What's cooler than Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson (collectively known as "The Highwaymen") singing together? How about them singing "Highwayman", a Jimmy Webb song that is: 1) a literal account of reincarnation, 2) an objectivist paean to heroic individualism, or 3) an example of Nietzschean eternal recurrence. Take your pick, but it's a cool song.It is a single of the 1985 debut LP "Highwayman". Cash, Jennings, Nelson & Kristofferson are four of the main figures in "Outlaw Country", which is a lot more fun than the lifeless, corporate- & RNC-approved pablum that currently passes for country.
Link: YouTube (live 1993)
Bonus Links #1, studio version: last.fm, YouTube (cheesy video alert!).
Bonus Links #2, Jimmy Webb version: last.fm, YouTube.
Bonus Link #3, Glen Campell: live 1992.
(Thanks to Joy for the updated links: 2015-03-07)
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