{"id":1777119,"date":"2026-06-08T17:04:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/?p=1777119"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:04:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:04:30","slug":"shaboozey-talks-new-album-the-outlaw-cherie-lee-movie-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/shaboozey-talks-new-album-the-outlaw-cherie-lee-movie-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaboozey Talks New Album \u2018The Outlaw Cherie Lee,\u2019 Movie Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tThe country music trailblazer started crying after I asked him to reflect on what his history-making Grammy win<\/a> meant to him, not as an artist, but as a son and grandson. Back in February, Shaboozey became the first Black man to take home the Grammy for Best Country Duo\/Group Performance, for \u201cAmen,\u201d a collaboration with the rapper-turned-country-singer Jelly Roll. Backstage in the press room at the Grammys that night, he broke down.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI cried so much then because I really felt it all. It was just like\u2026I might cry right now, y\u2019all. Hold on,\u201d he says now, his voice cracking. \u201cThinking about all the struggle and the pain that our people, my people, Black people, Nigerian people\u2026 To feel like I was able to be a part in some little way of Black history was just\u2026 It was a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShaboozey\u2019s milestone Grammy victory happened to fall on the first day of Black History Month. Just thinking of the moment has once again opened the floodgates.<\/p>\n

\n\tI offer him my handkerchief, which, after years of heeding my father\u2019s advice to always carry one, has finally come in handy.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThanks,\u201d Shaboozey asks off-mic, dabbing his eyes. \u201cCan I keep this?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tA FEW HOURS BEFORE our live interview, the man born Collins Obinna Chibueze to Nigerian immigrants is sitting quietly in his hotel room, 10 stories above the casino floor. Below him, drunken partiers are stumbling back from a day in the unrelenting sun at the MGM Grand\u2019s pool, many of them carrying inflatable tubes, and nearly all in various stages of undress. One guy in a hospital gown is being escorted somewhere by security.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut Shaboozey, dressed in head-to-toe denim with brown suede boots, his dreadlocks hanging loose across his back, is thinking about his mother. Specifically, the 31-year-old is worried about how she\u2019ll react to a new tattoo he recently had inked on his left hand \u2014 a skull in a cowboy hat, with the words \u201cOutlaws Never Die.\u201d \u201cShe hasn\u2019t seen it yet,\u201d he admits, extending his hand for me to take a look.<\/p>\n

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\n\tShaboozey became a name known to everyone from moms to teens on the strength of his 2024 hit \u201cA Bar Song (Tipsy),\u201d a massive crossover smash that, to date, has more than 1.7 billion streams on Spotify and has been certified diamond. Just a few weeks before its release, he received an endorsement from no less than Beyonc\u00e9<\/a>, who featured the then-unknown singer-rapper on her country foray, Cowboy Carter<\/em><\/a>. He scored a Grammy nomination for his work on the LP, and four for \u201cA Bar Song (Tipsy),\u201d including Song of the Year and Best New Artist. Now he\u2019s poised to release a new album, The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales<\/em>, a concept record set in the Old West, due out July 31 on American Dogwood, Shaboozey\u2019s imprint with the label Empire. It\u2019s a bold, thrilling listen that underscores just how much unbridled creativity \u201cBoozey,\u201d as friends call him, brings to country music.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cMy creative director yesterday was like, \u2018You\u2019re running a real risk [by] doing this concept album. You\u2019re demanding long-term attention from people in a short-span economy. You\u2019re asking them to come on a real journey with you that\u2019s going to take maybe years for them to understand,\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cIt was a really eye-opening thing for them to put those things in perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tShaboozey flew to Vegas this afternoon from Los Angeles for both the Academy of Country Music Awards and his first-ever podcast interview \u2014 onstage with Rolling Stone\u2019s Nashville Now<\/em>. After waking up and having waffles for breakfast, he called his team to make a last-minute change to his red-carpet wardrobe for the ACM Awards. The fashion-forward artist wanted to ditch the white racing jacket he had initially selected in favor of something that nodded to The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales<\/em>. He ended up in a full-length black-leather duster and cowboy hat, as if he just walked through a set of swinging doors.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cClothes have a story. They\u2019re time capsules,\u201d he says. \u201cJust putting on clothes is like art to me.\u201d Today he\u2019s also sporting four rings above his new tattoo, vintage biker-club jewelry that he bought from his friend, an Americana dealer. The desk holds an unopened bottle of Jack Daniel\u2019s, the whiskey brand that Shaboozey turned into a chorus in \u201cA Bar Song (Tipsy),\u201d and a few cans of Liquid Death water. His olive-green newsboy cap, with a silver thunderbird pin on its peak, is tossed on the bed.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIf an earlier generation of outlaws like Willie Nelson<\/a> and Waylon Jennings<\/a> made their names by putting some distance between themselves and Nashville, Shaboozey has found his own way of dodging Music City and all that it represents. In his case, he\u2019s chosen L.A. as his base; while still an entertainment industry hub, it\u2019s worlds away from Music Row and its cookie-cutter star-making system, and that\u2019s important for what he has in mind. There\u2019s more creative opportunity in L.A. for his cinematic brand of country and hip-hop, which he expertly blended on his breakout full-length, 2024\u2019s Where I\u2019ve Been, Isn\u2019t Where I\u2019m Going<\/em><\/a>, and pushes to the limit on his new album.<\/p>\n

\n\tShaboozey has called L.A. home since moving west in 2016 from his hometown of Woodbridge, Virginia, but it\u2019s impossible to separate his blend of musical styles from the geography that raised him. Woodbridge is close enough to Washington, D.C., to absorb some of its metropolitan culture, and a few hours east of the Appalachian mountain range, where country and bluegrass sounds abound. Pharrell and Missy Elliott came out of Virginia; so did Patsy Cline and Old Crow Medicine Show. Shaboozey describes the region as a melting pot and says it gave him a blank canvas to define himself, even if it was a bit sheltered.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe beauty of a place like Northern Virginia, where I was from, is you weren\u2019t really required or expected to be anything. You go to school, you play sports, you skate, and you do whatever it is,\u201d he says. \u201cI was in my own world, and we didn\u2019t know about the outside world. I didn\u2019t know there was a Nashville, where everyone\u2019s wearing cowboy hats and singing country music, and playing the dive bars. I didn\u2019t know that in California there was a scene.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEventually, he dug into local music history and learned that Cline was born, and is buried, in nearby Winchester, Virginia, and that Emmylou Harris graduated from Gar-Field Senior High School in Woodbridge, just like him, and regularly made trips to the nation\u2019s capital to perform. \u201cShe met Gram Parsons in D.C.,\u201d Shaboozey says of Harris\u2019s cosmic-cowboy singing partner. \u201cTo know that country music had roots in D.C. and Maryland, it was freeing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThere was no big-bang moment of country music discovery for Shaboozey. He was introduced to artists like Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers by his father, who devoured country songs after immigrating to the U.S. from Nigeria in his early thirties. \u201cI would hear him say \u2018Kenny Rogers\u2019 in a very thick, West African accent. He just really was in love with it all,\u201d Shaboozey says. \u201cBut for me, there was no real pushes from anybody, it wasn\u2019t a big revelation. I just heard the music and it resonated with me, and my story, and my voice. Wanting to find my own identity led me to start singing over acoustic guitars, and then when I\u2019d listen back, people were like, \u2018It\u2019s kind of country.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tBorn in 1995, he also came of age listening to 2000s hip-hop and R&B. In a bit of foreshadowing, he fell in love with Destiny\u2019s Child and Beyonc\u00e9, and couldn\u2019t get enough of \u201cIrreplaceable.\u201d \u201cI used to sing that song every time it came on the radio,\u201d he says. \u201cI was screaming it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShaboozey found he had a natural gift for marrying the beats and lyrical flow of hip-hop with country signifiers, and he turned heads with early songs like \u201cJeff Gordon,\u201d about the NASCAR driver, \u201cCabela\u2019s,\u201d about the hunting-and-fishing outfitter, and, \u201cBeverly Hills,\u201d whose video teased an early obsession with Old West cowboy imagery. But it was \u201cA Bar Song (Tipsy)\u201d that exploded. Built around an interpolation of J-Kwon<\/a>\u2019s 2004 house-party hit \u201cTipsy\u201d and an acoustic strum-clap rhythm, the song became a cultural moment. It hit the country charts first, before jumping over to the Hot 100, where it spent 19 non-consecutive weeks at Number One, tying a record set by Lil Nas X\u2019s \u201cOld Town Road,\u201d until Mariah Carey\u2019s \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You\u201d came back and usurped them both.<\/p>\n

\n\tShaboozey recalls vividly how quickly \u201cA Bar Song\u201d caught fire upon its release on April 12, 2024.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWithin the first 10 minutes of it coming out, it was having 100,000 streams on Spotify. My team, my managers, were making bets: \u2018Oh, it\u2019s gonna get a million in a week!\u2019 and I\u2019m watching it, and I\u2019m like, \u2018This is about to get a million in 24 hours<\/em>,\u2019\u201d he recalls. \u201cIt kept climbing, and I just rode the wave.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShaboozey kept the momentum going with the ebullient \u201cGood News,\u201d another country Number One, and with \u201cAmen,\u201d the chart-topper that would later net him that historic Grammy. (The Pointer Sisters were the first Black artists to win Best Country Duo\/Group Performance, in 1975, when the award had a slightly different name; Beyonc\u00e9 won in 2025 with Miley Cyrus; but a Black male performer had never taken it home until Shaboozey.) He sprinkled in features with fellow country-rapper BigXthaPlug<\/a> and the country-grunge firebrand Stephen Wilson Jr.<\/a> among his own singles, and continued to gain notoriety from the most high-profile collab of his career: two songs on Cowboy Carter<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\n\tShaboozey and I met for coffee in 2024, just before Beyonc\u00e9 revealed her album\u2019s track list. At the time, he was keeping it a secret that he had worked with her at all; he still didn\u2019t know if his contributions, on the swaggering \u201cSpaghettii\u201d and the frenetic \u201cSweet Honey Buckin\u2019,\u201d had made the final cut.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI recorded two of those verses, and when it came out, she didn\u2019t change a single thing, not an ad lib, nothing,\u201d Shaboozey says. \u201cShe allowed me to just be me on that project. It really was motivating: \u2018Yo, Beyonc\u00e9 cosigned me!\u2019 She gave me this push and was like, \u2018Run!\u2019 And I was running as fast as I could.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMichael Trotter Jr., of the Grammy-nominated country duo the War & Treaty<\/a>, says Shaboozey represents two important things for country music: retribution and forgiveness.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe brings retribution, to say, \u2018I told you we belong here, and I told you we could do it in a big way,\u2019\u201d Trotter says. \u201cIt was really cool to see this young Black figure come and take over that way. But Shaboozey also represents forgiveness. Some people will say, \u2018That\u2019s not country music,\u2019 but Shaboozey comes with no judgment. He comes with open heart, open mind, and open arms, and he\u2019s like, \u2018I just want to tell my three chords and the truth.\u2019 He is the American forgiveness story. He is the son of our ancestors that are coming back and saying, \u2018It all belongs to us all, man.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFlush with creative capital from the success of \u201cA Bar Song\u201d and the endorsement of Beyonc\u00e9 \u2014 and after playing a lot of Red Dead Redemption<\/em>, a Western video game \u2014 Shaboozey\u00a0 decided to raise the stakes and record an Old West concept album about a woman out to settle the score with the gang that killed her lawman father. The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales<\/em> plays like a Sergio Leone spaghetti western, Shaboozey\u2019s way. There are interludes and narration provided by some big-name actors, Wild West sound effects mimicking galloping horses and stagecoaches, and a posse of guest vocalists. (The LP ends with a cover of a traditional cowboy ballad sung by a country music Lone Ranger.)<\/p>\n

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\n\tShaboozey, who cites Pink Floyd\u2019s surreal The Wall<\/em> as one of his favorite albums and movies, had been ruminating on the idea for more than a decade. He took a stab at a country concept in 2016 with an album he refers to as Wrangler<\/em>. Ultimately, he scrapped that project and went on to release the similarly titled but more rap-based Lady Wrangler<\/em> in 2018.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt 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\u2019s current music landscape aren\u2019t really doing,\u201d he says. \u201cThe Outlaw Cherie Lee<\/em> came from my love for strong female protagonists. Quentin Tarantino<\/a> is one of my favorite directors. He did Kill Bill<\/em> with Uma Thurman, Jackie Brown<\/em> with Pam Grier.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShaboozey sees himself as poking at the status quo of male-centered cinema. There\u2019s no discernible \u201cgood guy\u201d and \u201cbad guy\u201d in The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales<\/em>, and, like in those Tarantino films, the protagonist is a woman.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a revisionist Western challenging the norms of what you see in Westerns,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s about this woman wanting to get revenge against a group of people who, honestly, are trying to do what they feel is right. A group of people who have been discarded and are just looking to survive, looking to fight back.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tShaboozey admits there\u2019s a little bit of his own life story in the album.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was thinking about my past relationships with people I loved, and getting backstabbed, and still loving the person that backstabbed you,\u201d he says. \u201cIt all went into this project.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut, like Cherie Lee, does he seek revenge?<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI already got it,\u201d he says, choosing not to elaborate.<\/p>\n

\n\tTHE TRUTH ABOUT SHABOOZEY,\u00a0 however, is that he\u2019s far too kind to enact vengeance. He asks permission to swear in your company, earnestly seeks your take on the week\u2019s music trends (\u201cWhy do you think so many artists are releasing albums this summer?\u201d he asks), and, in conversation, takes pains to credit artists who inspire him, like the Music Row songwriter and genre-bending solo artist Ernest (\u201cHe\u2019s a cold<\/em> rapper,\u201d he raves) and Stephen Wilson Jr.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpying Wilson in the crowd at Losers, he shouts him out and casts a beaming smile. The pair shared the stage at last year\u2019s CMA Awards, performing their collab \u201cTook a Walk.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI do feel supported, and blessed to be who I am, to be an African American in this space. I wouldn\u2019t want it any other way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cHe comes from a small town in Virginia and wears that proudly, but he went a long way away from home to find out who he was,\u201d Wilson says. \u201cHe has a multilayered identity to him, and it\u2019s a very welcome addition to country music. The Appalachian Mountains roots seem to be apparent in his music, but he has a totally different spin on it. He\u2019s also had a lot of influence from hip-hop and pop music, and spent a lot of time on the West Coast. But in a beautiful way, it seems like he landed where he left. You can taste the cast iron in the country \u2014 it\u2019s got all this flavor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe six-foot-two-inch Shaboozey took his nickname from the way his football coach mispronounced \u201cChibueze,\u201d and his moniker is a source of pride. \u201cI\u2019ve been Boozey since I\u2019ve left\/I ain\u2019t changin\u2019 for a check,\u201d he proudly rapped in \u201cA Bar Song.\u201d Still, he\u2019s aware it stands out in Nashville\u2019s sea of Zachs, Lukes, and Chases. \u201cI didn\u2019t do myself any favors,\u201d he quips. \u201cGot a name like Shaboozey, coming in making country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut when his name became the butt of a series of tone-deaf jokes at the 2024 CMA Awards, including one about \u201ckicking Shaboozey,\u201d he shot back on social media. \u201cAin\u2019t nobody kicking me!\u201d he posted, with a photo of him smiling and shrugging his shoulders.<\/p>\n

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\n\tHe says he noted the immediate support of fans after that public moment of microaggression, broadcast live on network TV.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cContrary to what the world and the internet wants you to think, there\u2019s a lot of people out there that support and are going to go out there and defend,\u201d he tells me. \u201cAt the CMAs a couple years ago, the amount of people that got up, online, and were like, \u2018No, that\u2019s wrong. We\u2019re not going for that\u2026\u2019 I do feel supported, and blessed to be who I am, to be an African-American in this space. I wouldn\u2019t want it any other way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut he encountered unexpected blowback for the heartfelt, personal acceptance speech he gave a little more than a year later at the Grammys, in which he praised immigrants\u2019 contributions to this country at the height of the ICE raids<\/a> in Minnesota. \u201cImmigrants built this country, literally,\u201d he said. Some Black Americans \u2014 including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s daughter Bernice King \u2014 criticized his remarks for erasing the legacy of slavery and forced migration, prompting Shaboozey to issue a thoughtful clarification<\/a> the next day. It was graceful and respectful, without being an apology.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTo be clear, I know and believe that we \u2014 Black people, have also built this country,\u201d he wrote. \u201cMy words were never intended to dismiss that truth. I am both a Black man and the son of Nigerian immigrants and in the overwhelming moment of winning my first Grammy my focus was on honoring the sacrifices my parents made by coming to this country to give me and my siblings opportunities they never had.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tShaboozey says he wrote multiple versions of his speech before the ceremony, including one that mentioned slavery, but in the moment, nerves took over and his message got \u201clost in translation.\u201d Once again, he found himself worrying about what his mom was going to think.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think everyone kind of knows what I meant, you know?\u201d he says. \u201cBut I understand I let a lot of people down, especially on the first day of Black History Month, and being the first Black man to win that award. There\u2019s ways I could have approached it a lot better.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShaboozey adds that he simply didn\u2019t think he was going to win. He\u2019d gone into the previous year\u2019s Grammys as a five-time nominee, with the hottest song in the country behind him, and still came up short.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cI lost every single category,\u201d he recalls. \u201cI got my parents next to me, my sister, and I\u2019m looking to the left, seeing the emotion on them, to a point where this year I didn\u2019t even [want to] invite them. I was like, \u2018Mom, don\u2019t get glammed up and come here all the way from Virginia just to watch your son lose an award.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShaboozey says he\u2019s talked often with fellow Black country artists like Kane Brown<\/a> and the War and Treaty, and with the actress-singer Teyana Taylor<\/a> (who won a Golden Globe this year), about how hard it can be to get some recognition.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAs an African-American, there\u2019s a level of being OK with just being nominated. Having a seat at the table is sometimes enough for us,\u201d he says. \u201cWe feel like we won\u2019t win, we can\u2019t win.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt is, perhaps, not so different from the way Shaboozey depicts the gang of outlaws on his new album, that \u201cgroup of people who have been discarded and are just looking to survive.\u201d This summer, Shaboozey will hit the road on a tour that aims to help other left-of-center country artists meet their moment. He\u2019s calling it the Outlaws Never Die Tour. BigXthaPlug is on the bill, as are Black country songwriters like Kashus Culpepper and Angel White. He\u2019s also showcasing women, including Carter Faith, Noeline Hofmann, Noah Cyrus, and Brittney Spencer.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a tour celebrating country music in all different shapes, sizes, colors, and putting it under one umbrella,\u201d Shaboozey says. \u201cA lot of those guys were the ones that weren\u2019t winning awards, they were the ones that were outside of it all. We all romanticize that life, but like, who\u2019s really living like that, you know? Kashus, Brittany, BigX, Carter, Noah, all of us. I feel like we\u2019re all outlaws.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIf an outlaw is also defined as someone who makes their own rules, then Shaboozey qualifies. He knows there\u2019s pressure on him to follow up the impossible success of \u201cA Bar Song (Tipsy),\u201d and yet instead of trying to duplicate that hit, he\u2019s swinging for the fences with an ambitious concept record. He admits he\u2019s been thinking a little about the \u201csophomore slump,\u201d but that doesn\u2019t quite pertain to him: The Outlaw Cherie Lee<\/em> is Shaboozey\u2019s fourth album, after all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHe\u2019s also having to remind people \u2014 via his cowboy imagery and detailed answers about Marty Robbins and Townes Van Zandt \u2014 that he is a country music artist through and through.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cA big thing with me entering this space was, it\u2019s bravery, you know? It\u2019s about having courage,\u201d he says. \u201cYou can ask my mom, \u2018What\u2019s the one thing that Collins, or Boozey, said growing up?\u2019 And he said he wants to change the world.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tHe relates that to something his immigrant father taught him: \u201cMy dad was really big on individualism. He always talked about being an individual and not being in groupthink, not being in herd thinking. I want to do great things,\u201d he continues, \u201cand I know to do something great, you kind of got to be uncomfortable. And you might be threatening to some people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore getting into music, Shaboozey had dreams of becoming a novelist. He loves words and storytelling, and still harbors a dream of one day writing his great American novel or memoir. He already has a very outlaw title picked out: The Legend of the Kid<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI have a song called \u2018The Legend of the Kid,\u2019 which hopefully comes out at some point. It\u2019s not on the album, but the first moments when I felt like I\u2019m being called were as a young kid,\u201d he says. \u201cThat was the first time where I started questioning things and being curious, like \u2018Why are things like this, why can\u2019t they be like this?\u2019 Who I am now is really just the same as when I was that kid, wide-eyed in a small pond, figuring out what the rest of the world is like.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA FEW WEEKS AFTER the ACM Awards \u2014 where Shaboozey loses in his two nominated categories \u2014 he and I regroup for a chat on Zoom. He\u2019s back in L.A. and gearing up for the release of \u201cCowgirl,\u201d an irresistibly hooky track on The Outlaw Cherie Lee<\/em> that sounds like \u201cWagon Wheel\u201d crossed with \u201cA Bar Song.\u201d Written years before \u201cA Bar Song,\u201d it has the potential to match that enormous hit. (In a move that underscores his pop culture savvy, Shaboozey cast Ciara Miller, star of Bravo\u2019s Summer House<\/em><\/a> reality show, as the video\u2019s gun-toting, whiskey-shooting lead.)<\/p>\n

\n\tToday, he\u2019s wearing a scarf wrapped around his head, and excitedly asks if he can show me something. Bounding out of the room, Shaboozey returns clutching his Grammy trophy for Best Country Duo\/Group Performance. He\u2019s removed his headscarf and is now rubbing it over the gramophone.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI gotta keep this thing polished,\u201d he says with a huge laugh, before positioning it so that his name, front and center on the plaque, clearly faces the camera.<\/p>\n

\n\tWe talk about what\u2019s to come after The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales<\/em>. With a historic hit song behind him, one that\u2019s been streamed more than a billion and a half times, and his first Grammy, what does Shaboozey hope for next? More crossover hits? A shelf of Grammys? A ride off into the sunset like the outlaws he writes about?<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI want to take this as far as it can go,\u201d he says without hesitation. \u201cI\u2019m super competitive, and I really believe in myself. I want to continue to get better at my craft and continue to make really cool, prolific stuff that challenges what music and art can be.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThere are plans in the works for a Cherie Lee<\/em> graphic novel, and he\u2019s trying to manifest a visual album that connects every song on the album and could premiere in theaters. He\u2019s also already talked to his manager about recording a \u201ctrue traditional country album\u201d for his next project.<\/p>\n

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But for all his talk of outlaws, Shaboozey can\u2019t help but gravitate toward a hero.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMy real dream is I want to make a Batman movie. I want to be able to call up someone at A24 and call someone up at Lionsgate and be like, \u2018Yo, I got this idea for this movie,\u2019 and they\u2019re like, \u2018Booze, heck yeah, let\u2019s do it!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd if Batman Boozey doesn\u2019t quite come true? He\u2019s still good.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI can wake up in the morning and, if I have a bad day, go down and just grab this thing, and be like, \u2018No matter what anybody does, you did this,\u2019\u201d he says, reaching for his Grammy. \u201c\u2018You made this happen with your name on it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tPhotographs by Sacha Lecca\t<\/h5>\n
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PRODUCTION AND CLOTHING CREDITS<\/p>\n

Styling by ANASTASIA WALKER<\/strong> for The Only Agency. Hair by JILL BURGESS<\/strong>. Grooming by ARIANE VICTORIA<\/strong> for The Only Agency using The Hartsfield Collection. Set Designer: LANE VINEYARD<\/strong>. Set design team: GERM\u00c1N ROJAS <\/strong>and GABRIELLE ARRIAGA<\/strong>. Produced by LAURA BRUNISHOLZ<\/strong> for Danielle Levitt Studio. Photographic assistance by ROSS THOMAS<\/strong> and DANIIL ZAIKIN<\/strong>. Production assistance by JONAH HODARI<\/strong>. Horse: \u201cSPARKY\u201d<\/strong> from CURLY\u2019S COWBOY CENTER<\/strong> in Queens. Videographer: PIERCE JACKSON<\/strong>. Location: THE 1896<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cover and indoor horse: Coat by MAISON MARGIELA<\/strong>. Shirt by VIVIANO.<\/strong>\u00a0 Jeans by PRADA<\/strong>. Boots: talent\u2019s own.\u00a0 Rings by DAVID YURMAN<\/strong>. In chair look: \u00a0T-shirt by REMNANTS VINTAGE<\/strong>. Jeans by 424<\/strong>. Belt by COMSTOCK HERITAGE<\/strong>. Boots by MAISON MARGIELA<\/strong>.\u00a0Rings by DAVID YURMAN<\/strong>. Sweatshirt: Sweatshirt, t-shirt and pants by REMNANTS VINTAGE<\/strong>. Brooch by DAVID WEBB<\/strong>. Outdoor horse look: Vest by VERSACE<\/strong>. T-shirt by TOMMY JOHN<\/strong>. Pants: talent\u2019s own. Gloves by SEYMOURE<\/strong>. Belt by VOGT SILVERSMITHS<\/strong>. Hat by NICK FOUQUET<\/strong>.\u00a0 Boots by MAISON MARGIELA<\/strong>. Red hat: Jacket by 424<\/strong>. Hat by PIPENCO<\/strong>. Off white shirt: t-shirt by REMNANTS VINTAGE<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Rolling Stone Nashville Now: Host: JOSEPH HUDAK.<\/strong> Director\/Producer\/Editor: STEVE JAWN<\/strong>. Producer\/Head of Film & Premium Content:\u00a0ALEXANDRA DALE<\/strong>. Producer: DANI JAWN<\/strong>. Technical Producer\/additional DP: JOSH LOCKHART<\/strong>. Cinematographer: DEREK OXFORD<\/strong>. Visual Effects: GARRETT DELOZIER<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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