If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

She then released her next album That's the Way a Cowboy Rocks and Rolls the following year. Also in 1981 Colter released her final studio album on Capitol records Ridin' Shotgun which also spawned Colter's last charting single on the country charts "Holdin' on. Her success began to decline through the remainder of the decade with her final two albums of the decade not producing any Top 40 country hits.

In 1976 Jessi Colter was featured on the collaboration LP Wanted: The Outlaws which became an RIAA-certified Platinum album and helped her become one of the few female outlaw country stars. Jessi Colter (born Miriam Johnson May 25 1943) is an American country music artist who is best known for her collaboration with her husband country singer and songwriter Waylon Jennings and for her 1975 country-pop crossover hit "I'm Not Lisa". Jessi Colter was one of the few female artists to emerge from the mid-'70s "outlaw" movement.