Shooter Jennings

There was a time when rock bands recorded songs exclusively about sex, drugs and rock n’ roll, but in recent memory it seemed a bit cliché to sing about such excess. Well it looks like Shooter Jennings, son of country music legend Waylon, is aiming to bring that all back with his sophomore release, Electric Rodeo – but his take on it is a bit more earnest then his predecessors. It’s an album reminiscent of ones put out by bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Marshall Tucker Band – oh and his dad too. It’s equal parts southern rock and outlaw country filled with crunchy rock riffs and booze-y vocals.

The album opens with the title track describing the debauchery of life on the road, while “Hair of the Dog” is an ode to a long night of drinking and waking up to a sure fire hangover cure. While “Little White Lines” – a thinly veiled reference to cocaine – is a cautionary tale of drug abuse. Shooter even satirizes Redneck culture on the pedal steel drenched country ballad “Aviators” in a way that would make the Blue Collar comedy guys proud.

Shooter fits in nicely with the new crop of Southern rock acts that have been gaining a lot of notoriety over the last few years – i.e. Drive-By Truckers and My Morning Jacket - helping to define the new face of music in South.

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