NOVEMBER 10, 2003. THREE OLD MEN STOOD ON THE RYMAN STAGE WITH ONE EMPTY MIC BETWEEN THEM. Johnny Cash had died two months earlier.
NOVEMBER 10, 2003. THREE OLD MEN STOOD ON THE RYMAN STAGE WITH ONE EMPTY MIC BETWEEN THEM. Johnny Cash had died two months earlier. June had died four months before him. Willie Nelson walked out first. Then George Jones. Then Kris Kristofferson. They picked “Big River” — Johnny’s 1958 song, the one all four Highwaymen…