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Reuters - "Waylon Forever," billed as the final recordings from country "outlaw" Waylon Jennings, will be released October 21.

By Ray Waddell

"Waylon Forever," billed as the final recordings from country "outlaw" Waylon Jennings, will be released October 21.

The eight-song Vagrant Records set features remakes, surprising covers and a new Jennings original, all backed by his son Shooter.

The elder Jennings died in 2002, but the recordings date back more than 12 years. In 2006, Shooter and his band the 357's recorded more backing tracks at producer and bandmember Dave Cobb's studio in Los Angeles.

"It wasn't like it's some mysterious story about some unfinished album that was in some closet for 10 years," Shooter told Billboard.com. "We finished the album the best that we could when I was 16. We had all the intentions in the world to get it out there and get a record deal with it."

The album features relatively faithful, if edgier, renditions of Jennings standards like Neil Young's "Are You Ready for the Country," Rodney Crowell's "Ain't Livin' Long Like This," and Jennings' own "Waymore's Blues"; a stirring ballad reworking of "Outlaw Sh-t" (previously released as "Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out of Hand"), a cover of Cream's "White Room," as well as the never-released, Waylon-penned "I Found the Body."

"When nothing happened (the recordings) kind of just disappeared, and about two years ago Dave my producer and (girlfriend) Drea (De Matteo) both were like, 'You've got to do something with that'," Jennings said. "Thank you to modern technology. It doesn't sound like we dug up some vocals that had always been there and we had to do magic to make it sound new. It's all about bringing my musical side of everything I do around him and creating this completely different but acceptable space that he fits in."

Shooter's most recent album, "The Wolf," was released last October by Universal South. He comes off the road in September and said he'll begin work on a new record in October on a label to be determined.

"It's gonna be a pretty wild record. It's not going to be the normal record by any means," Jennings said. "If they didn't play me before on country radio, they're really not gonna play me now."

Reuters/Billboard