{"id":27761,"date":"2024-04-07T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=27761"},"modified":"2024-04-05T11:19:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T15:19:45","slug":"why-the-highwaymen-threatened-a-reporter-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/04\/why-the-highwaymen-threatened-a-reporter-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Why The Highwaymen Threatened A Reporter Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1991, The Highwaymen were touring abroad when they sat down for an interview&#8230; and let&#8217;s just say, it did not go as planned.<\/p>\n<p>The first question that was asked was, quote,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Why [are you] teaming up together? At least one critic, probably more, suggested it&#8217;s because none of you can now fill the halls anymore on your own, and it takes four of you.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kris Kristofferson first answered with,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;How kind of you to point that out.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then Johnny Cash jumped in and defended them.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That&#8217;s not a true statement you made there.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Johnny went on to say that all four of them could sell out shows on their own, and it takes a lot of work to get all their schedules lined up to make it work.<\/p>\n<p>This is when Waylon Jennings came in with one of the most intense statements ever said in an interview.<\/p>\n<blockquote><div class=\"three_fourth\">&#8230;<\/div><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Highwaymen all shared a great big laugh together, but the reporter did not.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full interview below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V6_FWKLuY2s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 1991, The Highwaymen were touring abroad when they sat down for an interview&#8230; and let&#8217;s just say, it did not go as planned.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":23692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[711,4353,8535,7716,3633],"class_list":["post-27761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-johnny-cash","tag-kris-kristofferson","tag-the-highwaymen","tag-waylon-jennings","tag-willie-nelson"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 18:39:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/04\/why-the-highwaymen-threatened-a-reporter-abroad\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}