Jon Dolan
View all posts by Jon Dolan July 31, 2026
Hunter Moreno* On his third album, 2024’s Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going, and its monster hit, “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” Shaboozey is a cowboy for our times. The Virginia-raised Nigerian American artist is blessed with a cavernous baritone and a sense of music history where rap and country converse as equally elastic genres and equally deep traditions. It’s no surprise to hear him thinking big with his ambitious new concept album, The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales. According to Shaboozey, the LP tells the story of a sheriff’s daughter who sees her daddy gunned down, takes to the trail seeking vengeance, and ends up falling for one of the killers — a romance tucked inside an outlaw epic, right on par for a guy who does well with genre mashups.
