Sweet Mother Texas

Infobox Album
Name = Sweet Mother Texas
Type = Studio album
Artist = Waylon Jennings


Released = February 1986
Recorded = Cartee 3 Studio, Nashville
Scottsdale, Arizona
Genre = Country
Outlaw country
Length =
Label = RCA Victor
Producer = Jerry Bridges
Gary Scruggs
Reviews =
Last album = "Turn the Page"
(1985)
This album = "Sweet Mother Texas"
(1986)
Next album = "Will the Wolf Survive"
(1986)

"Sweet Mother Texas" is an album by Waylon Jennings, released on RCA Records in 1986. The singer's last album for the label before his move to MCA, it contains, among others, 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". "Sweet Mother Texas" failed to chart, marking the end of Jennings' twenty-year stay at RCA.

Track listing

#"I'm on Fire" (Bruce Springsteen) – 2:31
#"Me and Them Brothers of Mine" (Tommy L. Jennings)
#"I Take My Comfort in You" (Wayland Holyfield, Guy Clark)
#"Looking for Suzanne" (Paul Kennerley)
#"Be Careful Who You Love (Arthur's Song)" (Harlan Howard) – 4:33
#*With Johnny Cash
#"Sweet Mother Texas" (Sanger D. Shafer, Eddy Raven)
#"Living Legend" (Kris Kristofferson)
#"Hanging On" (Tony Joe White)