Jessi Colter, the first lady of the Outlaw Country movement, has a new album on the way, one that pairs her up with a contemporary country rebel in Margo Price. According to a series of tweets by the artists, Price spent a week in May in Nashville producing Colters latest project. The as-yet-untitled album is the follow-up to 2017s The Psalms, a collection of stripped-down religious recordings that were produced by Lenny Kaye.
I spent the entire past week producing an incredible new album for the OG Queen of Outlaw Country, @Jessi_Colter! Price wrote, breaking the news. Her songs, playing and voice are as strong as ever. I cant wait for yall to hear this record! And yes, I am still 9 months pregnant. (Price and husband Jeremy Ivey will welcome a baby girl any day now.)
[Price] & I recorded last weekshes the bomb producer & her band defied gravityit was a dance, Colter confirmed, teasing that the LP is made up of original tunes with [a] whole new sound.
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.@MissMargoPrice & I recorded last week ..shes the bomb producer & her band defied gravityit was a dance we did my original recent songs with whole new soundmore news to come pic.twitter.com/Vh8q10zNIB
Jessi Colter (@Jessi_Colter) May 11, 2019
As a solo artist and as the wife of Waylon Jennings, Colter was at ground zero for the birth of the Seventies Outlaw Country era. In 1975, she released the influential Im Jessi Colter, featuring the hit Im Not Lisa, and later joined Jennings, Willie Nelson and Tompall Glaser on the 1976 compilation Wanted! The Outlaws, the first country album to be certified platinum.
I was the only one that had a gold record at that point, she told Rolling Stone in 2017 of The Outlaws album. And I look like the token girl [on the cover]. But thats OK. That was just fine with me. In those days they could not field enough men to press the records. They were in no way prepared to make that many.
Colter released a memoir detailing her career and her relationship with Jennings in 2017. Last year, she performed in an all-star concert co-produced by her son Shooter Jennings to open the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museums expansive Outlaws & Armadillos: Countrys Roaring 70s exhibit.