Shooter Jennings Announces 'Diamonds' LP With Glen
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- Shooter Jennings announced the new LP 'Diamonds' on CBS Sunday Morning, with physical and download release set for Nov. 13 and streaming in December via Son of Jessi/Thirty Tigers.
- The title track features Glen Campbell on guitar, recorded on a late December 1978 night in the studio with members of the Waylors.
- Jennings said he found the track across three different sessions while combing through his father's work, initially confused by the guitar sound before realizing Campbell had stopped by the studio.
- 'Diamonds' follows 2025's 'Songbird' as the second installment in a planned series of posthumous Waylon Jennings albums curated by his son.
- Shooter Jennings won a Grammy earlier this year for producing Robert Randolph's 'Preacher Kids.'
- On Rolling Stone's Nashville Now podcast, Jennings said he has been approached about opening a Waylon Jennings bar in Nashville — an idea he once rejected because his father didn't drink but is now open to.
- Jennings framed the project as a correction to the public memory of his father, telling CBS: 'All he cared about was music — it wasn't about image, it wasn't about money.'
Why it matters: Shooter Jennings is steadily monetizing and reshaping the Waylon Jennings legacy — a previously unheard Glen Campbell collaboration surfaces more than 45 years after it was recorded, and a Nashville bar concept signals the family is now willing to build a commercial brand around an artist who famously didn't drink.
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