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?
[Image via WENN.]
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