“THEY SAID THE HIGHWAYMEN WERE DONE — FOUR LEGENDS FROM ANOTHER ERA, REFUSING TO LET GO. By the late 1980s, when Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson joined forces, many people in the music industry refused to take the idea seriously. Four aging outlaws, they called them. Four voices the world had supposedly heard enough from. The first reactions were brutal. Radio stations were cautious. Critics brushed it off as nostalgia pretending to be relevance. Some even dismissed The Highwaymen as “a reunion nobody asked for.” Then came the night all four men walked onto the stage together.”
Introduction “They Said They Were Done” — The Night The Highwaymen Proved Everyone Wrong By the late 1980s, when Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson joined forces,…