A second album, Electric Rodeo (which was actually recorded before Put the O Back in Country), appeared in 2006, followed by a live set, Live at Irving Plaza, later in the year. Following in his father's footsteps, but with his own feisty, scrappy sense of country, Jennings placed himself in a fine position to both explore that legacy and carve out his own. Jennings, and the band holed up in the studio, eventually emerging with a rambunctious country album called Put the O Back in Country, which was released in 2005 on Universal South Records. and put together a second band - this time with solid country roots - which he named the. circuit before Jennings rediscovered his outlaw country roots and dissolved the band.Īfter a short stay in New York, where Jennings assembled material for a country project, he returned to L.A. Stargunn earned a strong local reputation for its live shows, and enjoyed a six- or seven-year run on the L.A. Soon he moved from Nashville to L.A., where he assembled a rock band called Stargunn. He discovered guitar at 14 and rock & roll (particularly Southern rock and the loose-limbed hard rock of Guns N' Roses) at 16. Through it all, Shooter's gritty, passionate songwriting and vocals have remained a constant.īorn Waylon Albright Jennings, Shooter was playing drums by the time he was five years old and had already begun taking piano lessons, only to break them off and follow his own path to an understanding of the instrument. With his project Hierophant, Jennings explored his interest in metal and electronic music, while 2016's Countach paid homage to a seemingly unlikely influence, Euro-disco icon Giorgio Moroder. Shooter's music was strongly informed by both hard rock and outlaw country, with 2006's Electric Rodeo emphasizing the guitars and 2007's The Wolf playing up his twangy side. Shooter seemed destined for a career in music, and like his father, he established himself as an artist who played by his own rules from the start. The only son of country legends Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, Shooter Jennings literally spent his childhood on a tour bus.