Artist Shooter Jennings Producer Shooter Jennings Genre Pop | Release date 26 February 2016 Label BCR Records | |
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Released February 26, 2016 (2016-02-26) Don't Wait Up (For George) EP
(2014) Countach (For Giorgio)
(2016) Similar Shooter Jennings albums, Other albums | ||
Countach (for Giorgio) is the seventh studio album by American outlaw country artist Shooter Jennings, released on February 26, 2016 on vinyl through Jennings' own Black Country Rock label. A 16-bit music video for the song "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)" featuring Marilyn Manson was released on August 1.
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Background and release
Countach is an album of songs composed or inspired by producer Giorgio Moroder. Jennings has described the album as "a love letter to [his] childhood", explaining that "It all connected. Something that I had just written off as the sound of the Eighties, it was all Giorgio. He's the one that made that wave of music happen. It hit me like a freight train." The album was originally scheduled for release in November 2014. However, its release was delayed due to the sudden death of Jon Hensley, Jennings' longtime manager and friend and Black Country Rock co-founder. On February 22, 2016, the album was released digitally inside the multiplayer component of the role-playing video game Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, with players encouraged to search through the game's multiplayer levels to win one of twenty-five free vinyl copies of the album. The album was released on CD, digital download, cassette, 8-track tape and cylinder formats on March 11, and features guest vocals from Steve Young, Brandi Carlile, Marilyn Manson and Shroud of the Avatar creator Richard Garriott de Cayeux
Songs
1Loading0:47
2Countach3:25
3From Here to Eternity4:28