Shooter Jennings - It Ain't Easy

What this video is

Released in 2006 on Electric Rodeo, Shooter Jennings' second album for Universal South Records, 'It Ain't Easy' sits at the heart of a mid-2000s roots-music counter-movement pushing back against the polished, pop-inflected mainstream Nashville sound. As the son of Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, Shooter carried explicit lineage to the 1970s outlaw country movement, and this song — with its autobiographical road…

Why it matters

A pivotal document of second-generation outlaw country, 'It Ain't Easy' bridges the Southern rock energy of Electric Rodeo with the introspective confessional mode of classic outlaw balladry. AllMusic identified it among the album's 'more outlaw country-styled cuts,' noting its recall of 'the…