Shaboozey dropped a new single, “Cowboy,” along with a cinematic music video for the track. The video, directed by Shaboozey and Logan Meis, stars Summer House‘s Ciara Miller as a woman seeking revenge in the old West.
“The outlaws took everything,” Shaboozey explained of the storyline on Instagram. “She took it personal. Tonight, ‘Cowgirl’ tells the story of Cherie Lee.”
“Cowgirl” comes off Shaboozey’s forthcoming concept album, The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales. The LP, out July 31, was several years in the making. “It’s a Western about revenge told continuously through every song, centered on the character Cherie Lee,” Shaboozey explained in a statement. “It explores so many themes, as many timeless Westerns have: revenge, redemption, and romance, through the eyes of a protagonist looking to challenge everything she once thought true about her world.”
A press release describes the project as “a cinematic outlaw revenge story with a tragic love at its center. After watching her sheriff father murdered by the Bootcut Boys, Cherie Lee abandons the badge and hunts the gang down one by one. In the middle of her vengeance, she unexpectedly falls for one of the outlaws. He believes loving her can redeem him; she hopes loving him can quiet her darkness. They’re both wrong. In the final act, Cherie chooses blood over love, killing the man who loves her most and fully becoming what she set out to destroy.”
Shaboozey will head on tour this fall in support of the album. His Outlaws Never Die Tour kicks off Sept. 8 in Phoenix and continues through the end of October.
