The Outlaws @50- Henry Paul, the late Hughie Thomasson 7-21

Riding to early gigs packed into the old metallic-painted windowless band van nicknamed “The Copper Coffin”, Tampa Bay’s The Outlaws risked life and limb to follow their collective dream. Fifty years ago legendary record executive Clive Davis, who had signed Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, and Bruce Springsteen to his former label, introduced his new New York City-based record company, Arista, with a three guitar Southern Rock band’s debut album, The Outlaws, featuring “There Goes Another Love Song” and the epic “Green Grass and High Tides”.

Henry Paul and the late Outlaws band co-founder Hughie Thomasson joined me In the Studio for the wild and woolly days that followed, and the music “Hurry Sundown”, “Gunsmoke”, and “Ghost Riders in the Sky” during the golden anniversary of The Outlaws beginning July 21. –Redbeard