Hughie Thomasson dies

[snaggeltooth]

Outlaws founding guitarist Hughie Thomasson dies
The Associated Press
September 11, 2007
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Digg Del.icio.us Facebook Furl Google Newsvine Reddit Spurl Yahoo Print Single page view Reprints Reader feedback Text size: TAMPA - Hughie Thomasson, a guitarist and founding member of the popular Southern rock band The Outlaws, has died. He was 55.

Thomasson, an architect of the sound that produced the 1970s rock anthems "There Goes Another Love Song" and "Green Grass and High Tides," died Sunday of an apparent heart attack at his home in Brooksville, north of Tampa. His death was reported on the band's Web site today.

Thomasson was a teenager when he joined the Tampa-based band in the late 1960s. After a breakup and a couple of lineup changes, the group reformed in the early 1970s and released its debut album, "The Outlaws," in 1975.



The album spent weeks on the charts and established The Outlaws as one of the pioneers of the Southern rock sound alongside such bands as Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Marshall Tucker Band and the Allman Brothers Band.

The Outlaws recorded more hit albums and toured extensively before disbanding in the 1990s, when Thomasson was offered a spot in the revamped Lynyrd Skynyrd. He left that group in 2005 to reform The Outlaws, which toured regularly in recent years.

Thomasson recently produced a new CD for the band, surviving members said

[67CamaroRSSS]

How sad. I hate to see folks of my age group dying early. I remember seeing them in 1977. They kicked ass back then.

[bmyers]

never heard of him....

[310stanger]

who?

[67CamaroRSSS]

He was famous before either of you were conceived...............

[snaggeltooth]

I just thought some of the older guys that knew Southern Rock might want to know.. It came as a very big suprise when I read it ,,, RIP Hughie ....Green Grass and High Tides Forever .....