The Highwaymen

Before rock and roll & move gave listeners the Journeying Wilburys, country music spawned the Highwaymen, a supergroup of mythic proportions that featured living legends Johnny Money, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson. The foursome experienced worked together in a variety of combinations over time, but teamed up beneath the Highwaymen umbrella in 1985. Their 1st single collectively, “Highwayman,” topped the united states charts that yr and spawned an recording of the same name on Columbia. The recording also demonstrated mightily popular, striking number 1 on the united states listings and creating a Best 20 follow-up solitary inside a cover of Man Clark’s “Desperadoes Looking forward to a Teach.” Afterward, the users came back to their specific careers for a couple years, but reconvened in 1990 to record a sequel, Highwayman 2. It reached number 4 on the united states album graphs and spun from the small hit “Sterling silver Stallion,” but didn’t trigger quite exactly the same mix general as its forerunner. Another layoff adopted, so when the Highwaymen came back for any third outing in 1995, they inked a fresh cope with Liberty/Capitol. THE STREET Continues on Forever was made by Don Was, but demonstrated a distinct industrial disappointment, as well as the group didn’t record again ahead of Jennings’ loss of life in 2002. An archival assortment of concert recordings from the Highwaymen, Live: American Outlaws, premiered in 2016.