In the late 1980s, country music legends Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings recorded "The Night Hank Williams Came To Town," a tribute song included on Cash's 1987 album "Johnny Cash Is Coming To Town." Written by Bobby Braddock and Charlie Williams, the track pays homage to the enduring star power of Hank Williams, who died in 1953 at the height of his fame, and stands as one of the most memorable collaborations between the two artists during the later stages of their careers.

Unusually structured with seven verses rather than a typical verse-chorus format, the song opens with references to 1950s Americana before building to a vivid depiction of a packed gymnasium erupting as Williams takes the stage. It was far from the pair's only collaboration: Cash and Jennings previously scored a Top 5 hit with "There Ain't No Good Chain Gang" in 1978, released a full duets album called "Heroes" in 1986 featuring the Top 40 single "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues," and later joined Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson in the supergroup The Highwaymen, which topped the charts with "Highwayman."