Shooter Jennings & Stephen King Make an album?

[psj77]

This is frickin' awesome! Ms Mod please give more details. This is what I know.

http://www.rhapsody.com/shooter-jennings/wake-up

http://www.shooterjennings.com/

http://www.liljas-library.com/

[Moderator]

From the press release:

Los Angeles, CA (January 6, 2010) – BLACK RIBBONS, the highly anticipated new album from singer-songwriter SHOOTER JENNINGS, features a unique collaboration between Jennings and best-selling author STEPHEN KING. The 70-minute concept album, in stores on March 2, sees King providing the voice of “Will O’ The Wisp,” a late-night talk radio host who is in the last hour of his final broadcast before the airwaves are overtaken by “government-approved and regulated transmissions.”

With nothing left to lose, the radio host lets loose with a series of rants, punctuating his diatribes with selections from the discography of (Jennings’ new band) Hierophant. Throughout the album’s 14 songs, Will O’ The Wisp flits in and out, painting an apocalyptic picture of what America could become in the not-so-distant future, while offering his loyal listeners—from whom he is about to be permanently cut off—the unvarnished truth.

Jennings and producer Dave Cobb completed the album in early 2009, but had yet to fill the crucial role of the story’s DJ. Jennings decided to reach out to King—who was a fan and had written him into his best-selling novel Lisey’s Story (2006). The author was intrigued by the invitation and came on board after he’d heard the finished tracks. King then proceeded to become Will o’ the Wisp.

To this day I've never met or spoken to Mr. King,” says Shooter. “Someone who had business contacts with him put us in touch and I presented my ideas to him. Through a string of emails we went back and forth about the character and the story of the album, and the few weeks later I had a recording of several voiceover clips—called “The Last Night of the Last Light”—on my doorstep. It was like a digital correspondence with a spectre from the other side—very dark, eerie and profoundly mesmerizing stuff. I'm extremely grateful and honored to have him on this record."

[Cowboy]

Sounds pretty cool.

[Sigmund]

I can't wait!

[boogerb53]

Awsome!!!!!

[psj77]

The first single "Wake Up!" is awesome. Can't wait for the rest.

[knghtmare]

I saw Shooter Jennings at Lollapalooza in New Orleans in 1996. Waylon Jennings was there as a guest of Metallica and he had his son cover a song. I think it was a Guns and Roses Song, but I can't remember for sure.

Pretty Cool!

[dwspell]

not sure about the music of shooter jennings but i can't wait to hear what SK has to say!

[scarywriter]

So have any of you checked out the tune? It really does rock. I am a big Shooter fan too and think its a major departure from his current *(&-kicker stuff adn back to his old hard rock days.

[Damaris]

I am not allowed nearly enough smileys for this.