No Stranger to Shame

No Stranger to Shame
No Stranger to Shame
Studio album by Uncle Kracker
Released	August 27, 2002
Genre	Hip hop; country; Southern rock;
Length	45:31
Label	Lava
Producer	Kid Rock (exec.); Michael Bradford; Uncle Kracker (co.);
Uncle Kracker chronology
Singles from No Stranger to Shame
	"In a Little While"; Released: August 12, 2002; "Drift Away"; Released: January 27, 2003; "Memphis Soul Song"; Released: 2003;

No Stranger to Shame is the second studio album by American recording artist Uncle Kracker. It was released on August 27, 2002 via Lava Records. The album peaked at number 43 on the Billboard 200, spawning two charted singles "In a Little While" and "Drift Away" (featuring original singer Dobie Gray), the latter reaching #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on July 29, 2003.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Entertainment Weekly	B−^[2]
Los Angeles Times	^[3]

Music

The music of No Stranger to Shame, like its predecessor, features an eclectic sound broadly categorized as rock by AllMusic,^[1] and as southern rock by Entertainment Weekly.^[2] The album also incorporates elements of hip hop^[1]^[2] and country.^[3] It is his last album to receive a parental advisory label and his last to feature rapping, on the songs "Keep It Comin'" and "No Stranger to Shame".

Track listing

All tracks written by Matthew Shafer and Michael Bradford, except where noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Keep It Comin'"		3:22
2.	"Thunderhead Hawkins"		3:48
3.	"In a Little While"		4:09
4.	"I Wish I Had a Dollar"		4:04
5.	"Drift Away"	Mentor Williams	4:15
6.	"Baby Don't Cry"		4:26
7.	"I Do"		3:11
8.	"Memphis Soul Song"	Shafer Bradford Martin "Tino" Gross	3:58
9.	"I Don't Know"		3:57
10.	"To Think I Used to Love You"		3:29
11.	"Letter to My Daughters"	Shafer Bradford David Allan Coe	3:08
12.	"No Stranger to Shame"		3:40
Total length:			45:31

Personnel

Matthew Shafer – lead vocals, co-producer
Jimmie "Bones" Trombly – background vocals (tracks 2, 10), organ & piano (tracks: 1, 8), drums (track 9)
Michael Bradford – background vocals (tracks: 4, 10), additional vocals (tracks: 5, 12), keyboards (tracks: 1-9, 11-12), guitar (tracks: 1-11, 12), bass guitar (tracks: 1-9, 12), drums (tracks: 2-4, 8), mixing, producer
Dobie Gray – vocals (track 5)
Beth Hart – background vocals (track 7)
Mark McGrath – additional vocals (track 12)
Richard Baker – piano (track 5)
Dean Parks – guitar (tracks: 5, 10)
Philip Sayce – guitar (track 6)
Wanda Vick – dobro, fiddle and mandolin (track 10)
Jimmy Johnson – bass guitar (track 10)
Larry Paxton – upright bass (track 11)
Russ Kunkel – drums (tracks: 5, 10)
Scott Krauss – drums (track 6)
Jeffrey Fowlkes – drums (tracks: 7, 8)
Dan Higgins – saxophone (track 7)
Bill Reichenbach Jr. – saxophone (track 7)
Jerry Hey – trumpet (track 7)
Robert James Ritchie – executive producer
Andy VanDette – mastering
F. Scott Shafer – photography

Charts

Chart (2002)	Peak position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)^[4]	70
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[5]	92
US Billboard 200^[6]	43

Year-end charts

Chart (2002)	Position
Canadian Alternative Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)^[7]	186

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)^[8]	Gold	500,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Fuoco, Christina. "No Stranger to Shame - Uncle Kracker | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved January 23, 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c Sinclair, Tom (2002-09-27). "No Stranger to Shame Review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2012-05-04.
^ ^a ^b Lecaro, Lina (2002-10-13). "Quick Spins (Uncle Kracker: No Stranger to Shame)". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-12-23.
^ "Austriancharts.at – Uncle Kracker – Double Wide" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved January 23, 2020.
^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Uncle Kracker – Double Wide" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved January 23, 2020.
^ "Uncle Kracker Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved January 23, 2020.
^ "Canada's Top 200 Alternative albums of 2002". Jam!. Archived from the original on September 2, 2004. Retrieved March 28, 2022.
^ "American album certifications – UNCLE KRACKER – NO STRANGER TO SHAME". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved January 23, 2020.

External links

Uncle Kracker – No Stranger To Shame at Discogs (list of releases)

[Allmusic-1] Fuoco, Christina. "No Stranger to Shame - Uncle Kracker | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved January 23, 2020.

[EW-2] Sinclair, Tom (2002-09-27). "No Stranger to Shame Review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2012-05-04.

[LATimes-3] Lecaro, Lina (2002-10-13). "Quick Spins (Uncle Kracker: No Stranger to Shame)". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-12-23.

[ac_Austria_Uncle_Kracker-4] "Austriancharts.at – Uncle Kracker – Double Wide" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved January 23, 2020.

[ac_Germany4_Uncle_Kracker-5] "Offiziellecharts.de – Uncle Kracker – Double Wide" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved January 23, 2020.

[ac_Billboard200_Uncle_Kracker-6] "Uncle Kracker Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved January 23, 2020.

[7] "Canada's Top 200 Alternative albums of 2002". Jam!. Archived from the original on September 2, 2004. Retrieved March 28, 2022.

[RIAA-8] "American album certifications – UNCLE KRACKER – NO STRANGER TO SHAME". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved January 23, 2020.

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