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The Highwaymen was an American country music supergroup, composed of four of country music's biggest artists who pioneered the outlaw country subgenre: Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson.
The Highwaymen was an American 1960s "collegiate folk" group. The quintet's version of " Michael, Row the Boat Ashore ", a 19th Century African-American work song , released in 1959 under the title "Michael," was a Billboard #1 hit in September 1961.
David Ashworth Gates (born December 11, 1940) [1] is a retired American singer-songwriter, guitarist, musician and producer, frontman and co-lead singer (with Jimmy Griffin) of the group Bread, which reached the top of the musical charts in Europe and North America on several occasions in the 1970s.
Highwayman, consisting of ten tracks, was released as a follow-up to the successful single of the same name and the title track of the album itself."Highwayman", a Jimmy Webb cover, hit the top of the country charts and was followed up by the Top 20 hit "Desperados Waiting for a Train", whose original version was released by Guy Clark.
Highwayman" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb about a soul with incarnations in four different places in time and history: as a highwayman, a sailor, a construction worker on the Hoover Dam, and finally as a captain of a starship. Webb first recorded the song on his album El Mirage, released in May 1977.
David J (Haskins) first entered the public consciousness in 1978 as bassist and collaborative songwriter in Bauhaus, the influential gothic rock band from Northampton, England. When that band went ...
Gilbert Lee "Gil" Robbins (April 3, 1931 – April 5, 2011) was an American folk singer, folk musician and actor. Robbins was a former member of the folk band, The Highwaymen. [1] The New York Times described Robbins as a "fixture on the folk-music scene." [2] He was the father of actor and director Tim Robbins. [3] [4]
David Dee, an influential East St. Louis soul singer, guitarist and bandleader, has died.He was 84. Lesley Withers, a daughter of Dee, shared news of his death Wednesday. Dee’s music career ...