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In 1985, the song became the inspiration for the naming of the supergroup the Highwaymen, which featured Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson. Their first album, Highwayman , became a number one platinum-selling album, and their version of the song went to number one on the Hot Country Songs Billboard chart in a ...
The Highwaymen was an American country music supergroup, composed of four of country music's biggest artists who pioneered the outlaw country subgenre: Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson.
The Highwaymen was an American 1960s "collegiate folk" group. The quintet's version of " Michael, Row the Boat Ashore ", a 19th Century African-American work song , released in 1959 under the title "Michael," was a Billboard #1 hit in September 1961.
The album was re-released on November 8, 2005, on Capitol Nashville/EMI with bonus tracks and, in some versions, an extra DVD for the album's 10th anniversary. The DVD includes a music video for "It Is What It Is", as well as a short documentary entitled Live Forever - In the Studio with the Highwaymen.
Highwayman, consisting of ten tracks, was released as a follow-up to the successful single of the same name and the title track of the album itself."Highwayman", a Jimmy Webb cover, hit the top of the country charts and was followed up by the Top 20 hit "Desperados Waiting for a Train", whose original version was released by Guy Clark.
"American Remains" is a song written by Rivers Rutherford and originally recorded by the Highwaymen (Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Willie Nelson) [1] for their 1990 album Highwayman 2.
Highwayman 2 is the second studio album released by American country supergroup The Highwaymen.This album was released in 1990 on the Columbia Records label. Johnny Cash had left Columbia several years earlier, making this a "homecoming", and ultimately his final work for Columbia as the next Highwaymen album would be issued on another label.
The poem, set in 18th-century rural England, tells the story of an unnamed highwayman who is in love with Bess, a landlord's daughter. Betrayed to the authorities by Tim, a jealous ostler, the highwayman escapes ambush when Bess sacrifices her life to warn him.