Want?"		3:34
6.	"Writing It Down"	Bradford	4:37
7.	"A Place at My Table"		4:16
8.	"Some Things You Can't Take Back"		4:11
9.	"Blues Man"		3:19
10.	"Songs About Me, Songs About You"		3:34
11.	"Please Come Home"	M. Miers Shafer	3:59
12.	"You're Not Free"		3:31
13.	"Last Night Again" (featuring Kenny Chesney)		2:57

All tracks are written by Michael Bradford and Matt Shafer, unless noted.

Personnel

• Uncle Kracker – lead vocals
• Mike Bradford – banjo, bass guitar, dobro, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, piano, keyboards, drums, background vocals
• Laurie Melanson – dobro, acoustic guitar, harmonica, hi–string guitar
• Frank J. Myers – acoustic guitar, background vocals
• Dan Dugmore – pedal steel guitar
• Brent Mason – electric guitar
• Eric Gorfain – violin
• John Catchings – cello
• Larry Paxton – double bass
• Richard Baker – piano
• Jerome Day – drums
• Eddie Bayers – drums
• Russ Kunkel – drums
• Annie Ree Bradford – introduction vocals
• Kenny Chesney – lead vocals on "Last Night Again"
• Bret Michaels – background vocals on "Last Night Again"
• Phil Vassar – piano and background vocals on "Writing It Down"

Charts

Chart performance for Seventy Two and Sunny

Chart (2004)	Peak position
US Billboard 200[9]	39