New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Legacy Recordings) 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."
AUDIO DISC 1
Mystery Train
Highwayman
Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
Good Hearted Woman
Trouble Man
Amanda
There Ain't No Good Chain Gang
Ring Of Fire
Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
Sunday Morning Coming Down
Help Me Make It Through The Night
The Best Of All Possible Worlds
Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)
Always On My Mind
Me And
Bobby McGee
AUDIO DISC 2
Silver Stallion
The Last Cowboy Song
Two Stories Wide
Living Legend
The Pilgrim: Chapter 33
They Killed Him
I Still Miss Someone
Ragged Old Flag
(Ghost) Riders In The Sky
Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
Night Life
The King Is Gone (So Are You)
Desperados Waiting For A Train
Big River
A Boy Named Sue
Why Me
On The Road Again
AUDIO DISC 3
Mystery Train
Highwayman
The King Is Gone (So Are You)
I've Always Been Crazy
The Best Of All Possible Worlds
Intro/Highwayman
Shipwrecked In The Eighties
Desperados Waiting For A Train
One Too Many Mornings (Previously Unreleased)
Tracks 1-6 recorded live at Farm Aid V,
Texas Stadium, Irving, Texas, March 14, 1992
Tracks 7-10 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; original recording produced by Chips Moman; 2014 vocals by Willie
Nelson and Kris Kristofferson: produced by Mickey Raphael; remixed by Tony Castle
CONCERT FILM DISC 4
Recorded live at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York, March 14, 1990
Running time: approx. 2 hours 39 minutes
