<p><strong>Shooter Jennings</strong> made history when his <em><strong>Countach (For Giorgio)</strong> </em>album &#8211; 10 songs written or inspired by electronic music pioneer <strong>Giorgio Moroder</strong> &#8211; debuted inside the virtual world of multi-player online game Shroud of the Avatar™ earlier this year. Last week, <em>Rolling Stone</em> named the groundbreaking collection one of their &#8220;15 Great Albums You Didn&#8217;t Hear in 2016 &#8211; <em>Rolling Stone</em> critics choose LPs that flew under the radar.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;With this mesmerizing and unexpected tribute to dance-music pioneer Giorgio Moroder, Shooter Jennings finally finds a way to combine all of his diverse influences. There&#8217;s outlaw country (a snippet of dad Waylon&#8217;s &#8220;Outlaw Bit&#8221; opens the album), moody prog rock (David Bowie&#8217;s &#8220;Cat People&#8221; with Marilyn Manson) and soaring Eighties pop (&#8220;The Neverending Story,&#8221; as sung by Brandi Carlile). It&#8217;s all tied together by the pop-culture geek mind of Jennings, who hides sonic Easter eggs throughout: Sam Kinison&#8217;s scream, amusement-park commercials and the speeches of video-game visionary Richard Garriott de Cayeux. But the heart of the project remains the songs of Moroder, which Jennings interprets with reverence. And a whole lotta synthesizer,&#8221; wrote <em>Rolling Stone</em> Senior Editor Joseph Hudak.</p>
<p>In addition to Manson, Carlile and Garriott, <em>Countach (for Giorgio)</em> included an appearance by the late Steve Young, singer, songwriter and outlaw movement figure Shooter befriended several years ago.</p>
<p>On Sunday, Shooter wrapped up a 10-city tour &#8211; and 2017 &#8211; with singer/songwriter Jason Boland. The two swapped songs in a simple acoustic setting that packed venues in the east and mid-south. The rest of 2016 was filled with touring with his own band and with Waymore&#8217;s Outlaws, three of Waylon Jennings&#8217; original band members and lead singer Tommy Townsend.</p>
<p><em>Black Ribbons: The Ultimate Edition</em></p>
<p>His <em>Countach</em> album was followed by the release of <em>A Night In Room 8</em> by Billy Don Burns, which was produced by Shooter and released on his Black Country Rock label. Last month, he released <em>Black Ribbons: The Ultimate Edition</em>, a limited edition package of his 2010 <em>Black Ribbons</em> album that included vinyl, cd and unreleased tracks.</p>
<p>The highly anticipated <em>BCR Mixtape &#8217;16</em>, the annual collection of cuts personally selected by Shooter from Black Country Rock releases, will be available at BCRMedia.com on January 1, 2017.</p>
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