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Shooter Jennings will release a new album of recordings by his father Waylon Jennings in November. Courtesy of Shooter Jennings* Shooter Jennings is continuing the rollout of previously unheard Waylon Jennings recordings. On Sunday — Father’s Day — Jennings announced the release of the new LP Diamonds during an appearance on CBS Sunday Morning.
The album, due in physical formats and to download on Nov. 13 and streaming in December, is the latest example of Waylon’s commitment not to an outlaw aesthetic but to the music.
“When somebody is gone, there tends to be…the public remembrance of them can be distorted. People can remember the outlaw part of this or fantasize what he was like, but he’s not here to represent himself,” Jennings tells CBS Sunday Morning. “But what I felt was so important was you saw how much he loved music… He connected with those songs. All he cared about was music — it wasn’t about image, it wasn’t about money, or anything beyond wanting to be great at music and play music.”
Diamonds arrives with the release of the title track, a song that features Glen Campbell on guitar.
“This track eluded me,” Jennings said in a statement. “I kept finding it across three different sessions while I was going through my father‘s work. At first, I was very confused because of the sound of the guitar as to what it was. Suddenly, upon listening to the whole thing, I realized Glen Campbell had stopped by the studio and they recorded this little gem on a late December night in 1978. The remaining members of the Waylors helped put the picture together. It quickly became one of my favorite recordings that my dad ever made and I knew I had to have a whole album centered around it.”
