Gentleman's Blues
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Gentleman's Blues is Cracker
Cracker (band)
Cracker is an American alternative rock band featuring founders/songwriters singer David Lowery and guitarist Johnny Hickman. They are best known for their platinum-selling 1993 album, Kerosene Hat, featuring the hit songs "Low", "Euro-Trash Girl", and "Get Off This".Founders Lowery and Hickman...

's fourth album
Album
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, released in 1998. It would be the band's final album for Virgin Records.

Cracker frontman David Lowery
David Lowery
David Lowery is an American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter; he is the founder of alternative rock band, Camper Van Beethoven, and co-founder of the more traditional rock band, Cracker...

 said that the album's name arose when guitarist Johnny Hickman
Johnny Hickman
Johnny Hickman is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist in the rock band Cracker.Hickman is a native of Redlands in San Bernardino County in California's Inland Empire. Prior to his tenure in Cracker, Hickman had stints in various California bands including The Unforgiven and The...

 heard him playing a tune on the piano and observed that it sounded like an old Southern gentleman trying to play the blues. http://www.nyrock.com/interviews/cracker_int.htm

Track listing

  1. "Good Life" (Lowery/Hickman) - 3:50
  2. "Seven Days" (Lowery/Hickman) - 4:24
  3. "Star" (Lowery/Hickman) - 3:21
  4. "James River" (Lowery) - 5:03
  5. "My Life Is Totally Boring Without You" (Lowery/Hickman/Rupe) - 3:17
  6. "Been Around the World" (Lowery) - 5:02
  7. "The World Is Mine" (Lowery/Hickman) - 3:45
  8. "Lullabye" (Lowery) - 4:59
  9. "Waiting for You Girl" (Lowery/Hickman) - 4:01
  10. "Trials & Tribulations" (Hickman) - 3:01
  11. "Wild One" (Lowery/Hickman/Rupe) - 4:25
  12. "Hold of Myself" (Hickman) - 3:57
  13. "Gentleman's Blues" (Lowery/Hickman) - 4:58
  14. "I Want Out of the Circus" (Lowery) - 4:53
  15. "Wedding Day" (Hickman) - 3:47
  16. "Hallelujah" (Lowery) - 4:10
  17. [Silence]
  18. "1-202-456-1414" (the touch-tone phone number for the White House
    White House
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    ) - :08
  19. [Silence]
  20. "1-202-514-8688" (a U.S. Department of Justice phone number, formerly held by Ken Starr) - :08
  21. [Silence]
  22. "1-310-289-4459" (presently, the phone number for Beverly Hills psychotherapist Julia Kantor) - :12
  23. [Silence]
  24. "Cinderella" (Lowery) - 5:03


Tracks after 16 "Hallelujah" are all hidden track
Hidden track
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s.

Chart performance

Chart (1998) Peak
position
The Billboard 200 182
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