{"id":2419787,"date":"2026-05-16T19:51:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2419787"},"modified":"2026-05-16T19:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:51:59","slug":"waylon-jennings-billboard-promises-more-new-music-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/waylon-jennings-billboard-promises-more-new-music-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Waylon Jennings Billboard Promises More New Music in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"pryc-wp-acctp-original-content\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><br\/>The 2025 archive album from Waylon Jennings called <em><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/savingcountrymusic.com\/album-review-waylon-jennings-songbird\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Songbird<\/a><\/strong><\/em> was so well-received, some named it their  Album of the Year. It also ended up charting on Billboard\u2019s Country Albums chart at #17\u2014quite a remarkable feat for a new album of old music. <\/p><p>Usually when you get a posthumous \u201cpreviously unheard\u201d release, it\u2019s full of odds and sods, what was left on the cutting house floor, and unfinished business. In truth, that\u2019s not an entirely unfair characterization of the songs <em>Songbird<\/em>. It just happens to be that Waylon Jennings was such a musical beast back in the day, his seconds and scratch tracks are better than most artists\u2019 featured singles. Son Shooter Jennings also did a great job curating and finishing the selections. <\/p><p>When Shooter first announced he\u2019d stumbled upon releasable, unheard tracks from his father, he didn\u2019t promise just one album, but three of them coming from the vault. Well it looks like #2 will be on the way some time in 2026. <\/p><p>A couple of weeks ago, a billboard appeared along Interstate 10 in Southern California just outside of Palm Springs with the visage of Waylon, the word \u201cDiamonds,\u201d and the year 2026. This was around the time the Stagecoach Festival happened in Indio. It\u2019s probably a safe bet this is the first sign of the second release from the Waylon Jennings vault. <\/p><p>At this point we don\u2019t know much more than \u201cDiamonds\u201d is likely the title of the album or the first single from it (or both), and that it will likely arrive in 2026. But according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYQQh-sBwdK\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Dillon Weldon<\/a> who spoke to Waylon grandson Struggle Jennings about it, Struggle said to expect the album to be a little rowdier, and a little more Outlaw than <em>Songbird<\/em> was. <\/p><p>Since <em>Songbird<\/em> came out in October of 2025, perhaps the Fall of 2026 would be a good time for the second release. Either way, it appears we\u2019ll be getting more new old Waylon Jennings music sooner than later. <\/p><p>\u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>If you found this article valuable, consider leaving<\/em><strong><em>\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tiptopjar.com\/trigger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Saving Country Music A TIP<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- PRyC WP: Add custom content to bottom of post\/page: Standard Content START --><\/div><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\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>The 2025 archive album from Waylon Jennings called Songbird was so well-received, some named it their Album of the Year. It also ended up charting on Billboard\u2019s Country Albums chart at #17\u2014quite a remarkable feat for a new album of old music. Usually when you get a posthumous \u201cpreviously unheard\u201d release, it\u2019s full of odds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2419788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2419787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Waylon-Jennings-Billboard-Promises-More-New-Music-in-2026.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2419789,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419787\/revisions\/2419789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2419788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}