The first official single from the forthcoming album, “The Deed and the Dollar,” again reached the top spot in the daily CMT request competition. It reached the top spot on CMT’s daily audience request competition and stayed there until a dispute with his former label dictated it be removed. In urgent fashion, Jennings and the Triple Crown began recording they released the video/download-only single “Outlaw You,” his screed against the country music establishment. He and pianist Erik Deutsch formed a new band called the Triple Crown, and he became a father for the second time in April, to Waylon Albert “Blackjack” Jennings. Jennings also moved to New York City with De Matteo. It gained traction, and a channel on Sirius/XM where both men served as program hosts. In early 2011, Jennings and blogger Adam Sheets came up with the idea of creating XXX, a new radio format that would focus on insurgent country, rock, and hybrids of both, from new and established artists, that fell far outside the narrow conceits of mainstream radio and were thus ignored. It featured the studio record and live performances by Hierophant. The second version was sold on a USB flash drive in the shape of a Tarot card. Later in the year, the album was re-released in a special edition entitled Black Ribbons: The Living Album. Jennings renamed his backing band Hierophant for his fourth studio album, Black Ribbons, a dark concept record influenced by Nine Inch Nails and produced by Dave Cobb. He proposed to De Matteo in 2009 on-stage in Utica, New York. His girlfriend, actress Drea De Matteo, gave birth to Alabama Gypsy Rose in November. Jennings’ third solo effort, The Wolf, was released in October 2007, featuring a cover of Dire Straits’ “Walk of Life” (whose composer, Mark Knopfler, had been a longtime family friend). A second album, Electric Rodeo (which was actually recorded before Put the O Back in Country), appeared in 2006, followed by a live set, Live at Irving Plaza, later in the year. Following in his father’s footsteps, but with his own feisty, scrappy sense of country, Jennings placed himself in a fine position to both explore that legacy and carve out his own. Jennings, and the band holed up in the studio, eventually emerging with a rambunctious country album called Put the O Back in Country, which was released in 2005 on Universal South Records. and put together a second band - this time with solid country roots - which he named the.
circuit before Jennings rediscovered his outlaw country roots and dissolved the band.Īfter a short stay in New York, where Jennings assembled material for a country project, he returned to L.A. Stargunn earned a strong local reputation for its live shows, and enjoyed a six- or seven-year run on the L.A.
Soon he moved from Nashville to L.A., where he assembled a rock band called Stargunn. He discovered guitar at 14 and rock & roll (particularly Southern rock and the loose-limbed hard rock of Guns N’ Roses) at 16. Through it all, Shooter’s gritty, passionate songwriting and vocals have remained a constant.īorn Waylon Albright Jennings, Shooter was playing drums by the time he was five years old and had already begun taking piano lessons, only to break them off and follow his own path to an understanding of the instrument. With his project Hierophant, Jennings explored his interest in metal and electronic music, while 2016’s Countach paid homage to a seemingly unlikely influence, Euro-disco icon Giorgio Moroder. Shooter’s music was strongly informed by both hard rock and outlaw country, with 2006’s Electric Rodeo emphasizing the guitars and 2007’s The Wolf playing up his twangy side.
Shooter seemed destined for a career in music, and like his father, he established himself as an artist who played by his own rules from the start. The only son of country legends Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, Shooter Jennings literally spent his childhood on a tour bus. November 10, 2016, along with recording his album, shooter took the time to stop and see the concrete handprints of his father, Waylon Jennings. Shooter Jennings used to attend the club with his father, Waylon Jennings and his mother, Jessi Colter, as a child.