Showing posts with label Hank Jr.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hank Jr.. Show all posts
Aug 29, 2018
Shooter Jennings is Back With His Best Record in Years
By Robert Dean
It takes a lot of time, patience, and mistakes to realize who you are as a man. From the way we get knocked down, to what we do next when the dust settles, all of those moments matter, they say something about us, what stock we’re built from.
Throughout Shooter Jennings career, he’s made it a point always to turn left when his peers go right, to duck and dodge, when everyone else is out there trying to sing a little ditty to sell a few Dodges. He’s a man you cannot put a label on, because the minute you try, he’ll outwit you and drop a surprise you never saw coming.
On his latest record, Shooter, Jennings has done it again. He’s made the album no one expected, except this time, some ghosts are lingering of a different variety. Shooter isn’t a record Jennings could have made when I first met him almost ten years ago, instead, that Shooter Jennings was channeling his inner Trent Reznor, he was finding new and beautiful ways to fuck with anyone who thought they knew him.
On Black Ribbons, Shooter Jennings wrote a concept record that has flashes of brilliance that hit harder today than we could have foreseen at the time. The fact that that album lies dormant in a lot of rock and roll minds is a crime, but hopefully, history will be on Jennings side, and he’ll get the credit he deserves.
Following that record, Jennings stayed close to country, writing records like Family Man or The Other Life, which are strong genre records, but they still had a flavor of angst, a shadowy, “can I crank up the gain a little here”, or “can I try this concept on them” there. Straight ahead country records, they were not. While solid, that era of Jennings career wasn’t his most pure; it was a time of growth and personal observation, which in the greater catalog, we can see the direct impact of.
On Shooter though, everything feels different. There’s no way, the guy who wrote Black Ribbons could have sat down and written “Born to Git Down” – Shooter is a portrait into a man who’s come to terms with his abilities, goals, and what he’s after. You can’t write a bunch of feel-good tunes that go hard with the beers, without a sense of purpose, and humility, otherwise, it comes off contrived and douchey, AKA most of the garbage pop country radio pedals.
Collectively, Shooter is Jennings best record. It’s fun, it’s loud, and it’s carefree. There’s elements of boogie-woogie, Motown, pure rock and roll, and a lot of heart. “Do You Love Texas” should be a new Lone Star anthem given it’s unabashed, bold, and in your face, which are all things Texans love. My new hobby is to pull the song up on a TouchTunes jukebox, and then watch people walk up to see the track, and immediately put it on their phones.
“Denim & Diamonds” calls back to Hank Jr’s “Outlaw Woman” a solid beer tune, good for the dark bar, and those drinks you have alone when the day’s been just a little too long for small talk.
I appreciate and applaud Shooter Jennings for reaching inside of himself and owning his legacy and his past. I hope the world around him, and the country radio program managers take a risk and add a few of the tunes off Shooter, if anything, as an effort to save their souls, because Shooter is fun, it’s reckless, and it’s pure country music that is without false pretense. If you can’t kick up your heels to “D.R.U.N.K,” you need to take those boots right off the dance floor, mate.
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Shooter is available everywhere you ingest fine music.
Aug 24, 2018
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May 9, 2018
Little Known Facts: May '18
In his teens, Jason Aldean was dropped by a vocal trainer who told Aldean's parents it was like trying to teach a legless man soccer
The greatest Lynyrd Skynyrd cover band is Lynyrd Skynyrd
The average Rascal Flatts fan is average
Evidently Bebe Rexha is not the subject of an early 90’s animated movie written by Reginald Hudlin
The bootleg Hank Jr. shirts on Facebook are sold by Hank Jr.
Cody Jinks, Whitey Morgan, and Ward Davis tour together so often so they can get the group discount at the beard groomer
Reba McEntire is the first Colonel Sanders to not have a cock, but only because she is allergic to feathers
Turns out, Blake Shelton is the jackass
The previous country fact was brought to you by The NFL Keurig Starbucks Yeti Nordstrom Netflix Oreos Dick's Pepsi TJ Maxx Lou's AR-15 n' Whiskey Shack
I was going to write the 500th fact that points out Shooter Jennings is short but I wanted to bring Farce the Music to new heights
Sam Hunt recently announced a winter 2018 Mexican tour starting on November 1, 2018
Blind item: Texas singer who recently signed with a major label uses full body pillows for his head
Early reports are that Chris Stapleton is the favorite to be named NBA Rookie of the Year
Support of a border wall by Congress has reached an all time high as long as it can be completed by November 2, 2018
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Most of these by Jeremy Harris, but especially *that* one; you know the one.
Mar 14, 2018
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Jul 26, 2017
This Guy Defends Mainstream Country
Listen, you must not be hearing my local country station cause I here chicks on their all the time. At least once every four hours they play one and it's to much if you asked me. They all have whiny voices and they don't sing about the stuff I like. I mean, I'm not a sexiest, but women are supposed to be pop singers like Britany Spears, and not sing about hard, gritty country stuff like trucks and punching dudes.
Onto Sam Hunt now. He is a country singer weather you like it our not. Just because your old like 37 or something and wish all country songs we're still about crying in a bear or divorcing your cheating skank, doesn't mean us younger people wanna here about that stuff. Sit your old ass down and listen to you're eight track tapes with Tammy McEntire or whoever. I'm a country fan and Sam Hunt sings about things I expereeyence every day of my life like house parties and doing chicks on backroads. Jealous past your prime jerks just shut up. I hate pop music so clearly Sam Hunt isn't pop. I know my shit.
All these arguments just get old. You say the same things over and over:
Like "Where's the steal guitar?"
LMAO, TF is that.
"Where's the fiddle?"
You talking bout a violin's redneck cousin, bro? Nobody wanna hear that mess.
"There just appealing to young girls?"
And? Long as my girl is happy and in the mood, I'll listen too what ever she likes. If she looking hot and wanna call a Motly Crew song country, she can do it and you can step son.
So in summery, your stupid if you think what they plays on the radio now isn't real country music. Would some body in a position of authartity lie? Of course not. If Hank Williams Junyer was still alive he'd be making party music like FGL, and you know he would.
Get TF out of here with your salty old crusty head ass. I'm out hear tryna get my drink on and just have a good time and that's what country radio wants me to have to. Next your going to tell me that Lil Yachty isn't real rap music.
Jun 7, 2017
Jan 18, 2017
Old-School Country Fan Who Just Heard of Sturgill Simpson Disappointed by Sturgill Simpson
Vaguely recalling someone calling "some guy with a weird name like that" the savior of country music a few years back, Renner relented after a friend said he might like Simpson's music and that he was appearing on SNL. Renner stayed up past his usual 8 pm bedtime to suffer through "them perverted liberals telling jokes" in order to hear the supposed "country music Jesus." He says his jaw dropped open, spilling several ounces of Miller High Life when Simpson began to perform.
"That ain't how Hank Jr. done it," exclaimed Renner. "This guy had some fruity little jazz band and a crackhead playing an organ and not a fiddle in sight."
Somehow managing to make it another few minutes longer for Simpson's second tune, Renner was even more offended by the rollicking, sweaty performance of "A Call to Arms."
"Is this what they're calling country music these days?" asks Jimmy Lee. "Is he on tour with Luke Bryant or Cole Hunt or whoever? See this is why I never trust anybody but me about what's what. I half expected uh… who's that popular rap singer now? uh, LL Smoothe J to come out and hip hop around on a verse."
When told about Cody Jinks upcoming appearance on Conan, Renner stated "I don't know who Cody Jinks is and I only watch Leno ...once in a while."
Oct 19, 2016
Trick or Treat Goodies of the Country Stars
What can your little ghoul or goblin expect to receive in their plastic
jack-o-lantern if you drop by the homes of country stars this upcoming
Halloween? Well, FTM has the exclusive* scoop!
*not real
Sep 16, 2016
Country Graphic Design Nerd Humor
So of course I had to make a bunch of my own typeface/country song mashups.
Random and nerdy, but what else would you expect from us?
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