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Artist: Release: The Other Life
MusicBrainz: 08845dcc-a20b-44ed-8c30-20456868d3bb
Released: 2013-03-12
Label: Black Country Rock
Country: US
rock, country, alternative.country, outlaw.country

Tracklisting:

01. Flying Saucer Song (03:37)
02. A Hard Lesson to Learn (03:34)
03. The White Trash Song (featuring Scott H. Biram) (05:08)
04. Wild and Lonesome (featuring Patty Griffin) (04:07)
05. Outlaw You (04:19)
06. The Other Life (03:42)
07. The Low Road (03:04)
08. Mama, It's Just My Medicine (05:07)
09. The Outsider (03:10)
10. 15 Million Light-Years Away (featuring Jim Dandy) (05:20)
11. The Gunslinger (06:30)

The new Shooter Jennings album ΓÇ¥The Other LifeΓÇ¥ is a conversation starter. Specifically it is a catalyst for two related reflections. The first is family. The second is the current state of the Country Music industry. With Nashville as a hub, these two conversations create a coherent theme.

With respect to family, we see Jennings embracing his bloodlines in a manner that is uncommon for artists who are the progeny of legends. Typically the children of famous entertainers either distance themselves from their parents (often to the point of disdain), or crumble under the weight of their name. To the contrary, Shooter Jennings seems proud of his legacy, and uses his fatherΓÇÖs dogged independence to give the finger to the current Country Music establishment. On ΓÇÿOutsiderΓÇ¥ he compares his outlaw spirit to his fatherΓÇÖs, ΓÇ£I am the outsider. A horse with no riderΓÇ¥. The real stab at the current landscape of Country Music comes on ΓÇ£Outlaw YouΓÇ¥, on which he taunts , ΓÇ£Hey pretty boy in your baseball hat. You couldnΓÇÖt hit Country with a baseball batΓÇ¥. He also references his father, who in the early 70ΓÇÖs ΓÇ£busted down the doorΓÇ¥ and busted the formula of the Nashville record executives. On the same song, he fast forwards to today as he bemoans that ΓÇ£All these years later the suits got back their gripΓÇ¥.

ΓÇ£The Other LifeΓÇ¥, does not get bogged down in the politics of Country Music History. There is a balanced mix of Outlaw Country and Rock. He also is joined by other singers such as Patty Griffin (ΓÇ£Wild and LonesomeΓÇ¥) and Scott H. Biram (ΓÇ£The White Trash SongΓÇ¥). With his own vision of the future and a nod the past, we see Shooter Jennings standing above the crowd as he hits his stride.