Stephen King to Appear on Shooter Jennings' Next Album
Stephen King is going to provide the voice of a radio host on Shooter Jennings' next album, Black Ribbons.
The concept album, Black Ribbons, will see King provide the voice of late-night talk show host Will O'The Wisp as he gives his final broadcast before being cut off by government censorship. While his character rants about the apocalyptic future that lies ahead for America, he plays songs from Jennings's band Hierophant.
Jennings told music sites that although he had never met King, he knew the author was a fan -- King mentions the musician in his novel Lisey's Story -- and felt he would be the perfect narrator for the album. "To this day I've never met or spoken to Mr King," he said. "Someone who had business contacts with him put us in touch and I presented my ideas to him. Through a string of emails we went back and forth about the character and the story of the album, and then a few weeks later I had a recording of several voiceover clips -- called "The Last Night of the Last Light" -- on my doorstep."
Jennings said the experience "was like a digital correspondence with a spectre from the other side -- very dark, eerie and profoundly mesmerising stuff. I'm extremely grateful and honoured to have him on this record." King said he had "been a huge Shooter Jennings fan from the very beginning, so I was flattered to be asked".
Stephen King is doing a lot of interesting projects this year. He published a new poem in Playboy, is plotting a sequel to The Shining and is writing a comic book about the first American vampire.
