It was during that get-together that Marty Stuart, himself a country legend, reminded the quartet about the song “Highwayman.” Jimmy Webb had written it in the ’70s, and up to that point it ...

On Tuesday, the female country quartet released "Highwomen," a rework of Cash and co.'s signature song, "Highwayman." As on the original, Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby, Maren Morris and Amanda ...

Written by Webb in the mid-seventies, “Highwayman” was one of those songs that had been bouncing around Nashville for almost ten years before it finally landed with the artists who would make ...

they harmonize. Songwriter Jimmy Webb wrote the original “Highwayman” in the 1970s. His frequent collaborator, Glen Campbell, recorded the song as the title track of his 1979 album ...

rewriting “Highwayman,” the 1985 theme song of Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson’s all-star band. But Carlile and Shires not only received the blessing of ...

He kept telling me about a song called ‘The Highwayman’ that Jimmy Webb had done—had written that Glen Campbell had recorded. My cousin Marty Gamblin ran Glen Campbell’s publishing company.

During their live debut on Friday (July 26) at the 2019 Newport Folk Festival, the Highwomen played the entirety of their self-titled debut album, out Sept. 6. The opening salvo of the album and ...

and Kris Kristofferson landed on their most poignant song. While Jimmy Webb’s “Highwayman” may have been the foursome’s signature, Clark’s “Desperados,” released on their 1985 debut ...