Low

There have been plenty of songs about getting high, but not so many about getting low. In this song, David Lowery of Cracker tries to convince a girl to go down with him - not an easy sell. There are drug references all over this song - "junky cosmonaut," "A million poppies gonna make me sleep" - but especially in the chorus: I'll be with you, girl, like being low Hey, hey, hey like being stoned Lowery has never been clear on the meaning, but his record company did make him sign a letter saying that the lyric was "like being stone" in an effort to convince radio stations that the song was not about drugs.

This is the 1993 hit that put their album Kerosene Hat on the charts and Cracker on the world stage of alternative music. As can be glimpsed in the video, the album Kerosene Hat was recorded at a sound stage built in an old barn in Pioneertown, California. This is close to where lead singer David Lowery first met guitarist Johnny Hickman.

In our interview with Johnny Hickman, he explained how "Low" came together: "The song started with me coming up with that guitar riff just noodling around at a soundcheck in Portland one day, but it's really David's song. He wrote the title and lyrics after the fact, which are fantastic. David and Davey Faragher (bassist) started looking for chords to play around my guitar riff. A few days later David had the song completed."