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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.
[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]
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 of the songs were written or co-written by members of the group.
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.
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.
A singing highwayman appears in the fourth episode of the animated mini-series, Over the Garden Wall, Songs of the Dark Lantern. The highwayman known as Juraj Jánošík (1688–1713) became a hero of many folk legends in the Slovak, Czech, and Polish cultures by the 19th century [33] and hundreds of literary works about him have since been ...
"Highwayman", a song by Brotherhood of Man from Images The Highwayman , an operetta by Reginald De Koven and Harry B. Smith "The Highwayman", a song by Loreena McKennitt from The Book of Secrets , based on the Noyes poem (see above)
"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