Picture a crisp Uniondale evening when Johnny Cash’s baritone thunder met Willie Nelson’s plaintive drawl, Waylon Jennings’s outlaw swagger and Kris Kristofferson’s poetic grit for a blistering take on ‘Me and Bobby McGee’ with the American Outlaws at Nassau Coliseum in March 1990; every chord felt like a confession, every lyric like a shared secret, and when that final refrain echoed through the rafters of that legendary 18,000-seat arena, the house crackled with communal ache—and for five unforgettable minutes, hope and heartbreak rode the same highway.
Introduction On a warm March night in 1990, The Highwaymen brought their outlaw spirit to Nassau Coliseum with a stirring…