Chords for Shooter Jennings interview on The Texas Music Scene about FAMILY MAN

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Hey, [F] this is Shooter Jennings, [G] and this is the Texas music scene with my little buddy,
Ray Benson.
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Welcome back, y'all.
You know, Shooter Jennings has recently made a triumphant return to his unique brand of
country music with the album Family Man.
It's a good one, folks.
We hopped on his tour bus to get the inside story.
Let's check it out. _ _
I wake up with my children _ right [A] around the clock.
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[B] I hope the people [Bm] who listen to my music _ _ will [D] _ latch on and continue to follow me in
[G#] my journey, because with music, for me, it's always a journey, and you never know where I'll go.
Right now, I'm feeling country for a couple [G] records, but I might go into these other worlds
and stuff, but it's all about my personality, and it's [B] always real, and it always comes
from a really honest place, and I always try to write everything from a place of maybe
passing on something to somebody [G] else.
So _ if you want to know what's up with me, buy my records, because that's [E] what's going
on with me.
_ The real me as a song is like [A] a song that's really about, _ I mean, [D] it's just really about
[G] facing the fact that I [E] can't be perfect all the time, [G] and by that, I mean really not perfect.
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_ [D] With Family Man, I really wanted the next step to be something that was really pure
and songwriter [B]-based, and I was just feeling that I needed to do something [F#] different to
kind of [G] revitalize my creativity [Bm] a little bit, and it was the first record that I produced myself.
I mean, [G] previous to this, I'd always been working with a very dear friend of [A] mine, Dave
Cobb, who [Em] still is a very dear friend, [A] but this time, I wanted to kind of step out and
do [D] something that was going to be _ pretty [B] much 100% a creative [D] gesture on my own.
I just really [F#m] wanted _ [G#m]
to write the [F#] songs, to do the record, do [B] all those things just kind
of on my own, [Bm] and so [G] through [B] the grace of God and a label and stuff, we went into the
magic shop [A] in Soho and recorded Family Man.
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First single that we have off the record [G] is called The D and the Dollar, and that was
like a song that, you know, I was writing a little [Bm] love song to my [G] girl, I mean, especially
because [Bm] through all of everything that I've [B] been through, she's definitely been there
for me, [Bm] and _ [G] _ _ _ I've been a better girl than I have been a boy in the relationship, I think,
but [Bm] I'm very lucky [B] to have her in my life and [A] everything, but then I wrote this song
that kind of was just a little [B] love song with little old Southern sayings in it, [G] like I
didn't expect it to be the single.
She [D] owns the D, _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ she [D] owns the dollar.
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[D] _ _ [B] All these songs were kind of an exercise [G] in writing for me, where I just [A] was determined
to do it in its [Bm] most basic form and not [Em] really focus on riffs or [A] layered instruments and
really [Bm] make it where the song from top to bottom on an acoustic would sound good and
then [G] kind of move into the next thing.
[Gm] Gonna walk a mile right [D] off of this island, [A] _ _ go away for I go insane.
_ _ And luckily I ended up playing with [B] these guys in the Triple Crown, the [A] band, and it's
like they [Bm] were really able [G] to take what I was doing and _ _ _ elevate the song to [Bm] another
level, you know?
_ [B] So I'm very fortunate to have such good players.
It's a high, lonesome summertime, a life of tribulation, but I'll be fine.
There's one thing, Jesus, if you don't mind, turn my water to wine.
Turn my water [A] to wine.
The twisted religious [E] songs, you know, we [B] did Manifesto No.
1 on the first record, and
I don't know what made me name it that, but [A] I did.
And then when we came around to the second record, me and Leroy wrote, the old guitar
picker I used to play [E] with wrote Manifesto [A] 2 together.
We did a Manifesto 3 that we never released technically, [C] but if you go to my website at
ShooterGenetics [E].com, you can actually download this free record called Miss the Boat, [Em] and
it's on there, a [B] live version of it.
But when we came around to this record, I wrote the song that is [D] Manifesto 4, and I
just felt like it needed to [E] continue the [G] legacy of the [E] Manifesto songs, you know?
It's like, they're always some kind of, _ [A] _ _ [D] you know, I guess they're as conflicted as I get,
[G] because it's like, for me, I mean, my mom's really religious, and [Bm] I was raised religious
and all this [G] stuff, but I always [A] find myself in these really messed up situations, and
I'm always like, _
_ [E] okay, [A] if you let me get through this, I promise, you know, [D] I'll do this [A] or
that, and it kind of comes from that same place, those songs, I think.
_ The _ _ _ time of night _ [E] and [A] time is one thing Jesus, and I'll be fine.
[G] I'm _ [A] _ _ _ _ really proud of it.
I'm really [G] proud of the country sound [C] we got cutting in New York, [F#] you know?
But I honestly [C#m] didn't know going into it how country, how traditional [E] country it would turn out.
[A#m] We spent so much time blending rock and [F#] country into stuff, and I feel like that's what [C#m] all
the new guys do now.
Like, all the Nashville dudes are doing this [G#] _ kind of hard [C#m] rock, they all sound like rock
bands with like, [F#] Pebble Steel.
That wasn't [C#m] going on like that back when [G#] we busted out, you know?
So, whether we had a hand [C#m] in that or whatever it [G#] is, I felt like the most, pretty much,
[G#m] like rebellious thing would be to do [C#m] like a really simple [F#] songwriting album, you know,
and it turned out to [C#] be really country, which made me happy.
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_ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] All _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _ [A#m] _ _
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_ _ [A#m] _ _ right, coming up next is a Texas [F#m] music road story from [E] the departed.
Cody Canada and Steve Littleton in [B] Fort Worth.
Stay with us. _
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