How serious is Shaboozey about making The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales a cowboy experience? He put Sam Elliott on the album.
Shaboozey announced the LP’s stacked features on social media on Tuesday. Along with Elliott, who has played drawling, sometimes gun-toting cowboys in movies from Tombstone to The Big Lebowski, The Outlaw Cherie Lee includes cameos by two more actors who double as singers: Jamie Foxx and Teyana Taylor.
On the music side, R&B artist Kehlani, the rapper Gunna, soul singer Leon Bridges, and the masked country vocalist Orville Peck are all featured on the album, due July 31st. Shaboozey also announced the track list, but didn’t note which guests feature on which songs.
The inclusion of actors like Elliott and Taylor, who won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Female Actor in a Motion Picture for her role in One Battle After Another, underscores the cinematic nature of Shaboozey’s album.
“It was always my dream to put all the things I love about movies and music and stories into one cohesive body of work that I felt like people in today’s current music landscape aren’t really doing,” he told Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast in May. “The Outlaw Cherie Lee came from my love for strong female protagonists. Quentin Tarantino is one of my favorite directors. He did Kill Bill with Uma Thurman, Jackie Brown with Pam Grier.”
The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales track List
“Hell Is Hot”
“Sweet Revenge”
“If I Was an Outlaw”
“Cowgirl”
“Burn It Down”
“Death of Jeremiah Walker”
“Drunk”
“Ugly & All”
“Bullets & Blades”
“Don’t Count Down”
“Lone Survivor”
“Bounty on My Head”
“Born to Die”
“Kissed By an Angel”
“The Worst of Them All”
How Saving Western Civilization Replaced Making America Great Again