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The Highwaymen was an American 1960s "collegiate folk" group. The quintet's version of "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore", a 19th Century African-American work song, released in 1959 under the title "Michael," was a Billboard #1 hit in September 1961.
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30 paź 2007 · The Folk Hits Collection by The Highwaymen released in 2007. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
20 wrz 2007 · This "all-folk-music" album features The Highwaymen's best-known songs as well as songs written by folk greats like Woody Guthrie ("The Skinking of the Reuben James," and "Roll on Columbia, Roll On"), Tom Paxton ("Ramblin' Boy"), and Bob Gibson ("Well, Well, Well") among others.
It's easy enough to dismiss the Highwaymen as representatives of a brand of folk music that has gone out of fashion, at least among the media tastemakers. Their kind of harmony singing, coupled with traditional songs and ballads, has seldom been written of in the decades since their heyday.
An American folk group from the 1960s; the band used to go by the name ‘The Clansmen’ but changed it due to racial connotations. The group remained together until the mid-sixties.
