Shooter Jennings’ real name is Waylon, like his dad, who sang a bit, played a bit, generally did the legend-of-country-music thing a (fair) bit, and is a name to reckon with, to cast a shadow.
The son-of is a singer-songwriter, too, with quite a few albums under his belt but even more albums out there as a Grammy-winning producer. So, would Shooter Jennings, producer, have liked working with Waylon Jennings, singer-songwriter?
Shooter Jennings has found a treasure trove of his father Waylon’s unreleased music. Credit: Getty Images
“Oh my god, of course. Yes, of course,” says Shooter. “I would love to have worked with almost anyone from that era but, gosh, no one has ever asked me that, which makes me think, what would I say if I didn’t know him? Man, I don’t know. I would just be in awe of his journey and what he’s been through, and encourage him to do what he is doing. Keep going!”
Fate has made this almost real now as Shooter, having dived into the vast vault of his father’s independent recordings from the mid-’70s to the mid-’80s – a time when Waylon, now owning his work after breaking from the major labels, recorded non-stop – has found enough unreleased songs that, with a bit of a finessing by him, they are about to come out as a three-album release, beginning with Songbird (named after Waylon’s cover of the song from Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie) this month.
[SRC] https://www.smh.com.au/culture/music/so-much-heart-why-shooter-jennings-is-bringing-his-father-s-old-recordings-to-life-20250826-p5mpzn.html
