16 classic tracks from "The Florida Guitar Army" - one of Southern rock's biggest platinum bands. Package features never-before-seen photos and liner notes by band founders/singers/guitarists Henry Paul (now of mu. Ti-platinum country superstars Blackhawk) and Hughie Thomasson (currently with Lynyrd Skynyrd). Key tracks: "There Goes Another Love Love," "Green Grass & High Tides," "Breaker-Breaker," "Riders in the Sky" and more.
Hailing from Tampa, Florida, and wielding as many as three lead guitarists at a time, the Outlaws are perhaps one of the least likely bands to be deemed worthy of a major-label retrospective CD. Though supremely competent, the band is completely indistinguishable in both style and substance from earlier and better known acts of southern rock's golden age: Allman Brothers, Marshall Tucker, Lynyrd Skynyrd. Green Grass & High Tides culls 16 tracks from the five studio albums the Outlaws recorded between 1975 and 1980, including their two minor hits, "There Goes Another Love Song" and "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky." Recommended for southern-rock diehards only. --Roni Sarig