The Road Goes on Forever 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 star power 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, Robert Earl Keen Jr., and Stephen Bruton. 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. –Geoffrey Himes

This 10th anniversary limited edition includes a DVD containing the music video for “It Is What It Is” and a documentary, Live Forever: In the Studio with the Highwaymen.
Customer Review: great bonus dvd,
i had the cd already , but the dvd bonus is fantastic and well worth the purchase ,every highwayman fan should own it……….

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(Photo by Sue Palmer) On The Wing goes on a hawk-identification field trip with Bud Anderson of the Falcon Research Group. Falcon Research Group

Audubon - Fighting Global Warming 1
For Earth Day 2007, Audubon washington presented “Unleashing the Power of Audubon - Fighting Global Warming”. Nina Carter introduced the program.

February 2006 - Notes From An English Garden
With Kate, from Birmingham UK.

May 2006 - North seattle Community College Wetlands
(Photo courtesy NSCC) Birds and the restoration of the North seattle Community College Wetlands NSCC Campus Wetlands

September 2007 - Face Recognition In Crows
Professor John Marzluff is conducting an experiment on the University of washington campus, investigating how crows recognize human faces. John Marzluff

March 2007 - Events Calendar
Events Calendar for March 2007 Florida’s First Coast Birding and Nature Festival Alaska Hummingbird Festival Dubois Grouse Days Verde Valley Birding and Nature Festival

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