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Summary: I wore out my first copy....
Comment: of this one back in the mid 70's. Every time i got in my car, into the old 8 track it would go. I also had it on vinyl, and now on cd. This is a fine debut album for a very talented group of musicians. "There Goes Another Love Song" was the original hit from this disc. Other good tunes here--"Song In the Breeze", "Song For You", "Knoxville Girl" and "It Follows From Your Heart".The signature song of this band is of course the great "Green Grass and High Tides"--the Outlaws "Freebird" as it were. I saw these guys as the opening act for Skynyrd back in '75 or '76(can't remember exactly--too many brain cells ago)and they put on a hell of a show, and then at the end of Skynyrd's set, they came out again and they all jammed out to "T For Texas". Classic. One of the finest acts to come out of the Southern Rock movement, without a doubt.
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Summary: One of the Greatest CDs ever recorded..
Comment: One of the best Outlaws CDs if not THE best. Ranks in all time top ten albums of all time in my opinion.
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Summary: green grass and high tides forever-- never to be forgotten
Comment: this, without a shadow of a doubt, is not only the outlaws best album by a long way ,but probably the best "southern rock" album ever,eclipsing my other favourites skynyrd---just.they had the right mix of country and rock n roll on this- their first release,thanks to henry pauls songwriting and the brilliant guitars of hughie and the sadly missed billy jones its still so powerful 31 years later --im listening to it as i write this review-- shame i never got to see them over here in the uk. lets hope the outlaws 2006 band at least spawns a dvd
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Summary: Southern Rock Defined - 10 stars!!!
Comment: I had been a fan of the Outlaws since this album was released in 1975 but it wasn't until I saw them in concert at the St. Petersburg Bayfront Center on New Years eve in 1977-8 (I still have the ticket stub) that I became rabid. They never received the same airplay that Lynyrd Skynrd and Marshall Tucker enjoyed except perhaps here in the Tampa Bay area. This was truly a shame as this is quite simply the some of the best music of the genre. The vocal harmonies comparison to the Eagles is inevitable but this too, is not a logical comparison. The music is just too different to compare.
From the opening licks on There Goes Another Love Song until the last chords of GG&HT Forever, the beat is non-stop and the guitar playing is quite simply, and there's no other way to put it, AWESOME. Hughie Thomasson, Billy Jones (RIP), and Henry Paul have a way of making you pull out your air guitar and jamming along side them, or wishing you actually knew how to play. The softer sounds of It Follows From Your Heart and Song in the Breeze compliment the harder edge signature songs and no one is immune from toe tapping to Waterhole and Knoxville Girl. I have listened to this album as much or more than any other in my significant collection and I never tire of it. If you've never heard the music, listen to the Amazon clips but they certainly don't do the music justice.
If you only buy one Outlaws album, this should be it.
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Summary: Holy Con Smoke!
Comment: Having just passed my 51st birthday, as a present to myself I downloaded some Marshall Tucker music. Noticing the "Related Music" sidebar, there I saw "Outlaws". In your best Valley Girl voice can you say "Oh muh Gawd"! I bought this album when it first hit the racks and wore the grooves off of it. It's been in my closet for years with the rest of my LPs after I decommissioned my turntable. I immediately downloaded my favorite tunes, burned them to a CD and have been in hog heaven since. I practically blew out my speakers playing GG&HT. What a masterpiece. Wow, talk about bringing back some good old memories. What an album, what a group. Long live Southern Rock and long live the "Outlaws"!
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