Shooter Jennings, Boss Caine, Simon Snaize

Ticket: £16.00 Buy Now
Doors: 7.30pm
Age: 14+

“Most dangerous, most deceptive artist in the overall country music world right now” – Saving Country Music.

SHOOTER JENNINGS (born Waylon Albright Jennings in ’79) is one of the most important American country music singers right now.. The only child of original outlaw country legend Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter. His father nicknamed him “Shooter” after he urinated on a nurse shortly after birth.

Shooter Jennings lived his first few years in a crib on his parents’ tour bus and by age five, he was playing drums. Between tours, he took piano lessons, started guitar at fourteen and played and recorded in Dad’s band. He discovered rock n roll …

As an adult, Jennings left Nashville, Tennessee to seek his fortune in Los Angeles, assembling Stargunn, ‘Lynyrd Skynyrd meets Guns N’ Roses’, gathering a rabid following for six years but he says, “I was posing as a rocker; a country guy trying to be something he wasn’t.”

A move to New York City and an unexpected gig at the House of Blues a few weeks later revived his creativity and he returned to L.A. to form The 357s and release debut 2005 solo album Put The O Back In Country. Think about that title and you’re beginning to understand where our hero is coming from!

Shooter portrayed his father in the Johnny Cash biopic, Walk the Line, and currently runs his own show on outlaw country channel Sirius Satellite.

For Shooter Jennings, the current landscape of outlaw-inspired country lacks the fiercely independent spirit of his iconic father and the gang of musicians originally given that name. Seemingly always at odds with the mainstream, Jennings portrays himself more as an outsider by choice through a mix of Americana roots/rock, traditional country and a strong dose of 1970s psychedelia.

Drawing on legends such as Jimmie Rogers and George Jones but not above cow-punk (“The White Trash Song” features Scott H. Biram), our man is most at home in the counter-culture where the likes of Patty Griffin and Jim Dandy (Black Oak Arkansas) queue up to guest.

This is one heckuva show; and yet another legend coming to Fibbers. Tickets are sure to be at premium!