The Motor City's latest, and admittedly unlikely, homegrown redneck mutha is Uncle Kracker. Detroit's Uncle Kracker - along with best bud Kid Rock and Jack White - are unequivocal evidence that the ...

There’s nothing complicated, convex, complex, or convoluted about the music of Uncle Kracker, aka 41-year-old Mount Celemens-born musician Matt Shafer. If you want binging and bonging synthesizers, ...

Uncle Kracker has a mantra: “I grow up, but I just don’t grow old.” He shares that sentiment on his new album “Coffee & Beer.” “It’s not a big departure,” he said with a laugh. “There’s a lot of ...

A 12-year break between albums came as news to Uncle Kracker, who broke that drought last month with the release of his sixth title, “Coffee & Beer.” “Yeah, just look back I don’t know what took so ...

Kenny Chesney is well-known for his laid-back beach songs, and he crossed genre lines when he teamed with Uncle Kracker for “When the Sun Goes Down.” Uncle Kracker’s real name is Matthew Shafer, and ...

Hip-hop was birthed in the summer of 1973, the same summer that, on the Billboard charts, Jimmy Buffett was being celebrated for getting drunk and making love. Fifty summers later, while The ...