No Stranger to Shame

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Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
Entertainment Weekly	B−
Los Angeles Times

No Stranger to Shame is the second studio album by Uncle Kracker. It is the follow-up album to his double-platinum debut Double Wide. It is currently Uncle Kracker's only album to have two charting singles on the Billboard Hot 100 ("In a Little While" and "Drift Away"). It is last album to receive a parental advisory label and his last to feature rap rock songs.

Music

The music of No Stranger to Shame, like its predecessor, features an eclectic sound broadly categorized as rock by Allmusic, and as Southern rock by Entertainment Weekly. The album also incorporates elements of hip hop and country.

Track listing

• All songs composed by Uncle Kracker (credited as Matthew Shafer) and Mike Bradford unless noted.

1. "Keep It Comin'" – 3:21
2. "Thunderhead Hawkins" – 3:47
3. "In a Little While" – 4:09
4. "I Wish I Had a Dollar" – 4:03
5. "Drift Away" (Mentor Williams) – 4:15
6. "Baby Don't Cry" – 4:27
7. "I Do" – 3:11
8. "Memphis Soul Song" (Martin Gross, Shafer, Bradford) – 3:57
9. "I Don't Know" – 3:57
10. "To Think I Used to Love You" – 3:28
11. "Letter to My Daughters" (David Allan Coe, Shafer, Bradford) – 3:08
12. "No Stranger to Shame" – 8:27

Personnel

• Richard Baker – piano
• Jimmie Bones – organ, piano, background vocals
• Mike Bradford – bass guitar, drums, guitar, keyboards, background vocals
• Dobie Gray – vocals on "Drift Away"
• Beth Hart – background vocals
• Jerry Hey – trumpet
• Dan Higgins – saxophone
• Jimmy Johnson – bass guitar
• Uncle Kracker – lead vocals
• Russ Kunkel – drums
• Mark McGrath – vocals on "No Stranger to Shame"
• Dean Parks – guitar
• Larry Paxton – upright bass
• Bill Reichenbach Jr. – saxophone
• Wanda Vick – dobro, fiddle, mandolin