Leather and Lace

Leather and Lace
Studio album by Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter
Released	February 1981
Genre	Country Outlaw country
Label	RCA Victor
Producer	Waylon Jennings Richie Albright
Waylon Jennings chronology
Music Man (1980) Leather and Lace (1981) Black on Black (1982)
Jessi Colter chronology
That's the Way a Cowboy Rocks and Rolls (1978) Leather and Lace (1981) Ridin' Shotgun (1981)

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Leather and Lace is a duet album by Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, 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 respectively) was released rather successfully as a single, reaching #10 on the country charts. The album itself reached #11. 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.

Track listing

1. "You Never Can Tell (C'est la Vie)" (Chuck Berry)
2. "Rainy Seasons" (Colter, Basil McDavid)
3. "I'll Be Alright" (Jennings, Jerry Bridges, Michael Lawley)
4. "The Wild Side of Life"/"It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" (William Warren, Arlie A. Carter)
5. "Pastels & Harmony" (Gordon Payne, Bee Spears)
6. "I Believe You Can" (Colter, Basil McDavid)
7. "What's Happened to Blue Eyes" (Colter)
8. "Storms Never Last" (Colter)
9. "I Ain't the One" (Miriam Eddy)
10. "You're Not my Same Sweet Baby" (Mickey Newbury)

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