Live Trucker

Live Trucker

by Kid Rock
Live Trucker

Live Trucker

by Kid Rock
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Overview

Kid Rock may have styled his first live album, Live Trucker, after Bob Seger's classic Live Bullet, paying homage to the artwork right down to the typeface and also choosing to record in his hometown of Detroit, but if Live Bullet caught Seger on the rise, Live Trucker catches Kid on his decline. This isn't a hard-driving, sweaty rock & roll record; this is a Vegas revue, all glam and glitz, with its heart in showbiz. Of course, Kid Rock has always had his tongue planted firmly in his cheek when he went about his self-mythologizing, particularly on his still potent and funny 1998 breakthrough, Devil Without a Cause, but on this live effort recorded largely in August 2004, his joking has turned into inadvertent self-parody. This wasn't the case on his eponymous 2003 effort, which may not have set the charts on fire, but it did capture him in good form, where his rough and rowdy ways still seemed roguishly charming. Here, it's possible to hear the toll that all the partying has taken on him: he sounds hoarse and winded, and when he trades lines with his keyboardist, it seems as if it's because he doesn't have the energy to finish the song, not because it makes for a better show. And while the Twisted Brown Trucker Band sound tight, they also sound too slick, never really giving this white trash rock & roll the grit that it needs. Of course, the album isn't helped by its ridiculously front-loaded sequencing, where "Bawitadaba," "Cowboy," and "Devil Without a Cause" follow back to back in the first four tracks, and his next biggest hit, "Picture" (here performed with Gretchen Wilson, not Sheryl Crow), also appears in the first half of the record; with the exception of "Only God Knows Why," the second half consists largely of new material, or lesser-known hits. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date: 02/28/2006
Label: Atlantic
UPC: 0075678392429
Rank: 169134

Tracks

  1. Son of Detroit
  2. Bawitdaba
  3. Cowboy (Intro)
  4. Cowboy
  5. Devil Without a Cause
  6. Somebody's Gotta Feel This/Fist of Rage
  7. Picture
  8. American Bad A**
  9. Rock N' Roll Pain Train
  10. Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp
  11. Motherf**ker Quite Like Me
  12. Cocky
  13. Only God Knows Why
  14. Outstanding

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Kid Rock   Primary Artist,Drums,Vocals,Turntables,Keyboards,Piano,Guitar,Percussion,Guitar (Acoustic)
Gretchen Wilson   Primary Artist,Featured Artist
The Twisted Brown Trucker Band   Primary Artist,Organ,Piano,Guitar,Keyboards,Wurlitzer,Percussion,Turntables,Guitar (Bass),Harp,Drums,Featured Artist,Vocals (Background)
Mike Bradford   Bass (Electric),Bass,Guitar (Bass)
Uncle Kracker   Turntables,Vocals
Joe C.   Vocals
R. Smith Curry   Dobro,Pedal Steel
Laura Creamer   Vocals (Background)
Karen Newman   Vocals (Background)
Freddie "Paradime" Beaureguard   Turntables,Vocals (Background)
Stefanie Eulinberg   Vocals (Background),Drums
Aaron Julison   Vocals (Background),Bass (Electric),Bass,Guitar (Bass)
Jimmie Bones   Harmonica,Vocals (Background),Keyboards
Jason Krause   Guitar
Fred Beauregard   Turntables,Vocals (Background)
Kenny Olson   Guitar,Guitar (Electric)
Matthew Shafer   Vocals,Turntables
Smith Curry   Dobro,Slide Guitar,Lap Steel Guitar

Technical Credits

Ken "Pooch" VanBruten   Audio Engineer
Kid Rock   Audio Production,Mixing,Producer,Adaptation,Mixing Engineer
The Twisted Brown Trucker Band   Musician
Robert James Ritchie   Composer,Lyricist
Punch Andrews   Management
Tom DeLuca   Composer
Kenneth A. Van Druten   Engineer
Harold Tipton   Composer
Robert Gold   Art Producer
Liz Barrett   Art Producer
Mike E. Clark   Engineer,Pre-Mixing
Jason Krause   Composer,Lyricist
Freddie "Paradime" Beaureguard   DJ
Todd Shaw   Composer
David Allan Coe   Composer
David Hewitt   Engineer
David Parker   Composer
Ronnie Van Zant   Composer
Al Sutton   Mixing,Mixing Engineer
Gerard Smerek   Engineer
Darren Robinson   Composer
Mike "Spike" Rush   Guitar Technician
A.J. Collins   Composer
Dave Dion   Photography
Michael Tuller   Engineer
Clay Patrick McBridge   Photography
Eric Celerio   Guitar Technician
Sean Paden   Guitar Technician
Clack Eddy   Video Director
Damon Wimbley   Composer
Al Rogozinski   Guitar Technician
James Trombly   Composer
Mike Mason   Instrument Technician
Ken "Pooch" Van Druten   Engineer
Paul White   Sound Technician
Ronald Brooks   Composer
Fred Beauregard   Composer
Martin "Tino" Gross   Composer
Eric Gryzbowski   Instrument Technician
Ronald Calhoun   Composer
Brett Stec   Sound Technician
Joe Mangees   Sound Technician
John Cromer   Guitar Technician
Donnie Floyd   Drum Technician
Allen Collins   Composer
Ted Jensen   Mastering,Mastering Engineer
Sylvia Robinson   Composer
Blumpy   Pre-Mixing
Sheryl Crow   Composer
Kenny Olson   Composer
Charlie Wilson   Composer
Lawrence Smith   Composer
Jimmie Bones   Composer,Lyricist
Larry Smith   Composer
Lars Ulrich   Composer
Jalil Hutchins   Composer
James Hetfield   Composer
Uncle Kracker   DJ
Martin Gross   Composer
John Travis   Composer,Lyricist
Robert John "Mutt" Lange   Composer
Mark Morales   Composer
Lonnie Simmons   Composer
Ronnie Brooks   Composer
Matthew Shafer   Composer,Lyricist
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