With just five songs, Shooter Jennings has paid fitting tribute to his friend and legend George Jones and has given us five songs of country rock brilliance.

Mixing a traditional country music sound with a unique blend of rock guitar and 80's electronica, 'Don't Wait Up (for George)' isn't as much a tribute album as it is a musical tip of the hat to a man Shooter has known all of his life and a guy that made him feel, "just as talented and important as he was.".

The record starts out with the gritty original "Don't Wait Up (I'm Playin' Possum)," a song originally intended to be recorded by Jones. Jennings listened to the track after the legend's untimely death and got the idea to record an EP. The song has a haunting grittiness thanks to the strange but fitting mix of backwoods violin and keyboards.

The second track is another original, "Living In a Minor Key." Mostly acoustic, Shooter showcases his raw country rasp on a set of lyrics that could easily have been another hit for the late Possum.

Next comes "She Still Thinks I Care," a song taken to number one by not only Jones but Anne Murray and also recorded by Elvis Presley, Cher, James Taylor, and others. Jennings version tilts on the axis between being a slow dance honky-tonk classic and 80's soundtrack ballad.

The 100%, George Jones influenced cover of the Harlan Sanders penned classic "If Drink' Don't Kill Me" comes next and could easily dredge up the saddest of memories and bring tears to even the strongest of men, given the right frame of mind. Shooter's voice is paired nicely in duet style with the angelic whines of Katy Cole.

As they say, the best was saved for last. The song that would become George Jones' sixth number one on the country charts, "The Door." A sawdust floor ballad for Jones but a hard rock experience when in the hands of the wildly experimental Jennings. The theme of haunting vocal delivery continues here as the singer pounds his way easily through one of the classic heartbreakers of country music.

Even Jones himself would have patted Jennings on the back and said, "thank you for the album."

'Don't Wait Up (for George)' is available at various places but I personally think you should buy it straight from Shooter and his label Black Country Rock, cause that's what I did and that's exactly WWWD (What Waylon Would Do).

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