I can’t write an introduction to today’s Random SOTD that’s as succinct and effective as this one from Genius.com:

“Ever write a song so great that the four greatest Outlaw Country singers of all time named their supergroup after it? No? Well, that’s because you’re not Jimmy Webb.”

Indeed, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson teamed up for three albums between the mid 80s and mid 90s as The Highwaymen, with this song as their inspiration.

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