::Shooter Jennings and the .357s
::Live at Irving Plaza 4.18.06
::Universal South
I was lucky enough to attend this show at Irving plaza in New York City and I’m happy to report that this release includes most of the songs played and captures the beer soaked rowdy recklessness of the night.
What Shooter does here, with his fine band the .357s, is country-rock his way. In the fine tradition of the Allmans and Skynard he mines the sprit of rebellion of both genres instead of the blandness that might occur (Eagles anyone?). The balls-out approach to tales of Texas drug busts (“Busted in Baylor County” with a nice tip-of-the-hat to Black Sabbath “Sweet Leaf,” in the bridge and “Steady at the Wheel” and the smooth and steady “Gone to Carolina” and “Southern Comfort” show the wide palette Shooter uses to paint his own musical landscape.
I don’t know if Shooter will ever rise to the legendary level of his daddy but he’s already on his wayto blazing his own outlaw trail.
Shooter will be returning to the scene of the crime, Irving Plaza N.Y.C., on 11/4 with The Watson Twins (as in “Jenny and…” and Brooklyn neo-folkies Oakley Hall.
EDIT – On mutiple listens my one gripe is that the CD is too brief and should have been 2 CDs. That is all.