[Tupelo]

I have often wondered how Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash were able to get along with Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. I have heard of odd couples, but they really were a strange quartet. All talanted as hell but politically as different as day and night.

[Our man in washington]

From Johnny Cash’s hit song “The One on the Right Was on The Left”:

“Now this should be a lesson if you plan to start a folk group
Don’t go mixin’ politics with the folk songs of our land
Just work on harmony and diction
Play your banjo well
And if you have political convictions keep them to yourself”

That’s probably how they got along. Cash probably just ignored Willie and Kris when they started talking politics.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: I have often wondered how Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash were able to get along with Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. I have heard of odd couples, but they really were a strange quartet. All talented as hell but politically as different as day and night.

During our yearly thanksgiving reunion, the patriarch of our family had one rule we all should follow -— NO DISCUSSION OF POLITICS IN THE DINNER TABLE. We’ve followed it for decades and everything has been peaceful and pleasant through the years.

[VerySadAmerican]

Willie said he and Waylon sometimes had to have a long distance relationship.

Waylon almost whipped Kristofferson’s ass for spouting off his communist beliefs on stage with The Highwaymen. He said “You can have your beliefs. But when there are three other people on the stage you need to keep them to yourself.” I wish he had whipped his little scrawny butt.