The Highwaymen were a country supergroup consisting of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Here they are performing Highwayman in 1990
The Highwaymen were a country supergroup consisting of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Here they are performing Highwayman in 1990 from OldSchoolCool
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The only supergroup that matters
I used to sing this to my children, every night.
Good lord, this is so so good. Thanks for the reminder.
These guys are pretty good.
I’m predicting that they’ll make something of themselves.
*You heard it here first!*
I love this song.. there’s a lot of talent on that stage.
The bastards hung me in the spring of ’25 but I am still alive
I love this song
The thing that amazes me about those guys in this performance is their poise, confidence and vocal perfection in the presence of that immense talent. It seems a different thing when you’re the only stud in the room, but all four of them just stood up and slayed.
Johnny cash coming in with “I fly a starship” goosebumps
Glorious. On a side note, I’m 90% sure Kristofferson is the only 1 of them who actually knows all the chords to this song.
All that in 3 minutes with time to spare.
So much talent and charisma!
Never skip this song when it comes on in GTA. So beautiful.
Used to listen to this song when I played Elite dangerous.
Then again when I played Red dead online.
It’s funny how it plays across genres like that.
Just always something different about Cash.
Kris Kristofferson… shit! That dude had a one in a million look.
“Many a maiden lost her baubles to my trade” is a criminally underrated lyric in the annals of recorded music!
A couple of years ago, I was solo road tripping from Houston to Angel Fire, NM and I carcamped a night at the Waylon Jennings Free RV Park in Littlefield, TX (his hometown). I woke up at dawn to get back on the road and popped on this song for the hell of it. I pulled onto the highway and Waylon’s verse came on as the sun was rising in my rear view mirror. I did not expect my face to start leaking so much and thought I might crash my car lol. Luckily it’s desolate as shit out there with nothing to hit.
It seems just like yesterday.
How have I never heard this awesome fucking song.
Let’s not forget that this group of country singers have tracks protesting the racist treatment of Mexican migrants and sing about welfare on this amazing album. What the hell happened to country music?
That song never fails to give me chills.
Absolutely love it.
If you fancy an alternate version, Highwomen by Highwomen is awesome too.
That last deep “again”-gotta be Johnny. So gooood
Dam Builder — best part
THIS is what GOOD country music sounds like. Not your trucks and fishin’ and GOD AND FUCKING TRACTORS. >:(
Waylon always stood out to me, even among his legendary peers. Gone way too soon.
My granddaughter was just about 9 months to a year old (can’t remembered exactly) and she would sit on Papaw’s lap, watch Johnny Cash and never move one single muscle. Every single time she watched him she would never move 1 muscle.
This is why I love Reddit. I never would have known about this band, song and performance. Thanks op
Listened to this so much over the years, I could probably sing every song on the record from memory. I always knew I would play “Jim, I Wore a Tie Today” at Dad’s funeral, but then he died suddenly and I had neither a tie nor the ability to do a proper funeral in March of 2020. Still was able to play the song one more time with him before he reached the other side.
I knew a guy who was a roadie with this tour. Jose Cuervo sponsored and sent cases of booze on the buses. This particular group of guys had an essential role in keeping the show looking and sounding good as it played. The guys broke into the cases and got mucho drunk and fucked up one of the first shows. The following day Willie Nelson hopped on that bus and ripped the crew a new one. Little do people know Willie was a fit guy who liked to run. So they’re taking a tongue-lashing from Willie in a tracksuit, and all of them are like, “boy did we mess up.” A few minutes later, Willie came back. Now Willie was a nice guy, and he said he was sorry and don’t do that again. He throws this backpack down, and it has two one-gallon ziplocs full of weed. Willie’s exact words were, “you stay away from that Jose Cuervo shit and smoke this… We’ll be on the same wavelength.” The guys followed Willie’s request.