Waylon Jennings - Songbird (Official Music Video)

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Songbird is the first of three albums to be released on Son of Jessi/Thirty Tigers on October 3rd, 2025. In June of 2024, Shooter Jennings unearthed and cataloged his father's personal recording collection of tapes. Inside he found enough finished songs to release three albums. One of the first songs he found was "Songbird". Though that song didn't need any additional musicians, Shooter enlisted Ashley Monroe and Elizabeth Cook to sing backgrounds on the song.

For the rest of the album, and the subsequent to-be-released albums, when there were songs that needed a little musical love, Shooter brought in four of the living members of Waylon's Band, the Waylors (Jerry Bridges, Carter Robertson, Barny Robertson and Gordon Payne), to do a little work on the songs.

This video is a compilation of footage from Waylon's 44th Birthday Party in Nashville in 1981, the first footage of the Waylors entrance to Snake Mountain (Sunset Sound Studio 3), the Waylors hearing the unearthed material for the first time, the Waylors helping finish material across the three forthcoming albums, as well as footage of Ashley Monroe and Elizabeth cook performing their background vocals on "Songbird".

"Songbird"
Produced by Waylon Jennings & Richie Albright
Mixed by Shooter Jennings & Nate Haessly
Directed by Greg Olliver
Director of Photography: Matt Irwin, CSC
Edited by Dean Gonzalez & Shooter Jennings

Pre-order / pre-save the album - https://waylonjennings.ffm.to/songbird

Lyrics:
For you, there'll be no more crying
For you, the sun will be shining
And I feel that when I'm with you
It's alright, I know it's right

To you, I'll give the world
To you, I'll never be cold
Cause I feel that when I'm with you
It's alright, I know it's right

And the songbirds are singing
Like they know the score
And I love you, I love you, I love you
Like never before

And I wish you all the love in the world
But most of all, I wish it from myself

For you, there'll be no more crying
For you, the sun will be shining
And I feel that when I'm with you
It's alright, I know it's right

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