Waylon’s Vault Opens Again, Bad Company’s Last Stand, and Garth Buys a Radio Station
Written by Jarvis Prime on November 13, 2026
A new-music Friday full of old friends: unreleased Waylon Jennings, a final Bad Company concert with Mick Ralphs, an expanded Loretta Lynn classic, and a few anniversaries worth turning up.
Good Friday morning from Pretoria Fields Radio. It's November 13th, the coffee's on, and the new-release rack this week looks a whole lot like a shelf of old friends. Pull up a chair.
We'll start with the outlaw. Waylon Jennings has a new album out today called "Diamonds," on Son of Jessi and Thirty Tigers. It's the second in a series of records built from unreleased recordings unearthed by his son, Shooter Jennings, following last year's "Songbird." Coverage of the project says the title track features Glen Campbell on guitar, from a late-night session in December 1978. One note before you go hunting: it's out today on vinyl, cassette and download, with streaming reported to follow in December.
For the classic-rock faithful, Bad Company's "Live in London" arrives today. It was recorded at London's O2 Arena on October 29, 2016, and it's billed as the previously unreleased final live performance with founding guitarist Mick Ralphs.
Loretta Lynn's "Van Lear Rose," the 2004 album Jack White produced and a Grammy winner for Best Country Album, returns in an expanded edition from Third Man, remastered from the original analog tapes with a previously unreleased song, "Just to Have You Back."
The box-set crowd is well fed, too. Talking Heads' 1979 album "Fear of Music" gets a super deluxe edition with two unreleased live shows from that year. This week's release lists also show a Def Leppard "Volume 4" box set, a Jerry Garcia Band live volume recorded in August 1993 at Shoreline Amphitheatre, and a new U2 studio album, "Carnaval de Luz," described as the band's first since 2017.
On the road: Ultimate Classic Rock reported this week that Lynyrd Skynyrd has added roughly ten more shows to its 2027 calendar, including a run of European dates, with more announcements expected. None of the 2027 dates listed so far are in Georgia, but the band is close by tonight, playing a festival in Port Charlotte, Florida.
From the radio side of the dial, here's one that made us smile. Radio Online reports that Garth Brooks' company has agreed to buy Nashville's WRLT-FM, 100.1, for three million dollars, pending FCC approval. The plan is a country station called FM-100, covering the whole history of the genre. The station's longtime independent format, Lightning 100, is set to move to 106.3 once the sale closes. Also this week, Edison Research's Share of Ear data found AM/FM radio is still at its strongest in the car, which is exactly where we like to ride with you.
And a few reasons November 13th matters. Toy Caldwell of the Marshall Tucker Band was born on this day in 1947. Fifty years ago today, in 1976, Rod Stewart began an eight-week run at number one with "Tonight's the Night." In 1982, Men at Work's "Business as Usual" started fifteen weeks atop the album chart. And ten years ago today, we lost the great Leon Russell.
That's the news from where the music lives. Keep it right here on Pretoria Fields Radio.
— The Pretoria Fields Radio news desk
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