Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings - Heroes (Razor & Tie - Steve Hoffman)

Heroes is an album by country singers Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings, released on Columbia Records in 1986 (see 1986 in music).

Although the two musicians had collaborated several times before - most notably in 1985 as part of The Highwaymen, along with Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson - this was the duo's first and only full-length album.

Heroes was also Cash's last original release on Columbia, with which he parted ways soon after the record's release.

"Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" charted as a single, reaching No. 35 on the country charts.

"Field of Diamonds" was recorded by Cash fourteen years later for American III: Solitary Man (2000). The last track, "One Too Many Mornings" is a song written by Bob Dylan for his album The Times They Are a-Changin', and had been recorded, but deemed unusable, by Cash and Dylan in 1969 during the sessions for Nashville Skyline.



Tracklist



1. "Folks Out on the Road" (Frank J. Myers, Eddy Raven) – 2:47

2. "I'm Never Gonna Roam Again" (Rodney Crowell) – 2:56

3. "American by Birth" (Roger Alan Wade) – 2:33

4. "Field of Diamonds" (Cash, Jack Routh) – 2:37

5. "Heroes" (Bobby Emmons, Chips Moman) – 4:16

6. "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" (Crowell) – 3:03

7. "Love Is the Way" (Kris Kristofferson) – 2:31

8. "Ballad of Forty Dollars" (Tom T. Hall) – 3:11

9. "I'll Always Love You (in My Own Crazy Way)" (Frank Miller, Troy Seals, Brian Setzer) – 3:58

10. "One Too Many Mornings" (Bob Dylan) – 2:38





Personnel



* Johnny Cash - Vocals, Guitar

* Waylon Jennings - Vocals, Guitar

* Rick Yancey, Danny Hogan - Background Vocals

* Al Casey, J.R. Cobb, Jerry Shook, Reggie Young - Guitar

* Marty Stuart - Guitar, Mandolin

* Ralph Mooney - Steel Guitar

* Larry Butler, Bobby Emmons, Bobby Wood - Keyboards

* Gene Chrisman - Drums

* Jimmy Tittle - Bass

* Mike Leech - Bass, Arranger

* The A-Strings - Strings

* Ace Cannon, Dennis Good, Wayne Jackson - Horn

* Mickey Raphael - Harp