Black on Black

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Black on Black
Black on Black cover
Studio album by Waylon Jennings
Released February 1982
Genre Country/Outlaw country
Length 29:16
Label RCA Victor
Producer(s) Chips Moman
Professional reviews
Waylon Jennings chronology
Leather and Lace
(1982)
Music Man
(1980)
WWII
(1982)


Black on Black is an album by Waylon Jennings, released on RCA Victor in 1982. The second Jennings record, after 1977's Ol' Waylon, to be produced by Chips Moman, who had collaborated with Willie Nelson on Always on My Mind, Nelson's most successful album, Black on Black features a different sound than most Jennings albums of the period, prominently including electric pianos and backing vocals, the latter performed primarily by Jennings' wife, Jessi Colter. One of many re-recordings of Jennings' "Just to Satisfy You", this time with Willie Nelson, hit the top of the country charts; a cover of Johnny Cash's classic "Folsom Prison Blues" is also of note. Black on Black, unlike most of Jennings' chart-topping solo albums of the previous several years, reached #3 on the country charts, ultimately ending the singer's string of highly successful releases.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Women Do Know How to Carry On" (Emmons/Jennings) – 3:17
  2. "Honky Tonk Blues" (Hank Williams, Sr.) – 2:42
  3. "Just to Satisfy You" (Bowman/Jennings) – 2:48
  4. "(We Made It as Lovers) We Just Couldn't Make It as Friends" (Emmons/Moman) – 2:12
  5. "Shine" (Jennings) – 2:49
  6. "Folsom Prison Blues" (Johnny Cash) – 2:40
  7. "Gonna Write a Letter" (Paul Kennerley) – 2:35
  8. "May I Borrow Some Sugar from You" (Emmons/Moman) – 3:21
  9. "Song for the Life" (Crowell) – 3:39
  10. "Get Naked With Me" (Emmons) – 3:13