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SHOOTER JENNINGS
PUT THE O BACK IN COUNTRY
BY MIKAEL WOOD
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Shooter Jennings, the son of the late outlaw-country maverick Waylon Jennings, can’t resist the pull of the anti-Nashville libertinism that propelled his father through a 40-year career. In "Solid Country Gold," from his debut, he brags that "I was born in Nashville but I left there long ago, ’cause they built Music City by sacrificing soul." Fortunately, Shooter’s blanket distrust of the C&W biz isn’t rooted in the puritanical neo-conservatism that yields a new raft of lifeless alt-country albums every year; he just thinks stuff made in Nashville doesn’t rock hard enough, or doesn’t have enough dirty jokes. He’s wrong, of course, but who could decline a tune as winningly irreverent as "Busted in Baylor County," where Shooter and his band mates get stopped by a state trooper after "smokin’ up that California gold," only to be released by a judge who levies a fine of "a few autographs for you to sign"? Shooter Jennings + Toby Keith | Tweeter Center, Mansfield | August 27 | 617.228.6000
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