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Shooter Jennings Previews Trove of Unreleased Material by His Dad, Waylon, at L.A. Father’s Day Party With Charley Crockett and Other Friends
Shooter Jennings held a birthday party for Waylon Jennings at the Viper Room, previewing an unreleased album and performing with Charley Crockett.
If four months out from the release date seems slightly early for a listening party, there was a harmonic convergence Shooter couldn’t resist: Monday was his dad’s 88th birthday, directly coinciding with Father’s Day. It was put down at the time by Jennings and his drummer/co-producer Richie Albright, with such additional guests as pedal steel guitarist Ralph Mooney, singer-songwriter Tony Joe White and Waylon’s wife (and Shooter’s mother), Jessi Colter. “Just having won the David-and-Goliath battle against RCA for creative control and artistic freedom, Waylon was awarded the ability to record his music on his terms in his own studios, with his touring band, and without label oversight and without any outside influence.”
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