{"id":86041,"date":"2026-06-25T10:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/waylon-jennings-son-shooter-on-rescuing-his-dads-music\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T10:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:05:19","slug":"waylon-jennings-son-shooter-on-rescuing-his-dads-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/waylon-jennings-son-shooter-on-rescuing-his-dads-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Waylon Jennings&#8217; son Shooter on rescuing his dad&#8217;s music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Shooter Jennings is a singer, musician, and the producer of Grammy-award winning albums for Brandi Carlisle and Tanya Tucker. At Sunset Sound in Hollywood, where Dolly Parton, Fleetwood Mac and Prince all recorded, Jennings \u2013 who&#8217;s made about 40 records here \u2013 is now using the space to produce a project that is deeply personal and emotional.<\/p>\n<p>Having a conversation about his father, he says, will get him teared up. &#8220;I wear my emotions on my face all the time anyway, so for everybody out there, I&#8217;m a crier,&#8221; he laughed.<\/p>\n<p>Raw emotions from the son of a man known for them: Waylon Jennings. With his black hat, beard and baritone voice, Waylon defined the rebel, gritty spirit of the country music outlaw movement. Blending honkytonk, folk, and Southern rock to create a revolutionary sound, Waylon had 16 #1 hits, including &#8220;I&#8217;m a Rambling Man,&#8221; &#8220;Mamas Don&#8217;t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys&#8221; (with Willie Nelson), and the theme song for TV&#8217;s &#8220;The Dukes of Hazzard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shooter is keeping his father&#8217;s legacy alive by producing long-lost material which he found stashed away. So far, there are two albums: &#8220;Songbird,&#8221; and the upcoming &#8220;Diamonds.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>To hear the title track from the Waylon Jennings album &#8220;Diamonds&#8221; (featuring The Waylors with Glen Campbell on guitar), click on the video player below:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-youtube-video embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-video\">\n<p>\n    <iframe class=\"embed__content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/d1buxJuspPo?autoplay=0&amp;rel=1&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com&amp;playsinline=1\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" title=\"Diamonds\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n  <\/p><figcaption>\n    <span class=\"embed__caption\"><br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/d1buxJuspPo\" rel=\"noopener\">Diamonds<\/a><\/cite> by<br \/>\n      <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCOayq7etITYmC6TlZReZSrw\" rel=\"noopener\">Waylon Jennings &#8211; Topic<\/a><\/cite> on<br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m proud of him and I&#8217;m proud of the work that I&#8217;m doing, and I&#8217;m proud of the legacy he left behind, because you know, he just was a good guy,&#8221; said Shooter. <\/p>\n<p>Listening to the previously unreleased tracks, Shooter said, &#8220;It felt like he was having a conversation with the listener.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And talking to you? &#8220;Yeah, yeah, for sure. Talking to anyone who knows and loves his voice. It&#8217;s, like, emotional, beautiful material about love and life, and that&#8217;s what he connected with \u2013 the music, and the lyrics, and the dream.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/06\/19\/48fb4a55-1a33-4937-a9b8-0ea72369adc5\/thumbnail\/620x349\/4fb4ebfc8f90421d5bf4b3ddcdfbb9b8\/shooter-jennings-with-robert-costa.jpg#\" alt=\"shooter-jennings-with-robert-costa.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/06\/19\/48fb4a55-1a33-4937-a9b8-0ea72369adc5\/thumbnail\/620x349\/4fb4ebfc8f90421d5bf4b3ddcdfbb9b8\/shooter-jennings-with-robert-costa.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/06\/19\/48fb4a55-1a33-4937-a9b8-0ea72369adc5\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/6963eb2fbcd807020fa1c14fa60afda3\/shooter-jennings-with-robert-costa.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Music producer Shooter Jennings with correspondent Robert Costa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>That dream began in a small town in the Lone Star State. Shooter says Texas played a big role in shaping his father, &#8220;because he wanted to get out of there so bad, you know? He grew up in this little town that&#8217;s just right between Lubbock and New Mexico, and it&#8217;s, like, flat in every way. Like he says in his book, &#8216;If your dog ran away, you could watch him go for three days!'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While working as a teenage DJ, Waylon Jennings met fellow Texan Buddy Holly. &#8220;He was his best friend,&#8221; said Shooter. &#8220;My dad always told me: not a day went by that he didn&#8217;t think about Buddy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Holly encouraged Waylon to become a musician. They toured together, and were playing the same show on a fateful night in Iowa in 1959. &#8220;The last conversation that was had was like, &#8216;I hope your bus breaks down and you freeze to death.&#8217; And then he says, &#8216;I hope your whole plane crashes,&#8217; you know?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shooter says he was haunted by Holly&#8217;s death. But he carried on, started a band, and eventually moved to Nashville, where he became a star, and a symbol of a new kind of sound.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to define outlaw country, Shooter replied, &#8220;It was a marketing tool. They came up with it in Nashville. It was a way to package Waylon and Willie, and then kind of called it the outlaw movement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shooter said his father changed music: &#8220;He got his creative freedom and artistic integrity and control, which is what he wanted. and that kind of freed everybody else in Nashville \u2013 independence for artists.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Waylon was uncompromising, and controversial; he walked out during the &#8220;We Are the World&#8221; recording session. &#8220;He goes, &#8216;This isn&#8217;t about the kids.&#8217; That&#8217;s the first thing he thought. He thought, &#8216;This is about the look of this,'&#8221; said Shooter, whose father thought too much attention was on photo ops, not fundraising. &#8220;And then he said, &#8216;So by the time it got to be 4:00 in the morning and they were like, &#8216;Let&#8217;s do it in Swahili,&#8217; he was like, &#8216;I&#8217;m out of here. I&#8217;ve been here all day. This has been too long.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And they were gonna keep going, you know, and make him try to learn a language or something. And I think he was already like, &#8216;I can&#8217;t speak any other languages,&#8217; you know? And later, I was on a bus with him, and Paul Simon walked in and he goes, &#8216;Waylon, every one of us wanted to walk out of that thing, and you were the only one that had the ***** to do it!'&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Waylon acknowledged that he long struggled with a drug habit. But he quit cold turkey in 1984. The catalyst, he said, was his young son.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/06\/21\/efb2a61b-9b39-48b9-a090-c998e0a31ddd\/thumbnail\/620x620\/402d76beb2ad6ff0e9515d985af26d49\/waylon-jennings-and-son-shooter-jennings-getty-852216462.jpg#\" alt=\"Waylon Jennings And Shooter Jennings \" height=\"620\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/06\/21\/efb2a61b-9b39-48b9-a090-c998e0a31ddd\/thumbnail\/620x620\/402d76beb2ad6ff0e9515d985af26d49\/waylon-jennings-and-son-shooter-jennings-getty-852216462.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/06\/21\/efb2a61b-9b39-48b9-a090-c998e0a31ddd\/thumbnail\/1240x1240\/a2cab5daf9388ae0c6aafa6776b3e108\/waylon-jennings-and-son-shooter-jennings-getty-852216462.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Country singer-songwriter Waylon Jennings and his son, Shooter Jennings, jam together at home in Nashville, December 9, 1987.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Beth Gwinn\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Waylon was candid about his struggles with drugs, and how he sometimes spent over $1,000 a day. &#8220;It bothered him so much,&#8221; said Shooter. &#8220;It didn&#8217;t affect me one bit. When I was a kid, he quit by the time I was, like, five or six. And I think once he won the battle, was when he realized he didn&#8217;t need it anymore. He was a great dad. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Waylon Jennings died in 2002 at 64.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course I miss him,&#8221; said Shooter. &#8220;But that&#8217;s not why I cry. If I get emotional, it&#8217;s because I feel how important this all is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Diamonds&#8221; will be released later this year. <\/p>\n<p>Asked what keeps him going, Shooter replied, &#8220;I want everybody to know the guy I know. And I think I&#8217;m in a place where I&#8217;m in the studio and I&#8217;m able to put this out there and people will get it and hear it. So, I feel like that should be my purpose, in a way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEB EXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/extended-interview-shooter-jennings-on-father-waylon-jennings\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Watch an extended interview with Shooter Jennings (Video)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-video embed--type-content_video is-video embed--float-left embed--size-medium\"><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/extended-interview-shooter-jennings-on-father-waylon-jennings\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__icon\"><br \/>\n            <svg viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n              <use xlink:href=\"#icon-video\"\/>\n            <\/svg><br \/>\n          <\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__headline\">Extended Interview: Shooter Jennings on father Waylon Jennings<\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <span class=\"embed__video-duration\">21:45<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>For more info:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Story produced by Gabriel Falcon. 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