Electric Rodeo

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Shooter Jennings's 2005 debut, Put the "O" Back in Country, outlined the artistic differences--and similarities--between himself and his parents, Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter. This second time out, his tight, raw trio bristling behind him, his vocal roar remains less weathered, though he deliberately, momentarily evokes Waylon on "Some Rowdy Women," the darkly futile "Hair of the Dog," and "Little White Lines," a fearful, foreboding tale of cocaine abuse. His reflective, vulnerable side emerges on the sorrowful "The Song Is Slipping Away" and the painfully contrite ballad "Aviators." Sly humor drives a revival of Hank Williams Jr.'s "Living Proof" that begins by paying homage to the original, luring the listener into momentarily believing that Jennings, too, is desperate to free himself from a famous daddy's shadow. It is, of course, a brilliant fake-out. Near the song's end, he and the band flip right into the famous instrumental vamp Waylon used on so many of his hits, a wise-assed move worthy of Waylon himself. --Rich Kienzle

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Electric Rodeo continues and elaborates upon the themes that carried his debut album. Not to give away the thunder of Electric Rodeo, but it's a more adventurous and at once introspective venture.Some musical highlights include 'Little White Lines', a cocaine caution tale, and 'Aviators', a steel-guitar drenched tongue-in-cheek weeper. And Shooter is starting to sound a little more like his daddy in 'Some Rowdy Woman' in both lyrics and vocals. And particularly chilling is 'Living Proof', with the lyrics, "You ain't as good as your daddy, and you never will be." Universal. 2006., ISBN13: B000EPFD4Y ISBN10: B000EPFD4Y Material Type: audioCD