Shooter Jennings says he is using recovered Waylon Jennings material to build upcoming album “Diamonds”

Shooter Jennings is drawing on recovered recordings from his late father, country legend Waylon Jennings, to help shape new music that he plans to release through an upcoming album titled “Diamonds,” according to an interview published Monday by CBS News. Jennings, who is also a singer, musician, and Grammy-winning music producer, said he has been focused on preserving and continuing his father’s legacy through the material he located.

In the CBS report, Jennings described the work as a rescue effort, centered on music that had been “stashed away” and later recovered. He said the material represents an additional layer of his father’s catalog, and he has been producing the tracks in a way that reflects both the original spirit of the recordings and Jennings’ own role as a producer and collaborator.

Jennings’ comments position “Diamonds” as both a creative project and an archival one. The album, as characterized in the CBS News piece, is built around long-lost material he found and then developed into finished tracks. The report frames the work as a family-led effort to ensure that the recordings do not remain inaccessible or unheard.

CBS News also described Shooter Jennings as the son of Waylon Jennings and as a Grammy-winning figure in contemporary music production. In that context, his production role is presented as the bridge between generations, with Jennings using his experience in studio work to bring older material forward for modern listeners.

While the CBS News story emphasizes the personal dimension of the project, it also highlights the professional and technical aspects of turning recovered recordings into release-ready tracks. Jennings’ involvement as producer suggests that decisions about arrangement, sound, and completion are central to the project, rather than simply releasing archival audio as-is.

The CBS interview indicates that “Diamonds” is the culmination of the work of locating the recordings and then producing them into an album format. The story does not outline the album’s full release schedule in the excerpt, but it does present “Diamonds” as a forthcoming release associated with the newly processed material.

For fans and industry observers, the project underscores how legacy artists can remain present in current culture through family stewardship and production workflows. In this case, Shooter Jennings’ stated goal is to make newly found recordings accessible, adding to Waylon Jennings’ body of work through a release built from the recovered tracks.

CBS News did not present additional details in the same report about track lists or specific collaborative credits, focusing instead on Jennings’ role in discovering the material and producing it into “Diamonds.”