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舒特·詹宁斯是一名歌手、音乐人，曾为布兰迪·卡莱尔和坦尼娅·塔克制作过获得格莱美奖的专辑。在好莱坞的日落声音录音室——多莉·帕顿、佛利伍麦克合唱团和王子都曾在此录制过音乐——已经在这里制作过约40张唱片的詹宁斯，如今正利用这个空间制作一个饱含私人情感的项目。
谈及父亲时，他坦言自己会落泪。“反正我本来就喜怒形于色，所以对大家来说，我就是个爱哭鬼，”他笑着说。
这份真挚的情感来自一位以情感外放著称的男人的儿子：韦伦·詹宁斯。韦伦以黑色礼帽、胡须和男中音嗓音，定义了乡村音乐叛逆运动中那种桀骜不驯、坚韧不拔的精神。他将酒吧乡村音乐、民谣和南方摇滚融为一体，创造出革命性的音乐风格，拥有16首冠军单曲，包括《我是漂泊之人》、《妈妈别让你的孩子长大成为牛仔》（与威利·纳尔逊合作），以及电视剧《正义前锋》的主题曲。
舒特正通过制作被尘封已久的遗作来延续父亲的音乐遗产。目前已推出两张专辑：《鸣鸟》，以及即将发行的《钻石》。
若想听韦伦·詹宁斯专辑《钻石》的同名主打歌（由韦伦乐队与格伦·坎贝尔担任吉他伴奏），请点击下方播放器：
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1buxJuspPo
YouTube频道“Waylon Jennings – Topic”的《钻石》
“我为他感到骄傲，为我正在做的工作感到骄傲，也为他留下的遗产感到骄傲，因为你知道，他真的是个好人，”舒特说道。
聆听这些此前从未发布的曲目时，舒特说：“感觉他仿佛正在与听众对话。”
和你对话吗？“是的，没错，当然。和所有了解并热爱他嗓音的人对话。这些关于爱与人生的情感饱满又优美的作品，正是他所共情的——音乐、歌词与梦想。”
音乐制作人舒特·詹宁斯与记者罗伯特·科斯塔。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
这个梦想始于孤星州的一座小镇。舒特表示，德克萨斯州对父亲的塑造起到了重要作用：“因为他当时极度渴望离开那里。他成长的小镇就在拉伯克和新墨西哥州之间，放眼望去全是平坦的土地。就像他在自传里写的那样：‘要是你的狗跑丢了，你能盯着它的背影看三天！’”
十几岁时做DJ的韦伦·詹宁斯结识了同为德克萨斯人的巴迪·霍利。“他是韦伦最好的朋友，”舒特说，“我爸爸总跟我说：他没有一天不在想念巴迪。”
霍利鼓励韦伦成为一名音乐人。他们一同巡演，1959年在爱荷华州的那个命运之夜，他们正同台演出。“最后一次对话是这样的：‘希望你的巴士抛锚，冻死你。’然后他又说，‘希望你的整架飞机坠毁’，你懂的？”
舒特说，霍利的死一直萦绕在他心头。但韦伦继续前行，组建了乐队，最终搬到纳什维尔并成为明星，成为一种全新音乐风格的象征。
当被要求定义“叛逆乡村音乐”时，舒特回答：“那只是一个营销工具。是纳什维尔的人想出来的。他们就是想把韦伦和威利包装起来，然后称之为‘叛逆运动’。”
舒特表示，父亲改变了音乐行业：“他争取到了自己想要的创作自由、艺术完整性和控制权。这也解放了纳什维尔的其他所有音乐人——让艺术家获得了独立。”
韦伦从不妥协，也颇具争议；他曾在录制《We Are the World》时中途离场。“他说：‘这不是为了孩子们。’他首先想到的就是这个。他觉得，‘这只是在作秀’，”舒特说道，父亲认为当时太多注意力都放在了拍照上，而非筹款。“然后他说：‘等到凌晨四点，他们还说“我们用斯瓦希里语来唱吧”，他就说“我要走了。我已经在这儿待了一整天，太久了”。’”
“他们还打算继续折腾，让他学一门新语言之类的。我想他当时就想说‘我一门外语都不会’，你懂吗？后来我和他在巴士上，保罗·西蒙走了进来，他说：‘韦伦，我们每个人都想从这件事里脱身，只有你有那个胆子真的走了！’”
韦伦坦言自己长期受毒瘾困扰，但在1984年彻底戒断。他说，促使他戒毒的契机是年幼的儿子。
1987年12月9日，乡村创作歌手韦伦·詹宁斯与儿子舒特·詹宁斯在纳什维尔的家中即兴合奏。贝丝·格温 / 盖蒂图片社
韦伦对自己的吸毒经历直言不讳，有时一天要花掉1000多美元。“这让他痛苦不堪，”舒特说，“但这丝毫没有影响到我。我小时候，他在我五六岁的时候就戒了毒。我想，当他打赢这场仗的时候，他才意识到自己不再需要毒品了。他是个很棒的父亲。”
韦伦·詹宁斯于2002年去世，享年64岁。
“我当然想念他，”舒特说，“但那不是我落泪的原因。如果我情绪激动，那是因为我意识到这一切有多重要。”
《钻石》将于今年晚些时候发行。
当被问及是什么支撑着他继续前行时，舒特回答：“我想让所有人都认识我所了解的那个男人。我觉得我现在身处录音室，能够把这些作品公之于众，让人们了解并听到它们。所以，在某种程度上，我觉得这应该就是我的使命。”
网络独家内容：观看与舒特·詹宁斯的加长采访 https://www.cbsnews.com/video/extended-interview-shooter-jennings-on-father-waylon-jennings/
加长采访：舒特·詹宁斯谈父亲韦伦·詹宁斯 21:45
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Waylon Jennings’ son Shooter on rescuing his dad’s music
June 21, 2026 / 9:47 AM EDT / CBS News
Shooter Jennings is a singer, musician, and the producer of Grammy-award winning albums for Brandi Carlisle and Tanya Tucker. At Sunset Sound in Hollywood, where Dolly Parton, Fleetwood Mac and Prince all recorded, Jennings – who’s made about 40 records here – is now using the space to produce a project that is deeply personal and emotional.
Having a conversation about his father, he says, will get him teared up. “I wear my emotions on my face all the time anyway, so for everybody out there, I’m a crier,” he laughed.
Raw emotions from the son of a man known for them: Waylon Jennings. With his black hat, beard and baritone voice, Waylon defined the rebel, gritty spirit of the country music outlaw movement. Blending honkytonk, folk, and Southern rock to create a revolutionary sound, Waylon had 16 #1 hits, including “I’m a Rambling Man,” “Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys” (with Willie Nelson), and the theme song for TV’s “The Dukes of Hazzard.”
Shooter is keeping his father’s legacy alive by producing long-lost material which he found stashed away. So far, there are two albums: “Songbird,” and the upcoming “Diamonds.”
To hear the title track from the Waylon Jennings album “Diamonds” (featuring The Waylors with Glen Campbell on guitar), click on the video player below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1buxJuspPo
Diamonds by Waylon Jennings – Topic on YouTube
“I’m proud of him and I’m proud of the work that I’m doing, and I’m proud of the legacy he left behind, because you know, he just was a good guy,” said Shooter.
Listening to the previously unreleased tracks, Shooter said, “It felt like he was having a conversation with the listener.”
And talking to you? “Yeah, yeah, for sure. Talking to anyone who knows and loves his voice. It’s, like, emotional, beautiful material about love and life, and that’s what he connected with – the music, and the lyrics, and the dream.”
Music producer Shooter Jennings with correspondent Robert Costa. CBS News
That dream began in a small town in the Lone Star State. Shooter says Texas played a big role in shaping his father, “because he wanted to get out of there so bad, you know? He grew up in this little town that’s just right between Lubbock and New Mexico, and it’s, like, flat in every way. Like he says in his book, ‘If your dog ran away, you could watch him go for three days!’”
While working as a teenage DJ, Waylon Jennings met fellow Texan Buddy Holly. “He was his best friend,” said Shooter. “My dad always told me: not a day went by that he didn’t think about Buddy.”
Holly encouraged Waylon to become a musician. They toured together, and were playing the same show on a fateful night in Iowa in 1959. “The last conversation that was had was like, ‘I hope your bus breaks down and you freeze to death.’ And then he says, ‘I hope your whole plane crashes,’ you know?”
Shooter says he was haunted by Holly’s death. But he carried on, started a band, and eventually moved to Nashville, where he became a star, and a symbol of a new kind of sound.
Asked to define outlaw country, Shooter replied, “It was a marketing tool. They came up with it in Nashville. It was a way to package Waylon and Willie, and then kind of called it the outlaw movement.”
Shooter said his father changed music: “He got his creative freedom and artistic integrity and control, which is what he wanted. and that kind of freed everybody else in Nashville – independence for artists.”
Waylon was uncompromising, and controversial; he walked out during the “We Are the World” recording session. “He goes, ‘This isn’t about the kids.’ That’s the first thing he thought. He thought, ‘This is about the look of this,’” said Shooter, whose father thought too much attention was on photo ops, not fundraising. “And then he said, ‘So by the time it got to be 4:00 in the morning and they were like, “Let’s do it in Swahili,” he was like, “I’m out of here. I’ve been here all day. This has been too long.”
“And they were gonna keep going, you know, and make him try to learn a language or something. And I think he was already like, ‘I can’t speak any other languages,’ you know? And later, I was on a bus with him, and Paul Simon walked in and he goes, ‘Waylon, every one of us wanted to walk out of that thing, and you were the only one that had the * to do it!’”
Waylon acknowledged that he long struggled with a drug habit. But he quit cold turkey in 1984. The catalyst, he said, was his young son.
Country singer-songwriter Waylon Jennings and his son, Shooter Jennings, jam together at home in Nashville, December 9, 1987. Beth Gwinn/Getty Images
Waylon was candid about his struggles with drugs, and how he sometimes spent over $1,000 a day. “It bothered him so much,” said Shooter. “It didn’t affect me one bit. When I was a kid, he quit by the time I was, like, five or six. And I think once he won the battle, was when he realized he didn’t need it anymore. He was a great dad. “
Waylon Jennings died in 2002 at 64.
“Of course I miss him,” said Shooter. “But that’s not why I cry. If I get emotional, it’s because I feel how important this all is.”
“Diamonds” will be released later this year.
Asked what keeps him going, Shooter replied, “I want everybody to know the guy I know. And I think I’m in a place where I’m in the studio and I’m able to put this out there and people will get it and hear it. So, I feel like that should be my purpose, in a way.”
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Watch an extended interview with Shooter Jennings https://www.cbsnews.com/video/extended-interview-shooter-jennings-on-father-waylon-jennings/
Extended Interview: Shooter Jennings on father Waylon Jennings 21:45
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