Sand from the dirt lot at Pappy and Harriet's danced across the top of my boots as the desert winds picked up in the Mojave. A coyote might have sounded in the distance, the drown of the wind and band ...

If nothing else, the members of 1990s alt/punk band Cracker are survivors. Cofounders David Lowery and Johnny Hickman have been at it for almost a quarter of a century – amassing 10 studio albums, ...