| Sweet Mother Texas | |
| Type: | Studio album |
| Artist: | Waylon Jennings |
| Cover: | WaylonJenningsSweetMotherTexas.jpg |
| Released: | February 1986 |
| Recorded: | Cartee 3 Studio, Nashville Scottsdale, Arizona |
| Length: | 28:51 |
| Label: | RCA Victor |
| Prev Title: | Turn the Page |
| Prev Year: | 1985 |
| Next Title: | Will the Wolf Survive |
| Next Year: | 1986 |
Sweet Mother Texas is an album by American country music artist Waylon Jennings, released on RCA Records in 1986.[1] "Hanging On" was written by Tony Joe White.[2]
The album contains outtakes from Jennings' recent albums, such as a cover of Bruce Springsteen's "I'm on Fire" and a version of Kris Kristofferson's "Living Legend", which would be recorded by the Highwaymen in 1990, on Highwayman 2. "Looking for Suzanne" had been previously released on Waylon's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2.
The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that "Jennings sounds bored, confused, vague." The Toronto Star noted that "Jennings, like Johnny Cash before him, is in a period of his career that finds him groping for identity."[3] The Atlanta Journal-Constitution concluded that Jennings "seldom seems to be operating at more than 80 percent of his potential."[4] The Houston Chronicle called the album "his most evocative and dirt-country release in years."[5]