Waylon Jennings' new album, compiled and produced by son Shooter Jennings from his father's personal archive, arrives November 13 and is anchored by a 1978 track the two men cut together.

Diamonds, a twelve-song collection of previously unreleased recordings, was announced Sunday during a CBS Sunday Morning segment, anchored by a long-lost recording from December 28, 1978, on which Glen Campbell plays guitar. Physical copies and downloads arrive November 13, 2026, with streaming to follow December 11, through Son of Jessi and Thirty Tigers.

The title track was co-written by Jennings and Campbell, and the original was produced by Waylon's drummer Richie Albright with Tony Joe White. Shooter Jennings compiled, mixed, and produced the album.

The release follows Songbird, the first volume in the series, which came out October 3, 2025, and debuted in the Top 10 of five Billboard charts. That included a No. 6 bow on Top Album Sales — Waylon's first appearance in the Top 10 of that chart and his highest album placement in thirty-five years.

Diamonds is the second of three albums Shooter Jennings is assembling from a trove he opened in 2024: hundreds of full-band multitrack recordings Waylon made with the Waylors between tours, spanning the core of his career. He mixed the new record fully analog at Hollywood's Sunset Sound, working from the original tapes on a 1976 console.

The title song captures a late-night session at the height of Waylon's run, the night Campbell stopped by and sat in on guitar. Both writers are now gone — Jennings died in 2002, Campbell in 2017 — which leaves the surviving tape as the only record of the two Hall of Famers in the same room. They had been friends for years: Campbell co-hosted the CMA Awards in 1975, the night Waylon won Male Vocalist of the Year, and delivered the line that still follows the moment, "All I can say, Waylon, is it's about damn time."

Shooter Jennings found the recording scattered across the archive before he understood what it was. "I kept finding it across three different sessions while I was going through my father's work," he said. "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."

Several collaborators round out the record. Jessi Colter, Waylon's widow and Shooter's mother, appears on two tracks, "I'm Tired" and "Same Old Blues." Harmonica player Mickey Raphael and surviving members of the Waylors helped finish a handful of songs. Track five, "Wild & Blue," is the John Scott Sherrill song that became a No. 1 hit for John Anderson in 1982; Waylon cut his own version in the decade that followed.

Shooter Jennings, who won a Grammy in February 2026 for his work on Robert Randolph's Preacher Kids, framed the project on CBS Sunday Morning as a way to let his father speak for himself. "When somebody is gone, the public remembrance of them can be distorted," he said. "People can remember the outlaw part of this, or fantasize what he was like, but he's not here to represent himself. All he cared about was music."

The full sequence runs: "Diamonds," "Saturday Night Special," "I Never Said It Would Be Easy," "I'm Tired," "Wild & Blue," "The Good Things Don't Last Very Long," "She Smiles Like A River," "I Just Ain't Been Able," "Lost Love Song," "Same Old Blues," "Born Too Late," and "Words."

Diamonds is available for pre-order now — on CD, a limited 180-gram black vinyl LP pressed in a run of 2,500, and a limited blue cassette pressed in a run of 500 — via the official Waylon Jennings store and Son of Jessi / Thirty Tigers.