''Waylon Forever'' is an outlaw country album by

Waylon Jennings Waylon Jennings (June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He pioneered the Outlaw Movement in country music. Jennings started playing guitar at the age of eight and performed at age f ...

which was released on October 21, 2008, on the

Vagrant Records Vagrant Records is an American record label based in California. It was founded in 1995 by Rich Egan and Jon Cohen. The label focuses on rock, but features artists in a variety of other genres including folk, soul, electronic, and pop. It is home ...

label. The backing band for this album is Waylon's son Shooter and his band, the .357's. Waylon's posthumous album reveals his final recordings of unheard material. Much of this album was recorded in the mid-to-late 1990s but was forgotten about until about 2007. Shooter and his band went in the studio to augment the original recordings. Dave Cobb produced. The song "Outlaw Shit" is a reworked version of "

Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out of Hand "Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out of Hand" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Waylon Jennings. It released in October 1978 as the second single from his album ''I've Always Been Crazy''. The song peaked a ...

Track listing

#"Jack of Diamonds" ( Daniel Moore) – 3:41 #"Outlaw Shit" (Waylon Jennings) – 5:30 #"Ain't Livin' Long Like This" (

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) – 4:36 #" Are You Ready for the Country?" (

Neil Young Neil Percival Young (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian-American singer and songwriter. After embarking on a music career in Winnipeg in the 1960s, Young moved to Los Angeles, joining Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Richie Furay ...

) – 4:01 #"Lonesome On'ry and Mean" ( Steve Young) – 4:21 #"Waymore's Blues" (Waylon Jennings, Curtis Buck) – 5:01 #" White Room" ( Jack Bruce,

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) – 4:26 #"I Found the Body" (Waylon Jennings, Shooter Jennings) – 4:03

Personnel

* David Campbell - string arrangements, conductor * Jessi Colter - vocals * Shooter Jennings -

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electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gui ...

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, vocals *

- acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals *

Ted Russell Kamp Ted Russell Kamp is an American singer-songwriter. He is the bassist for Shooter Jennings' backing band. As a solo artist, Kamp has released 11 albums. Biography Born in New York, Kamp grew up in the Northeast U.S. before moving to Seattle where ...

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

, bouzouki *Bryan Keeling - cymbals,

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*Leroy Powell - acoustic guitar, electric guitar,

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...

*The Settles Connection - vocals *

Robby Turner Robby Turner is an American pedal steel guitarist, best known for his work with Waylon Jennings and his contributions to recordings by many other artists. Biography Early years Turner grew up in a musical family; his parents Doyle and Bernice ...

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- vocals

Chart performance

References

Waylon Jennings albums 2008 albums Vagrant Records albums Albums arranged by David Campbell (composer) Albums produced by Dave Cobb {{2000s-country-album-stub