1. Waylon Albright "Shooter" Jennings was born on May 19,1979 and is an American musician and record producer.
39 Facts About Shooter Jennings
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Shooter Jennings is the son of country singers Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter.
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Shooter Jennings made his debut with the single "4th of July" of his 2005 album Put the "O" Back in Country on Universal South, which peaked at No 22 on the Billboard country charts.
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Shooter Jennings was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 19,1979.
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Shooter Jennings lived the first few years of his life in a crib on his parents' tour bus surrounded by the likes of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson.
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Shooter Jennings started playing guitar at 14 and on occasion he'd play percussion in his father's band.
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In high school Shooter Jennings fronted an industrial rock band called KilRaven for his high school's talent show.
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Shooter Jennings is the uncle of William Harness, Professionally known as Struggle Jennings.
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In 2001, Shooter Jennings left Nashville, Tennessee, to seek his fortunes in Los Angeles.
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Shooter Jennings assembled and performed with Stargunn, a rock band.
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On March 30,2003, Shooter Jennings dissolved Stargunn and began working on his solo career.
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Shooter Jennings returned to Los Angeles in 2004 to begin working on new material.
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In 2005 Shooter Jennings signed his first recording contract, with Universal South Records, releasing his debut album Put the "O" Back in Country that same year.
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Later that year his song "Busted In Baylor County" was then featured in the 2005 film version of The Dukes of Hazzard, furthermore Shooter Jennings portrayed his father in the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon.
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That same year Shooter Jennings was featured on a duet of "Good Hearted Woman" on Deana Carter's sixth studio album, The Chain.
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On March 23,2009, Shooter Jennings took part in CMT Crossroads, a television show in which two musicians are paired with one another and perform a small concert together for an intimate crowd.
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On May 1,2010, Shooter Jennings announced "Black Ribbons: The Living Album" on his Twitter account.
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In 2016, Shooter Jennings created and released a podcast series title "Beyond the Black" dealing with the topics and recording of Black Ribbons.
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In 2011, along with childhood friend and master pianist Erik Deutsch, Shooter Jennings formed The Triple Crown, a new backing band featuring Erik Deutsch on piano, Tony Leone on drums, Jeff Hill on bass, Jon Graboff on pedal steel, Eleanor Whitmore on fiddle and Chris Masterson on lead guitar.
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On March 13,2012, having signed a record deal with E1 Music, and with The Triple Crown along for the ride, Shooter Jennings returned to his country roots with the release of the album Family Man, his first self-produced outing.
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On July 31,2012, Shooter Jennings was featured in Bucky Covington's debut single "The Drinking Side of Country" from the album Good Guys.
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In October 2012 Shooter Jennings was one of six commentators for the Ovation mini-series Song By Song: Johnny Cash.
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The album was heavily featured in the 2nd season of The Punisher, of which Shooter Jennings appears, as himself.
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In October 2013, Shooter Jennings announced the formation of his new label and multi-format recording company, Black Country Rock.
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On February 27,2014, Shooter Jennings revealed he would be releasing a spoken word follow-up to Hierophant's 2010 album, Black Ribbons, titled The Magic, inspired by first story in the controversially interactive horror series thirteen.
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Towards the end of May 2014, Shooter Jennings announced his intention to release two EP's later in the year.
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Together with Dave Cobb, Shooter Jennings produced her 2018 album By the Way, I Forgive You, which landed six Grammy nominations, including the all-genre Album and Song of the Year categories.
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In late 2021 Shooter Jennings released "Leave Those Memories Alone", a tribute to his late friend and manager, Col.
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The record was initially slated for a 2017 release, but Shooter Jennings felt it was too "dark and experimental" to release at the time, given its subject matter and tone.
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Shooter Jennings collaborated as producer with Duff McKagan for his 2019 solo album, Tenderness.
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In March 2019, a tour was announced in support of the album, featuring Shooter Jennings band playing both the support slot as well as the headline slot as the backing band for Duff.
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Shooter Jennings has produced albums and tracks for numerous bands including Brandi Carlile, Marilyn Manson, Tanya Tucker and American Aquarium, as well as Jessi Colter, Jamey Johnson, Jaime Wyatt, The White Buffalo, Hellbound Glory, The Mastersons, Julie Roberts, Yelawolf, Jason Boland, Billy Don Burns, Avi Kaplan, Billy Ray Cyrus, and Angry Grandpa.
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Shooter Jennings's influences include David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hank Williams Jr.
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Marilyn Manson argued against Shooter Jennings's work being classified as country music, saying "southern" was a more appropriate classification, noting the latter " drags in a bit of the Stones, in a way".
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Shooter Jennings is the son of country music singers Waylon Shooter Jennings and Jessi Colter.
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Shooter Jennings has six half-siblings in total; five from his father, and one, Jennifer Eddy Harness, from his mother.
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On February 13,2002, Shooter Jennings's father died in his sleep of diabetic complications in Chandler, Arizona.
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Shooter Jennings was buried in the Mesa City Cemetery, in Mesa, Arizona.
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Shooter Jennings married long-time friend Misty Brooke Swain on June 4,2013, in Joshua Tree, California.