| Seventy Two and Sunny | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Uncle Kracker |
| Cover: | 72_and_sunny.jpg |
| Released: | June 29, 2004 |
| Recorded: | 2003–2004 |
| Studio: | Chunky Style Music Studios, Los Angeles, California |
| Length: | 52:46 |
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| Prev Title: | No Stranger to Shame |
| Prev Year: | 2002 |
| Next Title: | Happy Hour |
| Next Year: | 2009 |
Seventy Two and Sunny is Uncle Kracker's third studio album, released on Lava Records on June 29, 2004. It is Uncle Kracker's first album not to receive a parental advisory sticker and to feature no rap songs. It is also his last to be released on Lava Records.
Seventy Two and Sunny was met with "mixed or average" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 52 based on 8 reviews.
Among the positive reviews is Chuck Kosterman's take in Spin Magazine, where he writes "You’d have to work pretty hard not to like these songs, though I’m sure some people will try", a reference to the fact that Uncle Kracker was never a critic's darling, despite his record sales.[1] In a review AllMusic, John Luerssen noted the album is "largely absent of originality", while going on to say "like the bulk of Uncle Kracker's second musical helping, it's dang hard to swallow." David Browne's mixed review in Entertainment Weekly said: "Kracker now sees himself as a scruffy Nashville troubadour, and on his third CD, he pulls off the conceit far better than [Kid] Rock has." On a critical note, Browne adds "Kracker's voice is too banal - and his material too mundane - to cut as deeply as his rural heroes."