Waylon Jennings & Jessi Colter - Leather And Lace (1981)

Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter made hits together as early as 1970, but it wasn't until 1981 that they recorded an entire album of duets.
“Leather And Lace” is their duet album, released on RCA Victor in 1981. It was the famous couple's first album together, though they had sung individual duets together prior to the release of “Leather and Lace”. "You Never Can Tell (C'est la Vie)" is a well-known Chuck Berry song (with a country version having charted a few years prior by Emmylou Harris). The medley of "The Wild Side of Life"/"It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" (originally 1952 hits for Hank Thompson and Kitty Wells. Although Jennings was, at the time of the album's release, most famous for his involvement with the outlaw country movement, “Leather and Lace” abandons the outlaw image in favor of calmer selections consisting partly of love songs. Stevie Nicks had been commissioned by Jennings to write a single for this album which would have been the title cut, although the song did not appear on the album. Nicks went on to record the song with Don Henley on the album “Bella Donna” and it would become a top-ten U.S. hit in late 1981.


01.  You Never Can Tell (C'est La Vie)  (Berry)  - 3:12 
02.  Rainy Season   (McDavid, Colter)  - 2:34 
03.  I'll Be Alright   (Michael Lawley, Bridges, Jennings)  - 1:53 
04.  Wild Side Of Life   (Carter, Warren)  - 3:20 
05.  Pastels And Harmony   (Spears, Payne)  - 3:18 
06.  I Believe You Can   (McDavid, Colter)  - 2:56 
07.  What's Happened To Blue Eyes   (Colter)  - 2:32 
08.  Storms Never Last   (Colter)  - 3:04 
09.  I Ain't The One   (Colter)  - 2:25 
10.  You're Not My Same Sweet Baby  (Newbury)  - 3:47 

Credits
Jessi Colter - Keyboards, Piano, Vocals
Waylon Jennings - Guitar, Producer, Vocals
Gordon Payne, Bucky Wilkin, Pete Wade, Sonny Curtis - guitar
Ralphn Mooney - steel/dobro
Norbert Putman, Jerry Bridges - bass
Kenneth Buttrey, Richie Albright - drums/percussion
Berny Robertson - keyboards
Charlie McCoy - harmonica
Carter Robertson - vocals
Producer - Richie Albright, Waylon Jennings
Engineer - Don Cobb, Dennis Alexander
Art Direction - Herb Burnette

Notes
Recorded at: Pantheon Recording Studio, Paradise Valley Arizona
Layout [Album Cover Concept] – Jerry Bradley
Genre: Country, Outlaw Country
Manufactured By – RCA Limited
Marketed By – RCA Limited
© 1981 RCA Victor Records