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1 You Don't Have to Love Me Beavers 3:42
2 Recognize My Friend Hill/Popper/Sexsmit 3:48
3 Devil in the Details Kinchla/Popper/Sexs 3:34
4 All Things Are Possible Kinchla/Popper 3:33
5 Things Are Looking Up Kinchla/Popper/Sexs 4:24
6 Love Is Everything (That I Describe) Popper/Sexsmith 2:20
7 I Don't Wanna Go Popper/Rodriguez 3:51
8 Nobody Fall in Love with Me Popper 3:10
9 Cover Me Wilson 3:27
10 Saving Grace Barron 3:41
11 Big City Girls Beavers/Kinchla/Pop 3:26
12 Cara Let the Moon Popper 3:25
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Suzie Cracks the Whip

Audio Compact Disc

Label: 429 Records

Category: Pop/Rock

Suzie Cracks the Whip

UPC: 795041785626

Release Date: 06/26/2012

Original Release Date: 06/26/2012

Number of Discs: 1

Tracks: [You Don't Have to Love Me, Recognize My Friend, Devil in the Details, All Things Are Possible, Things Are Looking Up, Love Is Everything (That I Describe), I Don't Wanna Go, Nobody Fall in Love with Me, Cover Me, Saving Grace, Big City Girls, Cara Let the Moon]
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Last time around, way back in 2008, Blues Traveler decided to go all in on AAA pop on North Hollywood Shootout -- a move that didn't result in the group burning up the charts, but it did provide a launching pad for 2012's pop-tastic Suzie Cracks the Whip. Not quite as mellow as North Hollywood Shootout, Suzie Cracks the Whip is constructed out of songs with pointed pop hooks, riffs, and melodies that recall their mid-'90s heyday without explicitly rewriting "Run Around." Best of this batch is the urgent "Cover Me," a song powered by an organ riff that could be called garagey if it were slightly greasier, but there is a welcome lightness and a touch of bluesy grit to a lot of this material: "Saving Grace" grooves on a widescreen riff and "Devil in the Details" flirts with funk, as does "Things Are Looking Up." That song is derailed by a singsong chorus, a trademark flaw of Popper's that also wounds "Big City Girls," an otherwise effervescent piece of roots-pop, but such minor irritations are offset by Blues Traveler's easy touch with reggae on "All Things Are Possible" and a strong duet with Crystal Bowersox on "I Don't Wanna Go." Such mild stylistic excursions add variety on this chipper, tuneful album, but that bright melodicism is the very thing that makes Suzie Cracks the Whip the most appealing Blues Traveler album in many a moon. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi