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Album Review | COUNTRY

Shooter Jennings, ‘Family Man’

  March 12, 2012

After the head-spinning detour of 2010’s imperfect-but-underrated prog-metal concept album “Black Ribbons,’’ Jennings digs back into the dirt of his roots to excellent results. The singer-songwriter kicks things off with the saloon piano-powered swagger of ”The Real Me” rasping with ornery breathlessness about the meaner-than-the-dickens, jagged toothed, lyin’, smokin’, fightin’ devil that is unleashed when the song’s narrator has knocked a few back.

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