If Shooter Jennings were content to coast on nepotism (he’s the son of outlaw country legends Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter), he wouldn’t have recorded Countach (For Giorgio), a blend of honky-tonk and Italo-disco that boasted a Bowie cover sung by Marilyn Manson, nor would he have collaborated with Duff McKagan on the G’N’R bassist’s solo album Tenderness. Still, Jennings’ DNA demands that he continue down the path carved out by his parents, as heard on his 2018 album Shooter, a psychedelicized ode to hard living, hard drinking, and hard hearts. by Robert Ham