{"id":1964322,"date":"2025-08-16T18:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1964322"},"modified":"2025-08-16T18:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:31:12","slug":"new-unheard-waylon-jennings-song-emerges-billboard-mystery-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-unheard-waylon-jennings-song-emerges-billboard-mystery-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"New Unheard Waylon Jennings Song Emerges, Billboard Mystery Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"pryc-wp-acctp-original-content\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><br\/>It was announced on June 15th, which happened to be Waylon\u2019s Birthday, that not one, not two, but <strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/savingcountrymusic.com\/three-albums-of-unheard-waylon-jennings-songs-on-the-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">three full albums of unheard Waylon Jennings songs<\/a><\/strong> were on the way. Waylon\u2019s son Shooter has unearthed a trove on previously-unheard Waylon Jennings recordings, and has gone through them to assemble them into albums. The recordings weren\u2019t cohesive albums at the start. They were leftover recordings from various sessions throughout Waylon\u2019s career. <\/p><p>The first installment from these albums called <em>Songbird<\/em> will be released on October 3rd, with the title track released in June. The first song was Waylon\u2019s version of the Fleetwood Mac tune written and sung by Christine McVie. Now we get another unheard track from the upcoming album, and its another dandy. <\/p><p>The new song is called \u201cThe Cowboy (Small Texas Town),\u201d and it\u2019s taken from the same recording sessions of Waylon\u2019s 1978 album <em>I\u2019ve Always Been Crazy<\/em>. This is the same album that Waylon\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t You Think This Outlaw Bit\u2019s Done Got Out of Hand\u201d came from. That became a hit, along with the title track. Waylon produced the sessions himself with drummer Richie Albright. <\/p><p>\u201cThe Cowboy (Small Texas Town)\u201d was written by fellow country legend Johnny Rodriguez, but it\u2019s the perfect composition for Waylon, singing about humble beginnings in small town Texas (In Waylon\u2019s case, Littlefield), along with referencing the \u201chippies and cowboys\u201d scene that Waymore stumbled upon in Austin, TX after Willie Nelson convinced him to head there from Nashville. <\/p><p>The song also takes a stab at white collar criminals\u2014something Waylon interfaced with regularly in the music business. <\/p><p><em>That white collar crowd may be stealing, anything that the law will allow<\/em><br\/><em>With a pen for a gun they can\u2019t have no fun, \u2019cause they don\u2019t fit in our crazy crowd<\/em><\/p><p>You can tell that the end of the song gets cut off somewhat abruptly, and is perhaps the reasons it ended up on the cutting house floor. But loose ends and all, Waylon fans won\u2019t be looking this gift horse in the mouth. <\/p><p>\u201cThe Cowboy (Small Texas Town)\u201d was released Thursday evening\/Friday morning like many new tracks are. But on Friday evening, a video emerged for the song that answers the question many Waylon fans from his hometown of Littlefield and beyond have been asking: Who is behind the mysterious billboards that have appeared throughout the town of 6,000 in the Texas panhandle? <\/p><p>It was pretty obvious the answer was probably Shooter Jennings as part of the rollout of the new Waylon albums. But the video spills the beans as it\u2019s made up of footage of crews installing the new Billboards, including one that reads, <em>\u201cI\u2019m a cowboy who came here from Texas just to play you my music that\u2019s all,\u201d<\/em> which is one of the lines from the new song \u201cThe Cowboy.\u201d <\/p><p>A second Billboard also reads, <em>\u201cMy long, shaggy hair and the clothes that I wear don\u2019t fit your big fancy ball,\u201d<\/em> also taken from the song. The video also features \u201cWaymore\u2019s,\u201d which is a liquor store in Littlefield operated by Waylon\u2019s young brother James Jennings and his wife. <\/p><p>The upcoming album <em>Songbird<\/em>\u00a0is currently available for\u00a0<strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/waylonjennings.ffm.to\/songbird\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">presave\/preorder<\/a><\/strong>.<br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Waylon Jennings - The Cowboy (Small Texas Town)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5lGzz0ogp4Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<!-- PRyC WP: Add custom content to bottom of post\/page: Standard Content START --><\/div>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source savingcountrymusic.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was announced on June 15th, which happened to be Waylon\u2019s Birthday, that not one, not two, but three full albums of unheard Waylon Jennings songs were on the way. Waylon\u2019s son Shooter has unearthed a trove on previously-unheard Waylon Jennings recordings, and has gone through them to assemble them into albums. 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