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Highwayman: Four Voices, One Immortal Ballad

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This episode tells the full story of 'Highwayman' as a songwriting and performance experiment that stitched four historical personae into a single, looping consciousness. James delivers a sourced, song‑first monologue tracing Jimmy Webb’s writing seed through early folk circulation to the Highwaymen supergroup recording (Cash, Nelson, Kristofferson, Jennings). We close‑read the title and three pivotal stanzas to show how pronoun, tense, and line breaks create reincarnation rather than consecutive biography; explain who’s credited and how publishing and arrangement choices shaped the final master; and unpack how four distinct vocal timbres turn a literary conceit into a communal narrative. The episode includes a clear guided listening exercise that reveals where phrasing and harmony flip identification, practical takeaways for writers about chaining perspectives, and producer notes for clip clearances with fallback narration. Listeners leave with precise listening habits that make every reprise feel like a new life.
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Highway Men
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ranchbeat, countrymusic, modernwestern
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