Editing Cracker (band) (section)

===2000s===
A compilation album called ''[[Garage D'Or]]'' was released in 2000, with one disc composed of greatest hits and three new songs, and another of out-takes, soundtrack contributions, demos and other obscurities. Rupe departed in January 2000 and was replaced by bass guitarist Brandy Wood. In 2002, the band released its next studio album, ''[[Forever (Cracker album)|Forever]]'' which, once again, met with limited commercial success.

The group left Virgin in 2003 with the independent release ''[[Countrysides (album)|Countrysides]]'', composed of eight [[country and western music|country and western]] covers and one new original song. A collaboration with the [[Bluegrass music|bluegrass]] band [[Leftover Salmon]], ''[[Oh Cracker, Where Art Thou? (album)|Oh Cracker, Where Art Thou?]]'' (2003), contained bluegrass versions of many Lowery and Hickman compositions. In 2005, Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven started an annual three-night "Campout" at Pappy and Harriet's Pioneertown Palace in [[Pioneertown, California]], close to where Lowery and Hickman met, in which they and several other bands perform, including sets by Cracker and Camper band members performing their own music. Previous years' guests have included [[Roger Clyne]], [[John Doe (musician)|John Doe]], [[Neko Case]], [[Ike Reilly]], [[Ryan Bingham]], [[Vermillion Lies]], [[Jason Molina]] and Magnolia Electric Co, [[Built To Spill]], [[Brant Bjork]] and the Bros, [[Clem Snide]], [[Gram Rabbit]] and The [[Bellrays]].

With Camper Van Beethoven bass guitarist [[Victor Krummenacher]] replacing Wood, the band released the studio album ''[[Greenland (album)|Greenland]]'' on June 6, 2006, and continued to tour extensively. After the departures of Margolis and Krummenacher, the band's lineup stabilized in 2007 around Hickman, Lowery, Funaro and new bass guitarist Sal Maida, who had played with [[Roxy Music]].

Cracker released a new studio album entitled ''[[Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey]]'' to positive reviews on May 5, 2009. It was the band's first chart on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] in more than a decade, after having sold more than 3,000 copies in a week. This was in part due to the [[Triple-A radio|Triple A]] chart success of the album's lead single, "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out With Me," which was used in the television show ''[[Californication (TV series)|Californication]]''.