Crack a smile and more by poison

The album features guitarist Blues Saraceno, who was hired as the band's new lead guitarist following the firing of Richie Kotzen in late Saraceno appeared on the band's last album release Poison's Greatest Hits: — in , which featured two new tracks with him on lead guitar. Those two new tracks re-appear on this album along with thirteen new songs and five bonus tracks.

The album moved around 12, copies in its first week of release to debut at on The Billboard album chart. Crack a Smile , while replete with guitar performances comparable with those on Poison's previous studio record, Native Tongue , contains few traces of the seriousness of that record. The life cycle of Crack a Smile , which began in , was brought to an abrupt halt in May , when vocalistBret Michaels lost control of his Ferrari.

Michaels suffered a broken nose, ribs, jaw and fingers, and lost four teeth. After his recovery, the band continued recording in However, to the group's dismay, Capitol Records had by this time decided to put the album 'on hold', and instead released a Greatest Hits record in In order to compete with the bootleg release, Capitol took the unusual step of throwing in additional bonus tracks to the album.

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