Post by CMF Newsman on Jul 16, 2009 11:01:50 GMT -5
You know the saying, “I wouldn’t kick her out for eating crackers in bed,”?
Well, I would kick you out for playing Cracker in bed. Not because they are a horrible band, and not because they grate on my nerves, but because David Lowry, the lead singer, might be one of the cockiest people I have interviewed in the last four years.
When I spoke to him, he brazenly told me his band was the first indie rock band. The inventor of indie, huh? Really? You think so? Well, that’s neat that you think so, because you may be the only one.
Granted, he said that he tours about 200 days a year, which might be independent, except for the fact that Cracker just signed with 429 Records, and that is definitely a label. A label started by Kings of Leon, which is pretty cool, but still a label. So, that is not exactly independent or indie…
More at chattanoogapulse.com/music/music-feature/music-feature-cracker-and-cheese/