It was introduced on June fifteenth, which occurred to be Waylon’s Birthday, that not one, not two, however three full albums of unheard Waylon Jennings songs have been on the way in which. Waylon’s son Shooter has unearthed a trove on previously-unheard Waylon Jennings recordings, and has gone by them to assemble them into albums. The recordings weren’t cohesive albums in the beginning. They have been leftover recordings from numerous classes all through Waylon’s profession.
The primary installment from these albums referred to as Songbird will probably be launched on October third, with the title monitor launched in June. The primary tune was Waylon’s model of the Fleetwood Mac tune written and sung by Christine McVie. Now we get one other unheard monitor from the upcoming album, and its one other dandy.
The brand new tune is named “The Cowboy (Small Texas City),” and it’s taken from the identical recording classes of Waylon’s 1978 album I’ve All the time Been Loopy. This is similar album that Waylon’s “Don’t You Assume This Outlaw Bit’s Finished Obtained Out of Hand” got here from. That grew to become a success, together with the title monitor. Waylon produced the classes himself with drummer Richie Albright.
“The Cowboy (Small Texas City)” was written by fellow nation legend Johnny Rodriguez, but it surely’s the proper composition for Waylon, singing about humble beginnings in small city Texas (In Waylon’s case, Littlefield), together with referencing the “hippies and cowboys” scene that Waymore stumbled upon in Austin, TX after Willie Nelson satisfied him to move there from Nashville.
The tune additionally takes a stab at white collar criminals—one thing Waylon interfaced with usually within the music enterprise.
That white collar crowd could also be stealing, something that the legislation will permit
With a pen for a gun they’ll’t haven’t any enjoyable, ’trigger they don’t slot in our loopy crowd
You possibly can inform that the top of the tune will get reduce off considerably abruptly, and is probably the explanations it ended up on the chopping home ground. However free ends and all, Waylon followers received’t be trying this present horse within the mouth.
“The Cowboy (Small Texas City)” was launched Thursday night/Friday morning like many new tracks are. However on Friday night, a video emerged for the tune that solutions the query many Waylon followers from his hometown of Littlefield and past have been asking: Who’s behind the mysterious billboards which have appeared all through the city of 6,000 within the Texas panhandle?
It was fairly apparent the reply was in all probability Shooter Jennings as a part of the rollout of the brand new Waylon albums. However the video spills the beans because it’s made up of footage of crews putting in the brand new Billboards, together with one which reads, “I’m a cowboy who got here right here from Texas simply to play you my music that’s all,” which is among the strains from the brand new tune “The Cowboy.”
A second Billboard additionally reads, “My lengthy, shaggy hair and the garments that I put on don’t suit your huge fancy ball,” additionally taken from the tune. The video additionally options “Waymore’s,” which is a liquor retailer in Littlefield operated by Waylon’s younger brother James Jennings and his spouse.
The upcoming album Songbird is presently accessible for presave/preorder.
