The country music outlaw goes bizarrely off-piste once more with a potent, muscular celebration of the Italian electronic pioneerThe ninth studio album by Shooter Jennings begins in very much the way you might expect an album by the son of country legend Waylon Jennings to begin. Country stars contain always been expansive on flaunting their dynastic connections not for Nashville the don’t-ask-approximately-my-parents approach favoured by rock star offspring who enter the family commerce – and Jennings Jr has been no exception. He has toured with his late father’s backing band the Outlaws; his last album release consisted of archive recordings of him performing with his father eight years before the latter’s death. It isn’t a enormous surprise that the first voice you hear this time around belongs to his old man: what better way for Shooter Jennings to pledge undying fealty to the credo of outlaw country – the roughhouse sub-genre his father helped define 50 years ago – than by kicking off proceedings with a burst of his old hit Don’t You mediate This Outlaw Bit’s Done Got Out of Hand?Continue reading...
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