72 and Sunny

1	This Time 3:41
2	Rescue 4:04
3	Further Down the Road 4:23
4	Don't Know How (Not to Love You) 4:10
5	What Do We Want? 3:34
6	Writing It Down 4:37
7	A Place at My Table 4:16
8	Some Things You Can't Take Back 4:11
9	Blues Man 3:19
10	Songs About Me, Songs About You 3:34
11	Please Come Home 3:59
12	You're Not Free 3:31
13	Last Night Again 5:27

Barnes & Noble

Detroit Rock City might not be the first place you'd think of when pondering spots to get totally mellow, but that's home to onetime Kid Rock sidekick Uncle Kracker (a.k.a. Matt Shafer), who takes a bit of a breather on this third solo release. 72 and Sunny is even more laid-back than his previous efforts, to the point where he collaborates with ballad mistress Diane Warren on "Rescue," a likeably loping paean to a lover on the verge of throwing in the towel on a relationship. The disc has a more overt country bent as well, most prominently displayed on "Last Night Again," a duet with Kenny Chesney (a return favor for Shafer's appearance on Chesney's hit single "When the Sun Goes Down"), but also on folksy offerings like the homespun "A Place at My Table" and "Some Things You Can't Take Back." Uncle K does get a little cranky now and again, taking on critics with the self-defending "Blues Man," but for the most part, 72 and Sunny lives up to its mild-mannered name, offering listeners warm, soothing breezes from end to end. David Sprague

All Music Guide

Few folks are on the fence about Kid Rock protégé Uncle Kracker. People either love him or hate him. With Seventy Two & Sunny, his third solo disc, the latter rule most often applies, as Kracker blatantly pilfers from the likes of Bob Seger, the Eagles, and others on tracks like "Further Down the Road." Largely absent of originality, Kracker brews up airwave-ripe albeit sugary lovelorn dreck like "Rescue" and the doo wop novelty "Please Come Home." That's not to say Seventy Two & Sunny is all annoyingly tepid, as the alluringly sunny "This Time" fuses country and classic rock with inexplicably pleasant results. Elsewhere, Uncle Kracker delivers "Writing It Down," an uplifting piano ballad that is too good to dismiss. He also teams up with hit country musician Kenny Chesney to reprise the, ahem, magic of that artist's "When the Sun Goes Down." John D. Luerssen