Highwaymen - The Road Goes on Forever (1995)

Posted By : ramith | Date : 05 Jan 2011 12:25:03 | Comments : 5 |

Highwaymen - The Road Goes on Forever (1995)
Country | EAC Rip | FLAC + CUE + LOG | Scans | 227.97 MB
Label ~ Capitol

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Don Was, the producer who transformed Bonnie Raitt from cult hero to pop star, tried to jump-start the stalled careers of Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings by producing their recent albums, Across the Borderline and Waymore's Blues (Part II), respectively. This resulted in two artistic triumphs but no hits. That didn't deter Nelson and Jennings from hiring Was to produce their album with Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson as the Highwaymen. The Road Goes on Forever is easily the best of the three Highwaymen albums, even if changing radio tastes will probably doom it to the poorest sales of the three. The two earlier releases, 1985's Highwaymen and 1990's Highwaymen 2, were thrown together as if the sheer starpower of the four singers could carry the project. Both albums had their exciting moments when everything clicked but both also had a lot of filler.

By contrast, Was approached the new recording as if every song and every arrangement had to be good enough to be a single. He picked one obscure but terrific composition from each of the four singers and supplemented them with equally strong material from four of Texas's best songwriters--Steve Earle, Billy Joe Shaver, Stephen Bruton, and Robert Earl Keen Jr. Nelson's harmonica ace Mickey Raphael and Kristofferson's singing buddy Billy Swan are joined by top L.A. session pros like keyboardist Benmont Tench and drummer Kenny Aronoff to create a sound that has the twangy picking of old-fashioned country and the fat bottom of modern pop.

The result is an album with everything: first-rate material, grade-A playing, and inimitable singing. The thread that ties Nelson, Jennings, Cash, and Kristofferson together is the crustiness of their voices (a honey-voiced singer like George Jones or Don Gibson would seem out of place in this crowd); when they sing Shaver's "(I'm Going To) Live Forever," they sound as if they're more than halfway there. The Highwaymen are so naturally hard-bitten and world-weary that they can slip a little sentiment into a song without spoiling it. They use this to great advantage on the album's two great outlaw songs, Earle's "The Devil's Right Hand" and Keen's title tune; the gruff tales of violence lead up to a sobering admission of the price paid for such a life. That same gruffness allows the Highwaymen to sing two religious meditations, Jennings's "I Do Believe" and Cash's "Death and Hell," without once sounding sanctimonious.

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Tracklist
01 - The Devil's Right Hand
02 - Live Forever
03 - Everyone Gets Crazy
04 - It Is What It Is
05 - I Do Believe
06 - The End of Understanding
07 - True Love Travels a Gravel Road
08 - Death and Hell
09 - Waiting for a Long Time
10 - Here Comes That Rainbow Again
11 - The Road Goes On Forever

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Posted By: mandrix Date: 05 Jan 2011 15:36:45

Thanks! Much appreciated.

Posted By: Tuckertje Date: 05 Jan 2011 16:21:51

Thanks from Holland

Posted By: Balleklorin Date: 08 Jan 2011 23:36:38

Thanks. More Highwaymen would be nice.

Posted By: cooldesign Date: 14 Jan 2011 19:55:46

Thanks for this nice sound post.

Greetings from Holland

Posted By: wuuhuu Date: 08 Jun 2011 02:06:25

thank you for this, especially for "That Rainbow"!

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