How Shooter Jennings Found Waylon’s Lost Tapes

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🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Don’t you think this outlaw bit’s done got out of hand? On this week’s no-holds-barred episode of Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast, we talk to the keeper of the outlaw country flame, Shooter Jennings, about the new album he produced on his dad, the legendary late rebel Waylon Jennings. We learn how Shooter found the tapes, why they’re so important to country music, and how the Grammy-winning producer put them all together. Shooter also tells us why he has such a “hard time” with Nashville and if there will ever be a Waylon Jennings honky-tonk on Broadway. We also talk about Sabrina Carpenter’s big country debut and list off our Hear Now songs for the week. Let’s go! Country is Here…Nashville is Now. Check out our Hear Now playlist on Spotify, updated weekly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	check one too
0:03.8	all right
0:04.9	hey how about those sounds from
0:08.0	adam ditch kurtz our theme music on rolling stones Nashville now
0:12.0	he's a member of the band bucking stuff
0:14.5	repping that swag this week i'm joseph hudak
0:17.5	senior music editor rolling stone and the host of this podcast n Nashville Now. Welcome to Nashville Now and the Nashville Now Cabin.
0:25.6	We have so much to talk about this week and a very special guest. He is the, gosh, he is the sion of Outlaw Country, the heir to Outlaw Country.
0:38.5	It is Shooter Jennings.
0:39.6	We will give him a proper introduction soon and welcome him to the table here with us.
0:44.9	Let's go through some news.
0:46.1	This week, Rolling Stone released a massive undertaking of which I was a part of.
0:59.5	The 250 greatest songs of the century so far. It was a lot of work, a lot of writing, a lot of curation by our list master general, the
1:07.9	amazing John Dolan and the entire staff of Rolling Stone. It was all genre.
1:13.7	So while other artists may be representing the top spot, you got to check out who that is.
1:20.6	It's a terrific song. There was a lot of country music in all facets of country. We had Americana,
1:27.4	we had mainstream country, we even had some
1:30.0	bro country. Florida Georgia lines crews made the list of the 250 best songs of the century so far.
1:39.0	Otherwise, who else do we have, man? We had Tyler Childers, feathered Indians, Old Crow Medicine shows. Wagon Wheel also made the list
1:47.4	with our dear friend Catch Seacore, who is, of course, the voice of here now on Rolling Stones National Now.
1:53.6	Eric Churches, Springsteen made the list. Carry Underwoods, Carrie Underwoods before he cheats.
2:00.4	Jason Isbell cover me up.
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