The Highwomen rework The Highwaymen’s namesake monitor as “Highwomen”: Stream
Nation supergroup The Highwomen took their title as an homage to the enduring outlaw nation collaboration The Highwaymen, made up of Johnny Money, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Willie Nelson. It was solely to be anticipated, then, that Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby, Maren Morris and Amanda Shires would rework that group’s signature namesake monitor. After debuting the track again at Newport People Pageant, the quartet have now shared the studio model of “Highwomen”.
Similar to within the unique, members of The Highwomen tackle totally different personas, each countering the “archetypal” expectations of a lady. Carlile sings a couple of Honduran refugee, Shires takes the angle of a sufferer of the Salem witch trials, and Hemby embodies a preacher prosecuted for her gender. Yola takes on honorary fifth Highwoman standing along with her visitor verse as a civil rights freedom rider.
(Look: Newport People Pageant 2019 Photograph Gallery: Dolly Parton, Kermit the Frog, The Highwomen)
The Highwomen add one other twist to what The Highwaymen lay down earlier than them, all their voices becoming a member of collectively for a strong closing verse:
“We’re The Highwomen, singing tales nonetheless untold/ We supply the sons, you possibly can solely maintain/ We’re the daughters of the silent generations/ You despatched our hearts to die alone in international nations/ It might return to us as tiny drops of rain/ However we are going to nonetheless stay.”
Talking with Zane Lowe on Beats 1, Carlile touched on engaged on the remake with unique “Highwaymen” songwriter Jimmy Webb. “We requested him if he needed to contribute to the rewrite. We informed him what the idea of the motion and the band was,” she recalled. “And he wrote us again, and stated that he felt it was spot-on, and we have been complimented by that to no finish.”
Take a hearken to “Highwomen” beneath.
The Highwomen’s self-titled debut album is out September sixth by way of Low Nation Sound/Elektra Information. Earlier singles “Redesigning Ladies” and “Crowded Desk” can be featured on the LP, however their cowl of Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” received’t. That track was recorded completely for the soundtrack to The Kitchen.
Beneath, watch The Highwomen carry out their namesake track with some further assist from Sheryl Crow throughout Newport People’s already legendary ♀♀♀♀: The Collaboration set.