BEST OF THE OUTLAWS: GREEN GRASS AND HIGH TIDES is, along with GREATEST HITS OF THE OUTLAWS/HIGH TIDES FOREVER, one of the ultimate Outlaws anthologies.

Disc 1 Greatest Hits of the Outlaws/ High Tides Forever

1. Stick Around for Rock & Roll
2. There Goes Another Love Song
3. Take It Any Way You Want It
4. Green Grass & High Tides
5. (Ghost) Riders in the Sky [Live]
6. Hurry Sundown
7. Holiday
8. You Are the Show [Live]

Although it has been supplanted by the CD collection Best of the Outlaws: Green Grass & High Tides, the vinyl album The Greatest Hits of the Outlaws/High Tides Forever remains a solid eight-track collection, featuring their best-known songs — "There Goes Another Love Song," "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky, " "Hurry Sundown, " "Green Grass and High Tides" — which may be all that a casual fan needs. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Disc 2 Best Of the Outlaws/ Green Grass & High Tides

1. There Goes Another Love Song
2. Knoxville Girl
3. Song For You
4. Waterhole
5. Green Grass & High Tides
6. Breaker Breaker
7. South Carolina
8. Freeborn Man
9. Prisoner
10. Girl From Ohio
11. Stick Around For Rock & Roll
12. Hurry Sundown
13. Gunsmoke
14. You Are The Show
15. Take It Any Way You Want It
16. Riders In The Sky, (Ghost)

The Best of the Outlaws: Green Grass and High Tides is a comprehensive, 16-track overview of the ’70s southern rock band, featuring all their hits — "There Goes Another Love Song," "Breaker-Breaker," "Hurry Sundown" and "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" — plus liner notes by the band’s founding members, Henry Paul and Hughie Thomasson.
- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Southern Rock Pioneer Hughie Thomasson Dies in Florida

Guitarist Founded the Outlaws and Later Joined Lynyrd Skynyrd

Southern rock unit the Outlaws was formed in Tampa, FL in 1972 by singers/guitarists Hughie Thomasson and Henry Paul, bassist Frank O’Keefe, and drummer Monte Yoho. With the 1973 addition of guitarist Billy Jones, the lineup was complete, and after a year of intense touring the band became the first act signed to Arista under Clive Davis; the Outlaws’ self-titled 1975 album spotlighted their Eagles-influenced harmonies and Allman Brothers-like guitar attack, yielding the Top 40 hit "There Goes Another Love Song." In the wake of 1977’s Bill Szymczyk-produced Hurry Sundown, both Paul and O’Keefe exited, with guitarist Freddie Salem, bassist Harvey Dalton Arnold, and second drummer David Dix signing on for the 1978 concert set Bring It Back Alive and the studio effort Playin’ to Win. Salem was the next to go, and the lineup shuffles continued when Arnold announced his departure following 1979’s In the Eye of the Storm, with bassist Rick Cua recruited for the next year’s Ghost Riders in the Sky, which netted a Top 40 entry with its title track, a rendition of the Vaughn Monroe favorite. Yoho left to rejoin Henry Paul soon after, and with the subsequent exit of Jones, only Thomasson remained from the original Outlaws roster — not surprisingly, the group disbanded upon completing 1982’s Los Hombres Malo. A year later Thomasson and Paul formed a new Outlaws lineup, adding guitarist Chris Hicks, bassist Barry Borden, and drummer Jeff Howell; after issuing 1986’s Soldiers of Fortune, Paul again quit the band, with the remaining quartet returning in 1993 with Hittin’ the Road. While Paul resurfaced in 1994 in the chart-topping contemporary country band Blackhawk, Thomasson later toured with the reformed Lynyrd Skynyrd while continuing to lead the Outlaws, releasing So-Low in 2000. Sadly, Jones and O’Keefe died within three weeks of one another in early 1985.

One of the pre-eminent Southern rock guitarists has died. Hughie Thomasson went out to dinner with his wife Mary on Sunday (Sept. 9), went home, got comfortable in his favorite chair to watch football and then passed away from a heart attack during a nap. He was 55 and lived in Brooksville, Fla., near Tampa.

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