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Highwayman" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb about a soul with incarnations in four different places in time and history: as a highwayman, a sailor, a construction worker on the Hoover Dam, and finally as a captain of a starship. Webb first recorded the song on his album El Mirage, released in May 1977
In 1990, the four members reunited for a second effort, titled Highwayman 2, which reached #4 on the country album chart. The Lee Clayton-penned song "Silver Stallion" was the first single and made the country Top 40. The album was nominated for a Grammy for Best Country Vocal Collaboration. Highwayman 2 was produced, once again, by Moman. Six ...
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.
[17] The album contains several strong compositions, including "The Highwayman", which would later become a number one country hit for Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson, who named their super group The Highwaymen after the song. Their version of "The Highwayman" won a Grammy Award for Best Country Song. [17]
"Highwayman" "If You See Me Getting Smaller" "Mixed Up Guy" "Christiaan No" "Moment in a Shadow" "Sugarbird" "Where the Universes Are" "PF Sloan" "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress" "Skylark (A Meditation)" Atlantic Records: 1977: Glen Campbell: Southern Nights "This is Sarah's Song" "Early Morning Song" Capitol Records 1977: Waylon Jennings: Ol' Waylon
A hanged highwayman and gang leader who suffered the press ordeal for not pleading. Philip Twysden: 1714–1752 United Kingdom: The Bishop of Raphoe. Richard 'Dick' Turpin: 1705-1739 United Kingdom: He was also known by his alias 'John Palmer'. Márton Vidróczki: Hungary: James Whitney: 1660-1693 United Kingdom: Known by contemporaries as the ...
Among the folk songs Fisher arranged for The Highwaymen was an African-American spiritual or work song "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore", which had been rediscovered in an 1867 collection of slave songs by Boston songfinder and teacher Tony Saletan in 1954, [10] and released on LP in 1957 by both The Weavers [11] and Bob Gibson. [12]
He has charted 12 times on the American Billboard Hot Country Songs charts; his highest peaking singles there are "Why Me" and "Highwayman", which reached number one in 1973 and 1985, respectively. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2004 and received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014.