@@dbauer07 agreed!

Thanks for listening and for your kind comment

Wouldn't we all??!! Damn!!!!

Thanks for letting us know! and for listening

She is not Jesse Compton's Daughter. Jennifer is the Daughter of Duane Eddy and Jessi Colter. And the Stepp Daughter of Waylon Jennings.

From what I understand the artists get an advance to cover the cost of production and advertising. They then have to pay that back out of the Pennie’s they make on each album. It’s a tough world.

@@lilolmecj … but that wasn’t the case for Jessi, according to her interviews, the interviews of her producers at Capitol, Jessi’s own bio, etc. Jessi had been performing and writing since age 16 when she met Duane Eddy (Jenni’s mother), living an LA life in Beverly Hills, writing high profile pop tunes (including ‘If He’d Love Me’ a track on Nancy Sinatra’s “Boots” album). Jessi’s signing with Capitol in 1974 changed everything: Ken Mansfield was her producer and her 1975 album “I’m Jessi Colter” and her single “I’m Not Lisa”-all self-written, soared to the top of the country and pop charts. Jessi was already a major pop star before the “Outlaws” album. Jessi also BOUGHT their Brentwood home, Southern Comfort, in 1976 with HER royalties. Waylon was cash-poor even after the Outlaws success for a number of (ahem) reasons. We need only take the word of RCA’s exec, Jerry Bradley, when he was discussing the entire “plan” for the phenomenal 1976 “Outlaws” album. Keep in mind that Bradley was the head of Waylon’s label up to that time: “Waylon was selling, if we were lucky, 150,000 or 200,000 albums, at best. Meanwhile, Willie was over at Columbia and ‘Red Headed Stranger’ took off and sold a million, and Jessi was at Capitol and released ‘I’m Jessi Colter’ and that thing lit a fire under our asses, sold a million, and we had back-catalogue music from both of them in the vault. We wanted to use their stuff and put Waylon at the top so he might sell a million, too.” What a lot of people forget in hindsight is that Jessi Colter was the bigger sensation and bigger international star before Waylon was, on a competing label. It was a bone of contention in their marriage, to quote Jessi’s late, great producer, Ken Mansfield, who loved both Jessi and Waylon. Not every kid knows their parent’s details and business. BUT, I will say that Jenni is a genuine talent. I bought her mother’s 2023 album, Edge of Forever, and she accompanies Jessi brilliantly on some tracks (especially the closing one) and co-wrote a fantastic song for the album with Margo Price. She is gifted and doesn’t have to “look” like her Mom to be a meaningful artist. Just be herself and write her spirit. I’d buy an album of hers because she has a lovely voice, sings with soul, and is her own person.

Hard to believe isn’t it?