Four-time Emmy Award-winning producer/director Jim Brown explores how these men came together and shares the fruits of their historic collaboration on our screens. Nelson and Jennings created the country music sub-genre called the outlaw movement, in retaliation for overly controlled and highly produced material.įrom 1985 to 1995, the group recorded three albums, toured the world and acted in the movie Stagecoach (1986). The Grammy-winning Highwaymen included Willie Nelson, 83, Kris Kristofferson, 79, plus Waylon Jennings, who died in 2002 at 64, and Johnny Cash who died in 2001 at 71, both from complications of diabetes. You can stream it at pbs.org/americanmasters. It’s the series’ last premiere until fall. You may know them as “the Mount Rushmore of country music.” They still stand tall as monuments to music history: The Highwaymen.Įxplore the engaging documentary American Masters-The Highwaymen: Friends Till the End on PBS as part of the 30th anniversary season of Thirteen’s American Masters series.
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