These guys were like the Avengers of music. Individually incredible musical legends that came together and became arguably the greatest band in history. Rest in peace, Mr. Jennings and Mr. Cash.
Just seeing Jonny and Waylon makes me sad to think that they are gone. George Jones once sang a song named "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes" well right there on that stage are four legends that no one will.
All of them are well known singer songwriters. It was interesting that they did not collaborate on a new piece, but covered the Guy Clark composition. That is a great tip of the hat to him.
These four men do not get near the amount of recognition that they deserve. They really should have their own "Mount Rushmore". God bless you, Willie and Kris. And Rest In Peace, Waylon and Johnny - you left us way too soon.
yeah, these guys will live forever through their music, sure i'd give a lot to be there but hell listening to it on a computer or phone is a whole lot better then nothing.
To me this song is like red river valley in the sense that a redone version was better than the original. The highwaymens version of this song is better than guy clarks and Michael Martin Murphys red river valley is better than all the rest. In my opinion of course
My Grandfather passed away 22 years ago now, and I still cry like a baby when I hear this song. I miss you , PawPaw. I promise to wait for the train, til it's my time to go. I love you.
I was originally planning to get some nice rolling stones songs but when I hit "the" in the search and "the Highwaymen" appeared from a previous search I decided to change my plans
I loved the studio version of this song, but watching a live performance of the four of them is even better. I'm almost moved to tears listening to older versions of Kris, Waylon, Willie and Johnny singing about their aged mentor. The lyrics are great, but it's their voices that really make it work.
@@Jordyw1337 well he is getting old. He's a much better singer here and in almost every video I've ever heard him in than Willie and Willie seems to have gotten way more attention.
WOW! This is special! I'm so glad I found it. These 4 guys have given us hundreds of years of great music. It's so sad that we no longer have the entire group with us. Kris & Willie, carry on this legend.
+LaQuita Haynes I still remember the review of this album in Playboy when it came out, it contained the greatest line from an album review ever: "if Mount Rushmore could sing, this is what it would sound like."
Had to come here and listen to this one. Keep the tears aside almost. These guys always sound good singing this great song, like it was always meant to be.
True but there music will never die, there’s a line “too me he’s 1 of the heroes of my country “ to me it’s about my dad he flew hc3 chopper for a year in Vietnam and came home like he’d been at boyscout camp, what a man , what a influence on my life
Vi capita mai che la nostalgia Vi assale e, la dolce calda mano della malinconia, vi accarezza dolcemente le spalle, e un brivido corre per tutta la pelle???? Certi giorni non torneranno mai, mai!!!
I always knew of them. Now at 35, I'm appreciating it. I'm sorry it took me this long. If nothing else, I'm now a kristofferson fan...it will all live on. It's too good not to be appreciated by anyone who loves well written music with legendary voices.
Kris is highly under rated. An amazing singer and song writer. Check out his version of perhaps the most famous song he's ever written... Me and Bobby McGee (made famous by his friend Janis Joplin )
Today's country singers would turn out so much better if they just looked up to country singers like the highwaymen,instead they just go with the same friggin material. (Girls,drinking beer,partying,hunting,fishing,trucks,etc).
Chill Dude rhinestone suits and new flashy cars...I don't think Hank done it that way. I question if some of these new 'country' musicians have even listened to real country, outlaw country, and legends like these.
The day the last of the Legends we all watched as children dies will be the last of good old country music as we know it. as painful as that is, the next generation will craft their own legends. Willie, Waylon, Chris and Jonny will go down in history along with a few others. for their hard work and dedication to country music, Just as Elvis did with rock and role, and Ray did with Jazz. there will always be legends whos sound will live for ever. But each generation will craft their own new styles and follow their own choices. personally I would love to head up a tribute / cover group. I can sing like the HW-men, but Unfortunately I''m no guitar player. maybe I can just get a backing group ? I often say cover groups are never a scratch on the originals, especially legends like these guys. But soon its all we will have, Tribute acts and old MP3 copies, or we could get up to date and listen to modern music, I dont know any. I stopped listening to new stuff when the Spice girls started. "If you wanna be my" OFF SWITCH !!!! Part of the problem with the new generation of country singers is its hard to pitcher them facing the same stuff as the old ones. the wild west has tamed allot. if you take the boy named sue song, That would have been delt with in court and daddy would have been paying child care. the empty open planes are now crushed by tourists. listen to the voice over in the last cowboy song. hard to feel that much feeling and depth from some young lad or lass after they tweet about the weather and put a pitcher of their cat on facebook. their long travels of a few days by horseback are now about 3 hours in the comfort of a new car with air con. I don't mean to put these new guys down in any way. Just point out that they lead very different lives to their fathers and grandfathers. to point out that the hardships that Willie and co saw growing up will be very different to what our next gen kids are seeing. one last mention to Dan, I mean Elwood Blues. on one of the "Everybody" recordings he says that soon we will only be able to find good music in the CD collections of old libraries and we should just enjoy it while we still can. one day all these songs may fade into the darkness of the past. but while I still breath, I will still be playing them.
Why would anyone stop listening to them? There is no reason to stop listening to them, I will listen to them forever and ever, the most beautiful songs ever sung by the most beautiful voices, and the most beautiful person ❤️🦅 Waylon Jennings ❤️🦅
Four incomparable greats with an accompaniment of fine musicians to back 'em up. Super! \m/ This performance uplifted me higher than the clouds without having to fly.
Hey! This four gentle old men are still on top . Their combinations is still one of the best in country music. Perhaps ,we shall have another , who performs like this
They are not a band they where the greats from rebel rock and country Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson All had there own groups Call it a duet if you want
There was this old man who I used to help on his ranch. He was a teacher for 36 years and did labor in the summers. He was even an actor. I started working with him after my brother committed suicide. I would go over every day and help him with whatever he needed. If he to go somewhere, he took me with him. We went through many of the southern states buying and selling horses and cows. Our lives were like some old western movie. Over the years we became best friends. He was always there to listen and give advice for all my problems. I looked up to him. He passed away in July of this year of leukemia. I got to see him for the last time the day before he died. He was 73. Everytime I hear this song I think of my best friend.
Anyone still loves Highwaymen?
Me! Rented the whole Nassau Coliseum concert not long ago.
Damn right love them
Anyone that don't love 'em is a heretik
Love them...
Me. Daily.
And now there’s only Willie.
R.I.P. Kris…and Waylon…and Johnny. You guys are icons.
(Stay healthy Willie)
Only the Highwayman remains.
Well said my friend
also RIP Guy Clark. And Townes too...
Willie, Ozzy, Snoop, guys who are so medicated they can't die.
These guys were like the Avengers of music. Individually incredible musical legends that came together and became arguably the greatest band in history.
Rest in peace, Mr. Jennings and Mr. Cash.
The original Super Band!
Respect from holland
I totally agree...there will never again be another 4 like them again
Just seeing Jonny and Waylon makes me sad to think that they are gone. George Jones once sang a song named "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes" well right there on that stage are four legends that no one will.
There will never again be 4 legends on 1 stage 😢
RIP Johnny and Waylon. We'll never hear beautiful voices like these again
The best there ever whrre
Probably not they were songs from the heart.
Amen
How could you not like Willie, Waylon, Johnny, and Kris?
You probably lost your brain somewhere!!!!!!
They are truly the Mount Rushmore of Country music
Amen
Seeing those guys on stage is like looking at a country Mt.Rushmore!
Good one.
Someone should actually go make Mt. Countrymore with these four adorning it.
One of the truest and well said things ever on RUclips. Or anywhere else! Well done!🎸
That's well said.
All of them are well known singer songwriters. It was interesting that they did not collaborate on a new piece, but covered the Guy Clark composition. That is a great tip of the hat to him.
Nothing will ever be better than The Highwaymen
Metallica. ONE 🤘🏻🤘🏻💙💙 Love from Sweden
These four men do not get near the amount of recognition that they deserve. They really should have their own "Mount Rushmore". God bless you, Willie and Kris. And Rest In Peace, Waylon and Johnny - you left us way too soon.
Kayte 0207 Johnny they be back again and again and again and again
Kayte 0207 highwaymen
hind sight is 20/20 we'd all pay a crazy amount to just stop time and be in that front row.....rest in peace Waylon and Johnny
L beck their are never dead in are hearts they carry on with music
yeah, these guys will live forever through their music, sure i'd give a lot to be there but hell listening to it on a computer or phone is a whole lot better then nothing.
I would give anything to go back in time and see them in concert together.
@@PipelineWifey I with my late husband Brian and daughter Suzanne see Johnny cash in the 70s at the nac stadium b,am it were great happy memories x
I remember watching this with my dad in 1993 . Unfortunately my dad is no longer with us but these guys put me at that happy place ❤️
Guy Clark has to be one of the best songwriters of all time.
Is the best
Can you imagine a song writing session with the likes of Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt and Billy Joe Shaver. Wow what crazy fun that must have been
Heard they called Guy the 5th highwayman
I miss my best pal ... Paul James Clayton b.1949 d.2021... I was his Sidekick... by nearly 30yrs..
Proper Desperado Outlaw Shit ! ALWAYS. R.I.P
20 years ago Waylon Jennings died. He past to early❤️ Rest In Peace. From a fan in Norway
The Mandolin in this song is just beautiful .
Robby Turner!!
👍🏻 yap 10000000%
I love country music. The highwaymen are in a class of their own. The harmony between willie johnny waylon and chris is untouchable.😊
The only"boy band" I will listen to
I think it should be Man band
@@win1837 nope. God band
Ever listened to The traveling Wilburys now that’s one of the only boy bands I’ll listen to
@@simonmeredith2934 yeah. I like them.
To me this song is like red river valley in the sense that a redone version was better than the original. The highwaymens version of this song is better than guy clarks and Michael Martin Murphys red river valley is better than all the rest. In my opinion of course
Waylon's voice is incomparable! Just magnificent.
My Grandfather passed away 22 years ago now, and I still cry like a baby when I hear this song. I miss you , PawPaw. I promise to wait for the train, til it's my time to go. I love you.
It's the same way with me .
I am 15 years old, and even today, 2020, I continue to listen to it.
Respect from holland
That's because their music is timeless young man. I'm almost 74 and I love their music also.
Man, I would've killed to be at the crowd.
Me too !!!!!!
Bye Kris. You were the song writer who touched my life when I needed it most.
I think there's a little desperados in all us old men
Aye
This 70 Yr old ( from Ireland) agrees
One of the best Guy Clark songs - simply one of the best songwriters America has produced.
Don’t forget Kris
I do believe "Desperados ..." was written by Jerry Jeff Walker.
@@michaeloneill1763 written by Clark, first recorded by JJW
@@michaeloneill1763it is a standard written by Clark.
They have so much respect for each other.. so nice! Love all of them xxxx ⭐⭐⭐⭐🏴
Those four men will always be something to look up to.
Real MEN.
Damn right my friend!
amen
Willie: "I was just a kid, they called me sidekick."
Me: In tears...
I love the way it sounds when they all sing at the same time
The world isn't the same without Johnny and Waylon.
And Kris... 😢
I was originally planning to get some nice rolling stones songs but when I hit "the" in the search and "the Highwaymen" appeared from a previous search I decided to change my plans
Just did the same in 2020, was listening, reading through the comments thought id give you a bump if you havent listen to it in a while :)
Lucky you!
Same. I was watching Glenn Campbell..3 hours later still watching The Highwaymen 😊😍
I loved the studio version of this song, but watching a live performance of the four of them is even better. I'm almost moved to tears listening to older versions of Kris, Waylon, Willie and Johnny singing about their aged mentor. The lyrics are great, but it's their voices that really make it work.
They’re all great, but Willie’s verse is why this version is unparalleled
But Jesus Johnny’s too! They compliment each other so well
...and Waylon's voice is magnificent!!!!!! Together the four of them created the best version of this song, EVER! RIP Guy Clark, Waylon, John R
Page Ribe Waylon’s baritone is better than Elvis!
Waylon's gets to me the hardest but all amazing
@@pageribe9412 Guy Clarke gives it that edge!
This is real country.
They should be on Mount Rushmore
Don't give up hope Bro, sometimes shit happens !!!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are so right!!!!! God bless them!!!!!
IMO, Kris never got the kudos that his partners did. He wrote so many great songs and his original version of most are the BEST.
shit the hell total sexy... where the are these guys ? the lyrics are legend, the voices, my GOD! I am done with music, THis has ruined me
Great writer, but tbh not the best singer. I saw him last year in Amsterdam.
@@Jordyw1337 well he is getting old. He's a much better singer here and in almost every video I've ever heard him in than Willie and Willie seems to have gotten way more attention.
He's a damn great song writer and he should definitely get the kudos
KK is a genius.
I love this and I'm 32 these 4 men are incredible
RIP Guy Clark ... the writer of this amazing song.
WOW! This is special! I'm so glad I found it. These 4 guys have given us hundreds of years of great music. It's so sad that we no longer have the entire group with us. Kris & Willie, carry on this legend.
+LaQuita Haynes I still remember the review of this album in Playboy when it came out, it contained the greatest line from an album review ever: "if Mount Rushmore could sing, this is what it would sound like."
Major Frost
Thanks. I'd almost forgotten that review. I remember it now tho.
LaQuita Haynes amen these guys are amazing God bless willow and kris rip Johnny and Waylon
115 years together being on the road. When they first got together '85
They were the best. I will listen to their music till I die!
this song never fails to bring a tear outta me
All good songwriters, but they still made this Guy Clark song their own. RIP Guy, you left your mark!
Who still listens in 2024
I've never stopped listening these are the GOAT may 2024!!!!!!!
Right here
I do!
Me!! Love them!!! ♥️
I used to listen to them with my dad.
Miss those times. 😢
The same people who have listened and enjoyed the music... try putting that question on an Elvis song
Had to come here and listen to this one. Keep the tears aside almost. These guys always sound good singing this great song, like it was always meant to be.
It goes with the territory of this song. By the time Cash finishes it out you feel you have lived that tale well.
Music At the best. Legends of music never die and I'm glad to hear them sing Sheryl Ann Reagan
True but there music will never die, there’s a line “too me he’s 1 of the heroes of my country “ to me it’s about my dad he flew hc3 chopper for a year in Vietnam and came home like he’d been at boyscout camp, what a man , what a influence on my life
This song is special. I never tire of hearing these lyrics. Thanks guys always.
Vi capita mai che la nostalgia Vi assale e, la dolce calda mano della malinconia, vi accarezza dolcemente le spalle, e un brivido corre per tutta la pelle???? Certi giorni non torneranno mai, mai!!!
Guy Clark, such a gifted soul, his mark left with us... indelible.
This should have way more views than it does.. Put this in the recommended section youtube so more people can experience this masterpiece.
They are forever the best.
In the realm of American popular music, this is holy. Guy Clark wrote it.
I think thay are my heroes for ever my. Dad loved listening my son too. They. Were real . Thanks guys
Heard this as a boy years ago, and still use this. Great song. Young people need a listen.
I always knew of them. Now at 35, I'm appreciating it. I'm sorry it took me this long. If nothing else, I'm now a kristofferson fan...it will all live on. It's too good not to be appreciated by anyone who loves well written music with legendary voices.
Kris is highly under rated. An amazing singer and song writer. Check out his version of perhaps the most famous song he's ever written... Me and Bobby McGee (made famous by his friend Janis Joplin )
Allways the best. All this wonderful singen. Greetings from germany, Roger
So sad to see these country music legends pass away
These 4 dominated the 70s as far as country music goes, and did very well after
Love them all but Waylon to me was the coolest country star ever he was just the man.
Derrick Murphy, I totally agree with you!!
Outlaw Shit....
Waylon was and always will be the greatest.
kristoffer and Johnny truly some of the greatest musicians ever
Waylon too m8
And Willie isn't bad either !!!
All great. Four legends. Glad to see some Kris fans, though. He doesn't get as much credit as the others for some reason.
How can you not like this song by legends?
Respect from Finland.
RIP Guy Clark, you will be with us when we sing your songs xo
How can you not? Still have this cassette, a cherished family heirloom.
Thinking of my dad, pushing 80.
Love you Dad.
Have loved these guys for years,but this is my favorite Highwaymen concert-simply outstanding!
Today's country singers would turn out so much better if they just looked up to country singers like the highwaymen,instead they just go with the same friggin material. (Girls,drinking beer,partying,hunting,fishing,trucks,etc).
Chill Dude ya
Chill Dude rhinestone suits and new flashy cars...I don't think Hank done it that way.
I question if some of these new 'country' musicians have even listened to real country, outlaw country, and legends like these.
The day the last of the Legends we all watched as children dies will be the last of good old country music as we know it. as painful as that is, the next generation will craft their own legends.
Willie, Waylon, Chris and Jonny will go down in history along with a few others. for their hard work and dedication to country music, Just as Elvis did with rock and role, and Ray did with Jazz. there will always be legends whos sound will live for ever.
But each generation will craft their own new styles and follow their own choices.
personally I would love to head up a tribute / cover group. I can sing like the HW-men, but Unfortunately I''m no guitar player. maybe I can just get a backing group ?
I often say cover groups are never a scratch on the originals, especially legends like these guys. But soon its all we will have, Tribute acts and old MP3 copies,
or we could get up to date and listen to modern music, I dont know any. I stopped listening to new stuff when the Spice girls started.
"If you wanna be my" OFF SWITCH !!!!
Part of the problem with the new generation of country singers is its hard to pitcher them facing the same stuff as the old ones. the wild west has tamed allot. if you take the boy named sue song, That would have been delt with in court and daddy would have been paying child care. the empty open planes are now crushed by tourists. listen to the voice over in the last cowboy song. hard to feel that much feeling and depth from some young lad or lass after they tweet about the weather and put a pitcher of their cat on facebook.
their long travels of a few days by horseback are now about 3 hours in the comfort of a new car with air con.
I don't mean to put these new guys down in any way. Just point out that they lead very different lives to their fathers and grandfathers. to point out that the hardships that Willie and co saw growing up will be very different to what our next gen kids are seeing.
one last mention to Dan, I mean Elwood Blues. on one of the "Everybody" recordings he says that soon we will only be able to find good music in the CD collections of old libraries and we should just enjoy it while we still can.
one day all these songs may fade into the darkness of the past. but while I still breath, I will still be playing them.
Doris day
How true, it will also be the day I draw my last breath.
The writer, Guy Clark, just died.
Texas has had a lot of top men.
Yes indeed. Kris, Waylon and Willie are all from Texas. /CD
Cant believe Guy is gone
Awesome song by true legends basically four of the greatest singers in country music history
25 years, and i'm thankful everyday i grew up with real music🙌
26, hopefully you figure out babylon aswell as did i.
Groupe de légende merci pour toute ces belle années
Why would anyone stop listening to them? There is no reason to stop listening to them, I will listen to them forever and ever, the most beautiful songs ever sung by the most beautiful voices, and the most beautiful person ❤️🦅 Waylon Jennings ❤️🦅
I just love to hear Guy Clark's songs being recognised for what they are. A Beautiful rendition.
I adore Guy Clark but this is one of the rare versions of one of his songs that I enjoy more than his own.
This is what you call a SUPERGROUP.
Great song straight from heart of America, Greetings from Finland!
what an amazing and emotional song!!! COUNTRY MUSIC!
Kris's little fist pump at the end. He knows how well they absolutely nailed this.
Four incomparable greats with an accompaniment of fine musicians to back 'em up. Super! \m/ This performance uplifted me higher than the clouds without having to fly.
Hey! This four gentle old men are still on top . Their combinations is still one of the best in country music. Perhaps ,we shall have another , who performs like this
Kris you and Willie have made this all possible! And the truth to life is what you both share and that special!!
I could listen to this song so many times. man it gets better every time
Country music will survive
Total Masterpiece..
4 country music kings! Simply the best
Essa companhia (família)é tão perfeita musicalmente que não se sabe a quem elogiar ,todos são perfeitos e incomparáveis
Definateley The greatest band in my books !
Cheers for uploading
I agree! If not best band, best super group!
Good, but not the best. If talking about all super groups, Traveling Wilburys
Timo Miettinen Just checked em out! Really good as well! Cheers for mentioning them
They are not a band they where the greats from rebel rock and country Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson All had there own groups Call it a duet if you want
These guys taught the traveling wilburys
How the hell does this have dislikes
It's not Cardi B's "WAP" played on a phone through bluetooth earbuds. Nah, seriously, no clue why.
Still Lovin and BLASTING the Highwaymen here in 2021. Rest In Peace Waylon Jennings! Rest In Peace Johnny Cash!! KEEPITFUCKINOUTLAWYALL
Sure do miss this group
I LOOVE the Highwaymen!
Wish I could see all of them singing together.....but.! Rest In Peace Jonny and Waylon. .
Perfection, just perfection.
R.I.P., Guy ... really fantastic cover!
god bless americas heart and souls.
The chorus gives me goosebumps
I can’t imagine the chills you’d get in the crowd if u were lucky enough to see this live
Wauw the live version is 1000x better than the original from the album. ❤❤
There was this old man who I used to help on his ranch. He was a teacher for 36 years and did labor in the summers. He was even an actor. I started working with him after my brother committed suicide. I would go over every day and help him with whatever he needed. If he to go somewhere, he took me with him. We went through many of the southern states buying and selling horses and cows. Our lives were like some old western movie. Over the years we became best friends. He was always there to listen and give advice for all my problems. I looked up to him. He passed away in July of this year of leukemia. I got to see him for the last time the day before he died. He was 73. Everytime I hear this song I think of my best friend.
Kris is great love his singing
REAL REAL MUSIC with MEANING