I’d felt that country music needed a shake-up for a long time. It was cool for what it was, but it was just me and the band trying to make a hard-rock country record, which at the time wasn’t territory that had really been explored.
In retrospect it set a marker for the album and was supposed to come out like a fighting piece. “The title Put The O Back In Country was something that a bunch of people I knew had already been kicking around. “The song Are You Ready For The Country was one of the benchmarks of rock‘n’roll country. “I felt that country needed a shake-up” – Shooter Jennings on his reworking of Are You Ready For The Country Waylon’s son Shooter Jennings got in on the act, reworking the song as the title track of his 2005 debut solo album Put The O Back In Country (see boxout above), lending it a much harder edge. Jennings and Young would later work together on Young’s 1985 country album Old Ways. Originally written by Neil Young, and featured on his classic 1972 album Harvest, this song was picked up by outlaw country singer Waylon Jennings for his 1976 album of the same name, his more overt country version giving him a big hit. Red, White And Blue (Live) is out now via Loud & Proud Records.Ĥ) Neil Young/Waylon Jennings/Shooter Jennings – Are You Ready For The Country But we had a gold record on our wall before we knew it.” HY We were just doing it to see basically if we could break into a different genre of music. My Kind Of Country really took off for us. You never know for sure, but you have a gut reaction. I believe that if I can touch you, emotionally and spiritually, then I’m gonna have a hit song there. “A great country song has to be the truth, because people can see through it. So we’d actually ride around Nashville at four in the morning, listening to what we’d recorded that day, all hyped up. Then we’d leave the studio, and Johnny and myself were both so wired up that we couldn’t go to sleep. We recorded it at night – you’re talking two o’clock in the morning. “We wrote that song in Nashville, Tennessee. If we have to struggle to write a song, it’s not worth messing with it. I live very simply, and there’s nothing wrong with that. We love little-league baseball, hanging out with family and cooking out. We just started writing down the things we do.
“Everything you hear in that song is all true. But we were the first ones to really jump from the rock genre to country. And we grew up with the old country: guys like George Jones, Merle Haggard and Hank Williams. My father was a truck driver, my mother was the manager of a doughnut shop. “A lot of people couldn’t believe we did a country record but, to be truthful, it wasn’t that big of a leap for Johnny and myself. “A great country song has to be the truth” – Donnie Van Zant tells us about the making of My Kind Of Country But with lines such as ‘ We got Johnny Cash, Back In Black, southern rock’n’roll’ there’s no disguising the rowdy good-time nature of this belter of a track. The project allowed the pair to play a more country style of music than their respective day jobs, with a message that didn’t always translate easily outside of the God-fearing, gun-toting southern states. 38 Special-fronting brother Donnie (both younger siblings of late Skynyrd mainman Ronnie). ( Ben Wilbanks via Flickr.The title track from the fifth collaboration between Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Johnny Van Zant and. Keep up with the latest news by following us on Facebook ( Live365 Official and Live365 Broadcasting) and Twitter ( and Image: Marty Stuart performing in April 2008. "The Whiskey Ain't Workin' (with Marty Stuart)" (Travis Tritt's It's All About to Change, 1991)įor all your music needs, head over to for the best variety of radio stations around. "This One's Gonna Hurt You (with Travis Tritt)" ( This One's Gonna Hurt You, 1992)ġ. "Hillbilly Rock" ( Hillbilly Rock, 1989)ģ. "Now That's Country" ( This One's Gonna Hurt You, 1992)Ħ. "Western Girls" ( Hillbilly Rock, 1989)Ĩ. Given the news that Marty Stuart is one of the newest inductees of the Country Music Hall of Fame, we wanted to recap his 10 highest-charting songs on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
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