Stephen King Goes Country
An interesting side job!
Stephen King will be prominently featured on the new Shooter Jennings concept album. Stephen recorded some voice-overs as the album's lead character, Will O' The Wisp, a radio talk-show host being phased out due to government censorship. The album follows his characters last hour on the air, where he talks about the decline of America and, of course, plays all the new songs from Shooter's band, Hierophant.
The cool thing about this is that the artists, both avid fans of one another, have still never met one another. In the press release explaining the partnership, both guys admitted that their entire collaboration was done digitally. The release reads:
"'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.'
Says King, 'I've been a huge Shooter Jennings fan from the very beginning, so I was flattered to be asked.'"
Sounds like it could be somewhat interesting, at least the concept of the album. At least it is showing some initiative to be creative.
What do U think of this collaboration?
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Don't care. I love Stephen King but stick to books and movies. That's all your fans give a shit about.
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Wasn't he hit by a truck a few years back?
you are sooo gay perez
lols
not my kind of song. let me keep it at that.
and for gods sake, do something bout this site! it takes freakin 45 minutes for comments to show up! so lame.. bring this shizz to the 2010 and make it work! /Tim Gunn mode/
haha oops wring article
i'll post my comment there too tho
and the slow site thing still applies! lols
I guess in your cookie cutter pop infested world, the words initiative and creative are rarely used. Shooter jennings has put out a couple of real good albums, it does not surprise me in the least that the next one will be good also
Not a fan of country music, but what I do know about Shooter Jennings, is that he has great taste in women: his GF/wife is the gorgeous and talented Drea de Matteo.
You know what's weird about that? Jeff Hardy's (pro wrestler) first "wrestler name", before he made a name for himself, was Willow the Wisp.
Love Stephen King. Would like to see him get a little bit of an upper lip tho, superficial being that I am.
He should grow a beard because the older he gets the more he looks like an old lesbian
"The whole world has gone country …Yeah look at em Boots" *Giggles*
FUNNY cant picture his voice and stuttering to be a good singer! BUT his writing is amazing so YOU GO BOYE ~! LOL!