Right before his performance with Tyler Childers at the legendary Hollywood Bowl, Robert Earl Keen sat down with Shooter Jennings for an epic on-location episode of Americana Podcast: The 51st State. Recorded at Jennings’s Los Angeles studio, Keen and the GRAMMY-winning producer talked about the historical differences between LA and Nashville “country music” and classic A-list session musicians. They delved into Jennings’s process in the studio with artists he’s producing, and the story behind putting out the series of upcoming releases from his dad, Waylon Jennings’s, archives. 

This episode of Americana Podcast: The 51st State is the latest from the current 2025 season, where the ever-evolving project now includes a video component and some bonus performance footage, to boot. Episode #142 with Shooter Jennings is now available to hear or watch at this link, and new episodes will air throughout 2025 on the last Tuesday of each month. For more information, please visit americanapodcast.com.

All About Americana Podcast: The 51st State: Clara Rose plans and produces every episode. Host Robert Earl Keen, equipped with his 21 albums and 30 years in the music industry, knows a thing or two about Americana. REK's music was genre-bending making him a veritable singer/songwriter without definition until 1997 when radio trade magazine, The Gavin Report recognized "Americana" music. With REK on the cover, The Gavin Report, published the first known comprehensive list of Americana artists, placing him in the top 10. With a long-running, vested interest in the Americana music scene, Keen intends for this project to be a method in which musicians, music lovers, and artists come together over storytelling. Americana Podcast is not sponsored. We keep the vision of this project pure and without distraction or bias.