{"id":631,"date":"2013-08-23T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=631"},"modified":"2013-08-22T14:57:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T13:57:15","slug":"song-of-the-week-the-highwayman-by-arbouretum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=631","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: “The Highwayman” by Arbouretum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n

This is Arbouretum’s version of “The Highwayman”:<\/p>\n

“The Highwayman” — Arbouretum<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m a big fan of Baltimore’s Arbouretum, and this week I went to see them at the Borderline in London.\u00a0 They played “The Highwayman” as their encore. “The Highwayman,” if you don’t know, is a Jimmy Webb song. Jimmy Webb is probably most famous for writing “Wichita Lineman.” The most well-known version of “The Highwayman” is by The Highwaymen, a super group before we called them super groups: Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. Imagine being in a studio with those dudes. On The Highwaymen version, each singer takes a verse.\u00a0 Here we just get Dave Heumann’s wonderful baritone.<\/p>\n

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