For THE OUTLAWS (@outlawsmusic), it’s not only about
the music they’ve made for decades, it’s also about the pride they’ve always
put into creating their legacy. As purely evidenced on their much
long-awaited sixth studio album, IT’S ABOUT PRIDE is due out
September 25 on Rocket Science Ventures. “Tomorrow’s Another Night,” the
album’s first single, is being serviced to radio on August 20. The band
known for their triple-guitar Rock attack and three-part Country harmonies
finally returns to the music scene with their first new studio album since
1994’s DIABLO CANYON (Blues Bureau International).
During the last 40 years, the Southern Rock
legends--founding singer/songwriter/guitarist Henry Paul and drummer/songwriter
Monte Yoho along with lead guitarist Billy Crain, co-lead guitarist Chris
Anderson, keyboardist/vocalist Dave Robbins and bassist/vocalist Randy
Threet—have celebrated triumphs, endured tragedies and survived legal
nightmares to remain one of the most influential and best-loved bands of the
genre. Now THE OUTLAWS are back with new music, a new focus and an
uncompromising new mission: it’s about a band of brothers bound together
by history, harmony and the road. It’s about a group that respects its
own legacy while refusing to be defined by its past. Most of all, it’s
about pride.
IT’S ABOUT PRIDE is an album four years in the
making and perhaps 20 or more in the waiting. For original OUTLAWS
singer/songwriter/guitarist Henry Paul, it’s a hard-fought revival whose
success can be measured in old fans and new music. “Because THE OUTLAWS
have been out of the public eye for so long, it’s almost like starting over,”
he explains. “But because of the band’s history, we’re seeing this as a
new chapter. We’ve written and recorded this album on our own terms, and
we’re out to make a significant impression. What our fans loved then they
still love now, because we are just as good or even better than we were.
Most of all, they recognize the heart of what it is we still do.”
For co-founding drummer/songwriter Monte Yoho, the journey
is both bittersweet and jubilant. “I still think about the friends we
made when we first came into this industry, how we struggled to define this
thing that became known as ‘Southern Rock,’” he says. “This new album
embodies all the things we shared musically and personally, as well as the
relationships we have with our fans to this day. It’s about where we’ve
been, where we’re going, and why we still love to do this.”
In addition to the touring THE OUTLAWS will be doing over
the next few months to promote IT’S ABOUT PRIDE, they’ll also be a
part of the “Simple Man Cruise” on Norwegian Pearl along with Lynyrd Skynyrd,
The Doobie Brothers, and many others, which departs from Miami on October
27. Fans can check outwww.simplemancruise.com for
further info.
Of a recent live show, Bill Robinson of Huffingtonpost.com proclaimed:
“…(Henry Paul and Monte Yoho) are doing a valiant job at staying true to
the original Outlaws melodies…Besides the lyrical genius of Paul's words and the
imagery they convey, these songs' music mixes a beautiful, acoustic guitar
opening with raucous, hard-driving type leads from there on in.”
Formed in Tampa in 1972, THE OUTLAWS became one of the first
acts signed by Clive Davis (at the urging of Ronnie Van Zant) to his
then-fledgling Arista Records. The band’s first three albums, THE
OUTLAWS, LADY IN WAITING and HURRY SUNDOWN (featuring
such Rock radio favorites as “There Goes Another Love Song,” “Green Grass &
High Tides,” “Knoxville Girl” and “Freeborn Man”), would become worldwide Gold
and Platinum landmarks of the Southern Rock era. Known as “The Florida
Guitar Army” by their fans, THE OUTLAWS earned a formidable reputation as an
incendiary live act touring with friends The Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd
Skynyrd, The Marshall Tucker Band and The Charlie Daniels Band as well as
Doobie Brothers, The Who, Eagles and The Rolling Stones. Henry Paul left
after the group’s third album to form The Henry Paul Band for Atlantic Records,
and later the multi-Platinum country trio Blackhawk. Over the next
20-plus years, THE OUTLAWS would experience rampant personnel changes, tonal
missteps, ill-fated reunions and bitter trademark battles that left fans – not
to mention Paul and Yoho – frustrated and saddened. And with the tragic
deaths of co-founding members Frank O’Keefe and Billy Jones in 1995, and
songwriter/vocalist/lead guitarist Hughie Thomasson in 2007, it was feared that
THE OUTLAWS’ trail had come to an end.
“THE OUTLAWS were the one area of my career where I had
regrets,” admits Paul. “More importantly, I think it was the one area in
my career where I thought I still have something to prove. I felt
compelled to stick my neck out and take a chance of putting this band back
together. I knew we would be judged, but I hoped we would be judged on
our abilities.”
Check out THE OUTLAWS at any of the following stops, with
more tour dates to be added in the coming weeks:
DATE CITY VENUE
Fri
7/20 Edwardsville,
IL Wildey
Theatre
Mon
7/30 Verona,
NY
Turning Stone Resort and Casino/Showroom
Tue
7/31
Wildwood,
NJ
Cape May Convention Center
Wed
8/1
Englewood,
NJ
Bergen Performing Arts Center
Thu
8/2
Unionville,
CT
Infinity Music Hall & Bistro
Sat
8/4
Winter Park, CO
Music Fest
Fri
8/17
Vernal, UT
Country Explosion
Sat
9/1
Whitefish,
MT
Depot Park
Thu
9/13 New
Hope,
PA
Havana New Hope
Fri
9/14
East Durham, NY Blackthorne
Resort
Sat
9/15 Newton,
NJ
Newton Theatre
Fri 9/28
Pomona,
CA
Los Angeles County Fair
Sat
10/27 Miami FL
Simple Man Cruise
Sat
11/17 Medina,
MN
Medina Entertainment Center
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