How the legendary King Records took a chance on a young New York-based country songwriter. While he may be the brother of Jon Voight and the uncle of Angelina Jolie, Chip Taylor has managed to carve […]
It’s not often you meet your heroes, I very rarely have. Sure I’ve breathed the same air at gigs and what have you but rarely actually met someone I considered a hero. I did meet one […]
“Looking back, I’m surprised I had the nerve to do it, but I’m glad I did. Performing the songs and performing in film was just part of my personality, just like football and boxing at one […]
In the mid-1980s, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash formed a supergroup, eventually known as The Highwaymen, recording and performing intermittently over a period of 10 years, during which time they released three […]
On the face of it this book is essentially the story of how four “outsiders” (Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson), via their trials and tribulations (and, let’s admit it, success) eventually joined […]
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