Shooter Jennings - Electric Rodeo
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Artist: Shooter JenningsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-04-04
Music Label: Universal South
Soundtracks:
- Electric Rodeo
- Gone To Carolina
- Some Rowdy Women
- The Song Is Still Slipping Away
- Hair Of The Dog
- Little White Lines
- Alligator Chomp (The Ballad Of Martin Luther Frog Jr.)
- Manifesto No.2
- Aviators
- Bad Magick
- (The) Living Proof
Music reviews of Electric Rodeo
Music Review: Jennings Gallops Between Two Diabolical Tensions
Rating: 4 Stars
Prime Cuts: Aviators, Some Rowdy Women, The Song is Still Slipping Away
2006 is indeed the year of the Jennings! With copious compilations planned from Daddy Waylon's vast catalog, a brand new release by Mommy Jennings a.k.a. Jessi Colter in over 20 years, and this sophomore release from son Shooter, this is indeed a year of Jennings galore. Making little or no concession to country radio, "Electric Rodeo" finds Jennings going full Monty with his brand of Van Zandt-style Southern rock buttressed with earth shattering drums and that occasional nod to Waylon's honky-tonk balladry. Lyrically, the album vectors towards the darker suprcillious lifestyle with an effervescent indulgence in hedonism and wasteful squander to partying. This means there's no Hallmark inspired platitudes of romanticism or those little cursory homilies that so saturate today's country music. Rather, Jennings bares his soul without being apologetic of his prodigal ways, one that is given to drugs, rowdy women and heavy drinking.
As Jennings has suggested in a recent interview, the CD is front loaded with more personal tunes. But, when Jennings says "personal:" do not expect those maudlin and tepid tales of domestic bliss. For when Jennings longs for home on "Some Rowdy Woman," a subdued honky-tonk ballad, he is thinking of the chippies at Hooters to "pacify my mind." Though he does feel the transience of such a profligate way of life on the laidback "The Song is Slipping Away," but there's still an air of rugged defiant in Jennings' vocal nuances. And this is seen in its full glory on the roiling title track, where Jennings pushes all the buttons of riving hard-rock making him a graduate of the Jimmy Page/early Zep school.
The second half of the CD continues such a defiant rowdyism. With strokes of graphic ingenuity, Jennings paints for us a grotesque picture of the morning after a night of being wasted on "Hair of the Dog." Taking an unabashed asylum in herbs and shots, "Little White Lines" has a sad disposition that calls to mind those deciduous hippie days of the 60s. Just when you thought this rocker is full of hubris on the highway of booze and wild women, he does slow down for a moment of regret on "Aviators." Here, on this melodramatic ballad, this outlaw apologizes to his lady for getting drunk and hitting on your mom, slashing your daddy's tires and accidentally shooting your dog while hunting and telling you he ran away.
A diabolical tension exists in these 11 paeans: on one hand, Jennings realizes the transitory nature of wild living. On the other hand, he seems haunted by these ghosts associated with riding the "electric rodeo." It all seems not too long ago when Waylon Jennings' recorded a kids' CD "Cowboys, Sisters, Rascals and Dirt" for Shooter. And in the matter of these few years, this little "rascal" as Waylon would affectingly call, is now an octave-charged rebel. I guess that's the price for galloping the electric rodeo.
Description of Electric Rodeo
Tracks include: 1. Electric Rodeo 4:32 2. Gone To Carolina 4:05 3. Some Rowdy Women 3:12 4. The Song Is Still Slipping Away 3:09 5. Hair Of The Dog 4:01 6. Little White Lines 5:29 7. Alligator Chomp (The Ballad Of Dr. Martin Luther Frog Jr.) 3:10 8. Manifesto No. 2 2:09 9. Aviators 3:23 10. Bad Magick 5:11 11. It Ain't Easy 3:05Shooter 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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