A few years back the band put out "Legacy Live", a very impressive, high quality recording of the band doing what it has been doing for the last 45 years or so. I ended up purchasing a copy of it and was blown away by the musicianship and the overall sound quality of these classic live recordings. The band has picked up where they left off with their new song which might be their best material since the very under appreciated Diablo Canyon album. In fact this new song is a modern day southern rock anthem featuring a fired up Henry Paul and the twin guitar attack of both Dale Oliver and Steve Grisham.
The band's record label is a German based outfit who value high production value. They also just released the new Molly Hatchet double live CD. It appears that fans in that part of the world value southern rock a tad more than Americans these days. In any event, this is how you keep a brand alive. You do it with great performances and quality recordings. Fans of southern rock can look forward to a new album "Dixie Highway" dropping on February 28th.
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Great new track, although probably a title that will probably resonate
ReplyDeletethe most with European fans, who still seem to appreciate real guitar-
based music despite all the derivative-dance-drek that tends to emanate
from over there on a near-daily basis! Personally, and I'm totally going against the grain here, but one of my fave Outlaws' albums was
their Spencer Proffer/Pasha-affiliated 1986 "comeback" effort, "Soldiers Of Fortune", featuring a mid-1980s' production sheen and the
that quite fine track "One Last Ride". Yeehaw!!
I actually do like that effort. They went full 80's with no apologies. I had the cassette and wore it out driving my Z-28 around town.
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