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When Brandi Carlile and Amanda Shires formed the Highwomen as the female answer to the male country supergroup the Highwaymen, their first order of business may have been considered blasphemy by some: rewriting “Highwayman,” the 1985 theme song of Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson’s all-star band. …

Brandi Carlile and Tanya Tucker furthered their newfound creative relationship on Wednesday night when the singers took the stage at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium during a benefit for Thistle Farms, a local nonprofit benefitting women survivors of abuse and trafficking. Carlile introduced Tucker as the “great matriarch of country and western …