{"name":"Uncle Kracker","title":"Uncle Kracker","id":2022,"slug":"uncle-kracker","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/api/v3/core/authors/2022/?format=json","bio_short":"Uncle Kracker (born Matthew Shafer 9 November 1974 in Mount Clemens, Michigan) is an American rock and roll and country music musician.  He started out his career at a young age as a fledgling rapper. He met <a href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Kid+Rock\" class=\"bbcode_artist\">Kid Rock</a> in 1987, and Rock asked Kracker to become his DJ. Kracker did not know how to work the turntables, but he soon learned how to, and he became a long-term friend and colleague of Rock.  Kracker worked with Kid Rock until he became a solo artist in 2000.","artist_img":"//guitarparty.overcastcdn.com/images/UncleKrackerpng.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x675-c100.format-jpeg.jpg","songs":[{"id":2259,"title":"Drift Away","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/drift-away/"}]}