Shooter Jennings - The Wolf
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Artist: Shooter JenningsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-10-23
Music Label: Universal South
Soundtracks:
- This Ol Wheel
- Tangled Up Roses
- Walk Of Life
- Old Friend
- Slow Train
- Time Management 101
- Concrete Cowboys
- Higher
- Blood From a Stone
- Last Time I Let You Down
- She Lives In Color
- The Wolf
- A Matter Of Time
Music reviews of The Wolf
Music Review: Shooter's best yet!
Rating: 5 Stars
The Wolf
Shooter Jennings
Universal South
This third studio album by Shooter Jennings shows significant development as an artist while showing more of the rough-edged flavor of his first two. While just as gritty in parts as Put the O Back in Country and Electric Rodeo, The Wolf delves into the complications of life and love in a more mature fashion.
I've always been fascinated by songwriters and the first thing I look at on an album is the writers' credits. Shooter has now recorded three albums comprised of material written by him and his band plus three covers by gentlemen he's known from his childhood--Neil Young ("Are You Ready for the Country"), Hank Williams Jr. ("Living Proof") and Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits ("Walk of Life"). Given that most of today's country artists are buying Cadillacs for Craig Wiseman, John Rich and Jeffrey Steele, I think that's pretty impressive--especially since Shooter's only 28.
Opener "This Ol' Wheel" is getting dissed by some for being "rap" when the song actually harkens back to Johnny Cash's "One Piece at a Time" or Charlie Daniels' "Devil Went Down to Georgia." It's Shooter looking back at where he's been and ahead to where he's going while revealing the pain of the process.
One thing I found conspicuously missing from Shooter's first two albums was a traditional love song. "Tangled Up Roses" definitely qualifies, telling the tale of a tumultuous relationship where the ferocity of the fights just makes the making-up sweeter. "Hank and Audrey fight" has to be one of the most spot-on phrases I've heard in a long time. "The Last Time I Let You Down," written by bass player Ted Russel Kamp, is a heartbreaking look at regret over past mistakes.
"Walk of Life" is one of my favorite Dire Straits songs and Shooter effectively "countrifies" it with fiddle and steel. "Old Friend" is a song I can totally relate to because I have an old friend and we've been keeping each other together since high school. "Slow Train," written by former band member Leroy Powell, is already a crowd favorite at Shooter's concerts and the Oak Ridge Boys provide their trademark killer harmonies. "Time Management 101" is pure vintage Bocephus and one of my absolutely favorite cuts on this album. It's so effervescently catchy you can't help but sing along.
"Concrete Cowboys" is bound to remind you of some of Waylon's 70s tunes like "Ladies Love Outlaws" and "My Heroes have Always Been Cowboys" but Shooter paints this landscape with his own characters. "Higher" marks the songwriting debut of drummer Bryan Keeling and it's a politically incorrect look at the women you meet on the road from a musician's jaded point of view. You'll either find this song rollicking fun or get all offended. In the latter case, I hear Rascall Flats has a new album out that should be right up your alley.
Both "Blood From A Stone" and "She Lives in Color" look at relationships, the later spiced with some tasty "Ring of Fire" style horns and a chorus you can't get out of your head. Title song "The Wolf" is my favorite song on this album so far, a scorching look at feeling like an outsider. "A Matter of Time" is the song that took the longest to grow on me, a trilogy Shooter described as "boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy goes crazy." It's definitely the most complex song on the album.
As much as I love Shooter's first two albums, both took a little getting used to at first. This one grabbed me from the first listen. I hope it does that for a lot of fans old and new because Shooter is a talent that deserves to be heard--and a welcome breath of fresh air in a musical genre grown stale.
Description of The Wolf
Tracks include: 1. This Ol Wheel 3:42 2. Tangled Up Roses 3:23 3. Walk Of Life 3:57 4. Old Friend 4:52 5. Slow Train 3:40 6. Time Management 101 2:42 7. Concrete Cowboys 3:27 8. Higher 3:20 9. Blood From A Stone 3:03 10. Last Time I Let You Down 3:25 11. She Lives In Color 3:17 12. The Wolf 4:01 13. A Matter Of Time 6:04It begins with an eerie bit of original autobiography called "This Ol' Wheel," as Jennings, invoking the same no-frills sound of his earlier albums, barrels through a collection of largely self-penned numbers. He invokes the waltz-tempos his dad used so effectively on "Old Friend," creatively punctuated with pedal steel and Mariachi horns. "A Little More Time on You" remains the simplest sort of country lament, even with the R&B horns. He takes another interesting detour with a rough-edged, decidedly countrified remake of Dire Straits' "Walk of Life," a tune so identified with that band and Mark Knopfler that it's difficult to imagine someone else tackling it. While Jennings doesn't surpass the original, his rendition is both effective and unique. The more pensive "Concrete Cowboys" and slicker "Blood From a Stone" is as close as he has (and likely will) come to smoothing his sound. It's true that Shooter hasn't achieved stardom close to Waylon's. Yet he's cultivated an audience by ignoring Nashville's smarmy trendiness and carving his own niche. Come to think of it, that's also what Waylon did. --Rich Kienzle
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