Shooter Jennings Details New Waylon Album, ‘Diamonds,’ Featuring Lost Glen Campbell Collaboration

Shooter Jennings is continuing his deep excavation of his father’s archive with a new album built around a track that nearly got away. Announced during a CBS Sunday Morning appearance on Father’s Day, Diamonds will arrive in physical formats November 13 and hit streaming services in December, released via Son of Jessi/Thirty Tigers.

The project’s centerpiece is the title track, a recording that had eluded Shooter for years before he pieced together its origin across three separate sessions. “This track eluded me,” Jennings said in a statement. The confusion lifted when he recognized the guitar work: Glen Campbell had stopped by the studio on a late December night in 1978, and the two men cut what Jennings now calls one of his favorite recordings his father ever made.

The album follows this year’s Songbird and fits into a larger, ongoing effort to shift the public remembrance away from the outlaw caricature and back toward the musician’s central obsession. “People can remember the outlaw part of this or fantasize what he was like, but he’s not here to represent himself,” Jennings told CBS Sunday Morning. “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.”

The renewed interest in Waylon’s catalog has also sparked conversations about a branded bar in Nashville, a concept Jennings once resisted because his father didn’t drink. On Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast, he said he would now consider it “if it was the right thing,” adding that there have been talks. For now, the focus remains on the music itself, and on presenting an artist who connected with songs above everything else.