20 years ago: Publish shooter Jennings “put the” O “back into the country”.

Only a few if someone would try to say it was one of the biggest country albums of all time. Officially, one cannot even say that it is a pioneering publication of underground or independent Country because it was distributed on a large label. But the debut Country album from Shooter Jennings called Put the 'o' back into the country (Published on March 1, 2005) was nevertheless a critically important moment in the Country Music Revolution, which is currently in the middle of the country music revolution. And it is an album, the meaning of which has only grown and greater unveiled over time.

The son of the country music legend Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter had been involved in music for a while, namely in his rock band Stargunn from Los Angeles. The band showed an early promise and toured with larger acts such as Salvia and Tesla, but struggled to find a broad commercial acceptance.

So shooters decided to move into the family business, sign a contract with Universal South Records and to accept a country album. Put the 'o' back into the country Would actually go to a (semi) radio hit with the “4. July ”by Shooter (#22 in the charts) – the only real commercial hit of his career. But it was not just the title that made it clear that Waylon Jennings Jr. would not be interested in getting into Kenny Chesney's Country sounds that was the hot star of the country.

The album began with the title track – a revised representation of Neil Young “As You Ready for the Country?”, Not unlike his daddy, but turned into a country protest song with George Jones. An interesting footnote about the plate: on the studio track from “4. July ”George Jones is also loved“ He Stop ”today. Although Georges part did not deal with the radio, Jones was still attributed to the song, which gave the legend in 2005 a top 25 hit with a top 25 hit.

However, the title track was not the only moment of the land protest. The song “Solid Country Gold” also becomes Rowdy. “Now I was born in Nashville, but I went there a long time ago. Because they built music city by sacrificing souls. “ The album is not exclusively a “country” album. It is more of Mediterranean rocks with land dentions. But “Solid Country Gold” was certainly of the many country moments in the title list.

These pronounced songs do not only prepare in the Music Row springs. Another famous son of Country Music – He was Williams III – an exception to Shooter's new musical direction and accused Waylon's son of having stolen his persona except for the “O 'in Country Line”, since Hank3 already sang his song “Dick in Dixie”, who used a very similar saying. Afterwards Hank3 coveted a one -sided beef with shooters for years, although, as some of them emphasized, it was actually Carlene Carter, who officially talked about the “C*NT in Country” many years earlier.

Regardless of controversy, Put the 'o' back into the country Now the revolutionary country releases plays a crucial role in the Pantheon, which leads us to the Country Music Revolution of today. Among the other reasons for this was one of the very first albums that Dave Cobb could see as a producer before someone really knew who he was.

Before Cobb Sturgill Simpson's first two solo record would produce, Jason Isbell became the record of the King of Americana produced by Dave Cobb, and Cobb won according to a variety of Grammy Awards and became a producer du Jennings the ear that brought Dave Cobb and put him on the producer chair.

That was the thing Put the 'o' back into the country. Although it was on a large label, it was an independent production. Shooter wrote most of the material and recorded it with its Touring band, the .357s, which would become a bit legendary itself. The bassist Ted Russell Kamp is now considered a stable ward of the Los Angeles Country scene, both as a solo performer and as a producer and session player. The guitarist Leroy Powell was seen as Shooter's Ace in the hole by many and now also has his own career.

Put the 'o' back into the country Also appear by Hank Williams Jr. and Jessi Colter. In many ways, the generations of the Circle of Country Circle of Country Music squad. The album was not perfect and something messy in places. But it was wild, pronounced and as we can now see from a 20-year retrospective-shamatic before his time.

Jennings's shooter is of course his own critically recognized, Grammy price-crowned and coveted producer than he is usually changed full -time from the streetAnd to the studio in Los Angeles. Jennings is no longer just a son or the newcomer in the country scene. He is his own husband beyond the famous name of his father. But it all started with his debut album Cussy and attitude debut, Put the 'o' back into the country.