“I refuse to say anything when people ask me,” he said. Which I absolutely do not have and am not doing.”Īlthough Jennings is not naming any specific artists who inspired the song, he’s amused that fans have filled in the blanks and jumped to conclusions. They think I’ve got a lot of money, so I’m sitting around on a pile of my dad’s money and just throwing darts at people. But if anything, I’m like, ’Oh, really? Because who else is going to say this? I’ve got to step in and say something if I believe it. The stuff that’s been said about me gets way worse than that.
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“The thing is, man, my skin is so thick at this point. “Yeah, that I’m riding my dad’s coattails or something,” he said this week during a visit to CMT’s offices in Nashville.
In reading the online comments, Jennings is keenly aware that some fans are claiming he, too, is trying to capitalize on his father’s legacy. Whether staunchly supporting or rabidly criticizing his view that musicians don’t have an inalienable right to drop the names of his father, Johnny Cash and Hank Williams in positioning themselves as musical renegades, the song has generated lots of comments on the Internet, including CMT.com. With lines such as, “Hey, pretty boy in the baseball hat/You couldn’t hit country with a baseball bat,” Jennings ultimately sings, “They should outlaw you.”
Country fans are divided in their response to his social commentary about mainstream country singers who try to align themselves with the Outlaw music movement created in large part by his late father, Waylon Jennings. Shooter Jennings wanted to stir things up with his latest song, “Outlaw You,”Īnd he succeeded.