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12059 - THE HIGHWAYMEN - THE HIGHWAYMEN LIVE: AMERICAN OUTLAWS, DISC TWO (2016)

THE HIGHWAYMEN
''THE HIGHWAYMEN LIVE: AMERICAN OUTLAWS, DISC TWO''
MAY 20 2016
163:16
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DISC ONE RECORDED LIVE AT NASSAU COLISEUM, UNIONDALE, NEW YORK, MARCH 14, 1990
01 - Mystery Train 01:33 (Herman Parker Jr., Sam Phillips)
02 - Highwayman 02:54 (Jimmy Webb)
03 - Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys 02:27 (Ed Bruce, Patsy Bruce)
04 - Good Hearted Woman 02:52 (Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson)
05 - Trouble Man 02:58 (Waylon Jennings, Tony Joe White)
06 - Amanda 02:34 (Bob McDill)
07 - There Ain't No Good Chain Gang 03:19 (Hal Bynum, David Carroll Kirby)
08 - Ring of Fire 03:03 (June Carter Cash, Merle Kilgore)
09 - Folsom Prison Blues 03:39 (Johnny Cash)
10 - Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain 02:59 (Fred Rose)
11 - Sunday Morning Coming Down 05:33 (Kris Kristofferson)
12 - Help Me Make It Through the Night 04:24 (Kris Kristofferson)
13 - The Best of All Possible Worlds 03:47 (Kris Kristofferson)
14 - Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again) 05:14 (Kris Kristofferson)
15 - City of New Orleans 05:05 (Steve Goodman)
16 - Always on My Mind 02:50 (Wayne Carson, Johnny Christopher, Mark James)
17 - Me and Bobby McGee 04:58 (Fred Foster, Kris Kristofferson)
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DISC TWO RECORDED LIVE AT NASSAU COLISEUM, UNIONDALE, NEW YORK, MARCH 14, 1990
01 - Silver Stallion 03:18 (Lee Clayton)
02 - The Last Cowboy Song 03:00 (Ed Bruce, Ron Peterson)
03 - Two Stories Wide 02:22 (Willie Nelson)
04 - Living Legend 04:18 (Kris Kristofferson)
05 - The Pilgrim: Chapter 33 02:45 (Kris Kristofferson)
06 - They Killed Him 03:29 (Kris Kristofferson)
07 - I Still Miss Someone 05:04 (Johnny Cash, Roy Cash Jr.)
08 - Ragged Old Flag 02:38 (Johnny Cash)
09 - (Ghost) Riders in the Sky 03:18 (Stan Jones)
10 - Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way 02:32 (Waylon Jennings)
11 - Night Life 04:46 (Walt Breeland, Paul Buskirk, Willie Nelson)
12 - The King Is Gone (So Are You) 03:26 (Roger D. Ferris)
13 - Desperados Waiting for a Train 04:45 (Guy Clark)
14 - Big River 04:23 (Johnny Cash)
15 - A Boy Named Sue 04:22 (Shel Silverstein)
16 - Why Me 03:50 (Kris Kristofferson)
17 - Luckenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics Of Love) 03:19 (Bobby Emmons, Chips Moman)
18 - On the Road Again 03:38 (Willie Nelson)
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DISC THREE
TRACKS 01 TO 06 RECORDED LIVE AT FARM AID V, TEXAS STADIUM, IRVING, TEXAS, MARCH 14 1992
TRACKS 07 TO 10 RECORDED LIVE AT FARM AID VI, CYCLONE STADIUM, AMES, IOWA, APRIL 24, 1993
TRACK 11 FROM THE ALBUM HEROES BY JOHNNY CASH AND WAYLON JENNINGS, 1986
2014 VOCALS BY WILLIE NELSON AND KRIS KRISTOFFERSON PRODUCED BY MICKEY RAPHAEL, REMIXED BY TONY CASTLE
01 - Mystery Train 00:50 (Herman Parker Jr., Sam Phillips)
02 - Highwayman 03:00 (Jimmy Webb)
03 - The King Is Gone (So Are You) 02:55 (Roger D. Ferris)
04 - I've Always Been Crazy 03:45 (Waylon Jennings)
05 - The Best of All Possible Worlds 03:57 (Kris Kristofferson)
06 - City of New Orleans 04:53 (Steve Goodman)
07 - Folsom Prison Blues 03:51 (Johnny Cash)
08 - Intro; Highwayman 03:30 (Jimmy Webb)
09 - Shipwrecked in the Eighties 03:45 (Kris Kristofferson)
10 - Desperados Waiting for a Train 04:33 (Guy Clark)
11 - One Too Many Mornings 02:35 (Bob Dylan)
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Johnny Cash/Vocals, Guitar
Gene Chrisman/Drums
J.R. Cobb/Guitar
Bobby EmmonsKeyboards
Waylon Jennings/Vocals, Guitar
Kris Kristofferson/Vocals, Guitar
Mike Leech/Bass Guitar
Willie Nelson/Vocals, Guitar
Mickey Raphael/Harmonica
Danny Timms/Keyboards, Vocals
Robby Turner/Pedal Steel
Bobby Wood/Keyboards
Reggie Young/Guitar
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ABOUT THE ALBUM
www.prnewswire.com
Columbia/Legacy is proud to announce the upcoming release of The Highwaymen Live - American Outlaws, a deluxe new 3CD/1DVD (or 3CD/1 Blu-ray) box set of concert performances--including a previously unreleased complete concert on CD and DVD (or Blu-ray)--from country music's legendary first "supergroup," on Friday, May 20.

The Highwaymen Live - American Outlaws includes: a) two audio discs recorded live at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York, March 14, 1990; b) an audio disc with tracks recorded live at various Farm Aid Festivals and c) a previously unreleased full-length concert film recorded live at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York, March 14, 1990 and transferred from the original film reels especially for this collection.

As an added bonus, The Highwaymen Live - American Outlaws debuts a previously unreleased recording of "One Too Many Mornings," an alternate take of a Bob Dylan song which appeared on Heroes, a 1986 collaboration album by Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings. The track's new incarnation on The Highwaymen Live - American Outlaws includes vocals recorded by Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson in 2014, produced by longtime Willie Nelson colleague and band member Mickey Raphael and remixed by Tony Castle.

The Highwaymen Live - American Outlaws compilation is produced by Mickey Raphael from original recordings produced by Chips Moman. The box set includes a booklet featuring revelatory new liner notes penned by noted music scholar and journalist Mikal Gilmore.

Columbia/Legacy will also release a new single disc compilation, The Very Best of The Highwaymen.

"The Highwaymen: Live At Nassau Coliseum" (a special broadcast edit of the concert film featured on The Highwaymen Live - American Outlaws) is part of special programming premiering on PBS stations as part of June Pledge 2016 (check local listings).

Discover the story behind the pioneering outlaw country music supergroup that featured Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson, told through vintage performances and new interviews about life on the road and in the studio when "American Masters - The Highwaymen: Friends Till The End," a new feature-length documentary, premieres on Friday, May 27 at 9pm on PBS (check local listings).

The Highwaymen--Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson--were country music's first bonafide "supergroup," an epic quartet of blockbuster star power comprised of the four prime forces of America's outlaw country music revolution. An essential musical and cultural influence, the Highwaymen were active for the decade spanning 1985 to 1995, recorded three major label albums, charted hit singles (including their Number 1 debut, "Highwayman," which won the Best Country Song Grammy Award in 1986) and performed a variety of shows achieving mythic status for those lucky enough to have been there.

"There's the four of us standing there, grouped around microphones. The Highwaymen. John, Kris, Willie, and me. I don't think there are any other four people like us," wrote Waylon Jennings in Waylon: An Autobiography. "John says that we came together because we all have a life commitment to the music. We know the same songs, but we sing them from different perspectives. We can blend the early country of the Carter Family with Texas swing, southern gospel, and rockabilly, and each of us feels comfortable singing real slices of life. There's not one of us who hasn't come face to face with his own mortality, and many's the time we've gone through our struggles and survivals together....That's our friendship, unlocking any door that stands between us, and it keeps four very different individuals together."
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REVIEW/AMG
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson first performed as the Highwaymen in 1985, after which they became a going concern for the next decade. Hits didn't often arrive -- their 1985 debut reached the top of Billboard's Country Album charts and its title track achieved the same feat on the singles chart -- but they became a reliable concert attraction after the release of Highwayman 2 in 1990. The 2016 archival release of Live: American Outlaws is the first official document of this part of the supergroup's life, providing the first-ever CD release of the March 14, 1990 show recorded at Nassau Coliseum that was previously released on VHS in 1991 (the video portion has been remastered and released as a DVD in this set), along with a third CD featuring a six-song set from 1992's Farm Aid V, four songs from 1993's Farm Aid VI, and a spruced-up outtake of Bob Dylan's "One Too Many Mornings," where Nelson and Kristofferson added new vocal harmonies to a recording from Cash and Jennings' 1986 LP Heroes.

Although all three of the concerts here were events by some measure, the Farm Aid gigs were high-profile charity shows, while the Nassau gig was intended for home video release. Considering this, it's odd how none of the three live dates feel like major events. All are matter-of-fact performances, the four Highwaymen relying on some measure of seasoned chops and personal charm as they trade songs, or perhaps just lines, on a collection of greatest-hits and new tunes they're plugging. The latter served as an excuse to get the band out on the road and they fade into the woodwork here, overshadowed by a collection of tunes that amount to some of the greatest songs of the 20th century. None of the renditions here are anywhere close to definitive -- the Highwaymen wear their age on their sleeves a bit, plus the productions are slick and overblown in a manner standard to big-budget shows of the '80s and '90s -- but something that would've seemed as little more than an enjoyable night out in 1990 now seems like something modestly special. Hearing these four Titans interact on-stage, harmonizing and cracking wise, it's hard not to marvel at the fact that for a while, Jennings, Nelson, Cash, and Kristofferson actually roamed from town to town, singing their songs along the way. This is a simple document of that time that seems more momentous now that the era has passed.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Steve Huey
Before rock & roll gave listeners the Traveling Wilburys, country music spawned the Highwaymen, a supergroup of mythic proportions that featured living legends Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson. The foursome had worked together in various combinations over the years, but teamed up under the Highwaymen umbrella in 1985. Their first single together, "Highwayman," topped the country charts that year and spawned an album of the same name on Columbia. The album also proved mightily popular, hitting number one on the country listings and producing a Top 20 follow-up single in a cover of Guy Clark's "Desperadoes Waiting for a Train." Afterward, the members returned to their individual careers for a few years, but reconvened in 1990 to record a sequel, Highwayman 2. It reached number four on the country album charts and spun off the minor hit "Silver Stallion," but didn't cause quite the same stir overall as its predecessor. Another layoff followed, and when the Highwaymen returned for a third outing in 1995, they inked a new deal with Liberty/Capitol. The Road Goes on Forever was produced by Don Was, but proved a distinct commercial disappointment, and the group did not record again prior to Jennings' death in 2002. An archival collection of concert recordings by the Highwaymen, Live: American Outlaws, was released in 2016.
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