Many a Long & Lonesome Highway

"Many a Long & Lonesome Highway"
Single by Rodney Crowell
from the album Keys to the Highway
B-side	"I Know You're Married"
Released	September 1989
Genre	Country
Length	4:16
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(s)	Rodney Crowell Will Jennings
Producer(s)	Rodney Crowell Tony Brown
Rodney Crowell singles chronology
"Above and Beyond" (1989) "Many a Long & Lonesome Highway" (1989) "If Looks Could Kill" (1990)

"Many a Long & Lonesome Highway" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Rodney Crowell. It was released in September 1989 as the first single from Crowell's album Keys to the Highway. The song reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in January 1990^[1] and number 1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.^[2] It was written by Crowell and Will Jennings. It was covered by Willie Nelson on his 2024 album The Border.

Chart performance

Chart (1989–1990)	Peak position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[3]	1
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[4]	3

Year-end charts

Chart (1990)	Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[5]	45
US Country Songs (Billboard)[6]	47

References

1. Rodney Crowell Chart History
2. RPM Country Tracks
3. "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 6680." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. January 27, 1990. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
4. "Rodney Crowell Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
5. "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1990". RPM. December 22, 1990. Archived from the original on October 16, 2013. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
6. "Best of 1990: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 1990. Archived from the original on December 11, 2007. Retrieved August 23, 2013.