Richard Garriott Has a Guest Appearance on Shooter Jennings’ Giorgio Moroder Tribute Album
Country-rock icon Shooter Jennings has a new album coming out. Entitled Countach (For Giorgio), it’s a tribute album to the work of disco pioneer Giorgio Moroder. And Richard Garriott has a guest appearance on one of the tracks:
According to Rolling Stone, the upcoming Countach (for Giorgio) “mixes fiddles, synthesizers and hard rock guitars into the same genre-bending package, tipping its hat to the famed Italian producer who helped shape the sounds of the ’70s and ’80s.” (The album is meant to serve as a companion piece to Jennings’ 2014 EP, Don’t Wait Up (For George), a tribute to the late George Jones.) And if the son of Waylon Jennings playing the theme from Midnight Express isn’t weird enough, the record includes guest appearances from Brandi Carlile, video game developer Richard Garriott de Cayeux, and Marilyn Manson performing a cover of David Bowie’s “Cat People (Putting Out Fire),” which Moroder co-wrote and produced for Paul Schrader’s 1982 film.
Richard Garriott’s contribution to the album will evidently be heard in the song Chase…which I assume is a cover of this song. Assuming I’m right, it’s worth noting that the original Chase was an instrumental, so we may not actually be treated to the vocal stylings of Lord British.