Backed by equally legendary sidemen like pedal-steel guitarist Robby Turner (who currently tours with Chris Stapleton), guitarist Reggie Young (whose playing can be heard on Dusty Springfield’s “Son of a Preacher Man” and J.J. The performance shows all four frontmen sharing the spotlight, lined up against the lip of the stage with guitars across their chests and smiles splashed across their faces. RS Recommends: 5 Devices You Need to Set Up Your Smart Homeīoth the American Masters program and the Columbia/Legacy DVD (also available on Blu-Ray) include rare footage from a Highwaymen show in March 1990, while the guys were touring though Uniondale, New York, in support of their second album.
The live box set hits stores May 20th, while the documentary premieres a week later on May 27th. That changes this May, when PBS premieres a new installment of its American Masters documentary series, The Highwaymen: Friends Till the End, and Legacy teams up with Columbia Records to release a four-disc CD/DVD package, The Highwaymen Live – American Outlaws. The group released three albums along the way, but their video output was a bit more spotty, with a bizarre, made-for-TV version of John Wayne’s Stagecoach - featuring all four bandmates in major roles, including Nelson as a somewhat stoned Doc Holliday - bringing them together for the longest time onscreen. The Highwaymen’s trip started in 1985 and wrapped up one decade later. The result was something rarely seen during the early days of country music’s climb into the mainstream: a group of elder statesmen who could still top the charts, speeding past the younger acts of the genre. Cash was part of that lineup too, teaming up with his old roommate Waylon Jennings and Texas titans Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. Check out an exclusive clip below (U.S.Nearly 30 years after Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash all swapped gospel harmonies during the “Million Dollar Quartet” jam at Sun Studio in 1956, a different sort of supergroup - the Highwaymen - released their first album.American Masters – The Highwaymen: Friends Till the End premieres on May 27 at 9 p.m.The doc also features archival interviews, performances and behind-the-scenes footage shot on the road and in the studio with producer Don Was, as well as interviews with Nelson, Jennings’ wife Jessi Colter, band members Reggie Young, Mickey Raphael and Robby Turner, managers Mark Rothbaum and Lou Robin, and musicians John Mellencamp, Ray Benson and Toby Keith. In this exclusive clip shared with realscreen, Kristofferson and Cash’s son John Carter Cash discuss the role of spirituality in each of the members’ lives as well as the recording of “Everyone Gets Crazy,” off the group’s 1995 album The Road Goes On Forever. Produced by Brown, Sony Music Entertainment and THIRTEEN, the doc explores how country legends Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson came together, formed a band and recorded three albums that set the standard for the outlaw country genre. On Friday (May 27), the PBS biography strand will air director Jim Brown’s The Highwaymen: Friends till The End as part of its 30 th anniversary season. ‘American Masters’ is revisiting the career of country music supergroup The Highwaymen to coincide with the release of a new box-set of rare live performances.
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