It seems that Hughie Thomasson, former guitarist and singer of the Outlaws and later member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, died yesterday. Not much publicity on this one yet.

He was cutting a rug at a place called the Jug with a girl named Linda Lou and, well ... let's just say Linda's husband only gave him two and a half steps. Missed it by thatmuch!

"It wasn't my fault ... liquors drunkened me!" Homer Simpson

...dang it....I saw Hughie so many times back in the Outlaws days....he had that long bushy mane of hair......he was the Outlaws lead singer "There Goes Another Love Song".....

God Bless Hughie, his family and friends.

hugh - i er, who?

Sorry to hear. All of us wild-eyed southern boys know who he was.

"No Anchovies, Please"

Lukester Wrote:
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> ...dang it....I saw Hughie so many times back in
> the Outlaws days....he had that long bushy mane of
> hair......he was the Outlaws lead singer "There
> Goes Another Love Song".....


I'll second that dang it Lukester...Always was,is,will be a big Outlaws fan...As well as Skynyrd of course...The Outlaws had many fine songs bedsides just the anthem Green Grass & High Tides(Free Bird lite,if you will). The only Outlaws cd I have is the Greatest Hits. But very well worth having. Many great songs like Gunsmoke,Hurry Sundown,Ghost Riders in the Sky and one I never heard until I bougt the cd,called "Girl From Ohio". Which considering I have a very nice lady friend from Cincinatti hit a soft spot with me....As well as the the song you mentioned Lukester,which I have worn out. There Goes Another Love Song.

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

Check out "Gray Ghost" by The Henry Paul Band (another Outlaws guitarist) - a very nice tribute to Ronnie Van Zandt.

"No Anchovies, Please"

....damn it....I'm gonna put on an Outlaws album now (vinyl) and drift back into 1976.....find my cowboy boots.....and hat........fat roach.......I'm set.....see you guys tomorrow....

Green Grass & High Tides Forever.

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

RIP








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Believe Hughie had been ill for a time. Hope Elmo will offer reports from Macon and Atlanta papers

Love that Southern Rock ... RIP, thanks for the memories!

Jim

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Thanks Lip. Nice touch as always. Just about one of the best 3 min. rockers of it's day.

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

I think the Outlaws will billed as 'The Florida Guitar Army'. A very good live act.

In 1975 they opened the last show of the Stones US Tour, here in Buffalo. I believe it was The Outlaws, Bobby Womack (who did the original It's All Over Now) and The Stones. (Though from most accounts, the Stones were a mess that day, though the 80,000 people there didn't seem to mind).

RIP Hughie

Seen them back in 76 i think it was at parkhead Celtic football park along with the who, alex harvey, they were brilliant 1st time i saw em loved him when he was in skynyrd too RIP hughie and family

bring em back alive is one of the greatest live albums, listened to it alot in high school around the bonfire with a beer. great jams hughie, rest in piece...

great guitar player with a sweet voice.

The Outlaws were great!

r.i.p. Hughie

this is from the Outlaws website, apparently some of the surviving members had gotten back together:

"With great sadness, we must announce the passing of our friend, Hughie Thomasson. Hughie died unexpectedly late Sunday night of an apparent heart attack at his home in Brooksville, Florida."

Sorry, stonesrule, nothing in the Macon or Atlanta papers' websites. The Outlaws weren't a Capricorn records band (I don't think).

Here's a link from a Charlie daniels website.

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"No Anchovies, Please"

Thanks for checking Elmo. Shows how things change, doesn't it?

On a brighter (kinda note) saw the Stax Records PBS show on TV and it was fab to hear all that music, the gret Otis and so many more

The Stax-Volt tour of the UK in 1967 was major groundbreaking. Would have loved to have attended those gigs.

You ain't lying. Really miss those days - Dixie Rock, lots of concerts in Macon, freaks wearing concert shirts and floppy leather hats, that sweet smell rising from the arena floor, etc.

sad sad sad - this makes me feel old for some reason... i loved the outlaws in the day, saw them so many times there in upstate new york...

Gee, I guess all the Confederate Flags are at half-mast too honor this hill-billy.

I wish - your not funny - your an a-hole!

Hughie & the Outlaws were one of the better southern groups out there!!

I liked them better than Skynyrd!! I have a concert of their's from 1976,
Denver - played it LOUD on the way home from work yesterday..

Great band - RIP Hughie & Billy Jones (the other guitarist in the band
who took his life in 1995)..

MLC

Please, the Outlaws have one song. They are not very good. Let your free flag fly bro!!!!!!!!!

One song huh??

Stick around for rock&roll, Cry no more (this song rocks live!!)
Green Grass & High Tides, There goes another Love song, Prisoner

there's (5) lame ass - and I'm from California, not the South..

Guess I just know good music when I hear/see it. Too bad you don't!

MLC

Wow, 5 good songs!!!!!!!!! How many albums they produce? You can only name 5 good songs. So that means all their albums suck. 5 tunes are only half an LP. By the way, only California sucks more than the South. Go sip your sauvigon blanc and eat your quiche you banal plastic clown!!!!!!!

Wishing I wasn't an A-HOLE!!

Their first (3) albums were very good, so again U don't know SHIx

And I'll drink my Beer & Whiskey and relieve myself on you..

MLC

I know plenty, sorry you don t. You would miss if you ever got the chance you old feculent yahoo.