That's the Way a Cowboy Rocks and Rolls is the fifth studio album by American country artist Jessi Colter.

[2] The album was released in November 1978 on Capitol Records and was produced by Richie Albright and Waylon Jennings.

[3] That's the Way a Cowboy Rocks and Rolls contained ten tracks of entirely new material.

The album's first single, "Maybe You Should've Been Listening," only reached a peak of #45 on the Hot Country Songs chart in 1978, and the album's second single, "Love Me Back Sleep" peaked even lower on the chart in 1979.

Recorded at Jack Clements's Caribou Ranch American studio in Nederland, Colorado, United States.