Highwayman

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The Highwaymen

Johnny Cash

Waylon Jennings

Kris Kristofferson

Willie Nelson

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Favorite Country Songs: 80's (85 items)
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Description: The myth of the American West--lawless lands, resolute heroes--takes on a grave, elegiac quality on this first, and best, collaboration from Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson. There's little bravado here, just a sense of ticking time, of frontiers lost, cowboys singing their last songs. In the end, Highwayman works because it fuses mythic, serious material with the artists' own legendary personas and well-aged voices. Lesser lights would be lucky to muddle through Jimmy Webb's epic title track; these four cagey desperados make every fantastic image believable. If Chips Moman surrounds them with ... (more)

Manufacturer: Sony
Release date: 25 October 1990
EAN: 0074644005622 UPC: 074644005622

Tags: Country (1), 1985 (1), Johnny Cash (1), Willie Nelson (1), Kris Kristofferson (1), Supergroup (1), Waylon Jennings (1), The Highwaymen (1)

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