BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1869@mariettaohio.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250111T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250111T220000 DTSTAMP:20241014T151538Z URL:https://mariettaohio.org/events/the-outlaws/ SUMMARY:The Outlaws DESCRIPTION:For The Outlaws\, it’s always been about the music. For more than 40 years\, the Southern Rock legends have celebrated triumphs and end ured tragedies to remain one of the most influential and best-loved bands of the genre. Today\, The Outlaws have returned with new music\, 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 resp ects its own legacy while refusing to be defined by its past. But most of all\, it’s about pride.\n\nIt’s About Pride was also the title of the band’s acclaimed 2012 album\, universally hailed as their victorious com eback. “Because The Outlaws had been out of the public eye for so long\, it was almost like starting over\,” original singer/songwriter/guitaris t Henry Paul explains. “But because of the band’s history\, we’re st ill seeing this as a new chapter. What our fans loved then is what they st ill love now\, because we are just as good or even better than we were.” For co-founding drummer/songwriter Monte Yoho\, the journey is both bitte rsweet and jubilant. “I still think about the friends we made when we fi rst came into this industry\, how we struggled to define this thing that b ecame known as ‘Southern Rock’\,” Yoho says. “The Outlaws still em body all the things we shared musically and personally\, most of all the r elationship we have with our fans to this day.”\n\nHistory lesson: Forme d in Tampa in 1972\, The Outlaws – known for their triple-guitar rock at tack and three-part country harmonies – became one of the first acts sig ned by Clive Davis (at the urging of Ronnie Van Zant) to his then-fledglin g Arista Records. The band’s first three albums The Outlaws\, Lady In Wa iting and Hurry Sundown – featuring such rock radio favorites as ‘Ther e Goes Another Love Song’\, ‘Green Grass &\; High Tides’\, ‘Kno xville Girl’ and ‘Freeborn Man’ – would become worldwide gold and platinum landmarks of the Southern Rock era. Known as ‘The Florida Guita r Army’ by their fans\, The Outlaws earned a formidable reputation as an incendiary live act touring with friends The Allman Brothers\, Lynyrd Sky nyrd\, The Marshall Tucker Band and The Charlie Daniels Band as well as Th e Doobie Brothers\, The Who\, Eagles and The Rolling Stones. Henry Paul le ft after the group’s third album to form The Henry Paul Band for Atlanti c Records\, and later co-founded the multi-Platinum country trio Blackhawk . Over the next 20+ years\, The Outlaws would experience rampant personnel changes\, tonal missteps\, ill-fated reunions and bitter trademark battle s that left fans – not to mention Paul and Yoho – frustrated and sadde ned. And with the tragic deaths of co-founding members Frank O’Keefe and Billy Jones in 1995\, and especially songwriter/vocalist/lead guitarist H ughie Thomasson in 2007\, it was feared that The Outlaws’ trail had come to an end.\n\n“The Outlaws were the one area of my career where I had r egrets\,” 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 comp elled to stick my neck out and take a chance of putting this band back tog ether. I knew we would be judged\, but I hoped we would be judged on our a bilities.” Along with founding members Paul and Yoho\, the band features several of Southern Rock’s most respected veterans: Keyboardist/vocalis t Dave Robbins is a co-founding member of Blackhawk\, and has written hit songs for artists that include Restless Heart\, Kenny Rogers and Eric Clap ton. Longtime Outlaws’ bassist/vocalist Randy Threet has performed with Trisha Yearwood\, Pam Tillis and Blackhawk\, and is familiar to TV audienc es from USA Network’s ‘Nashville Star’. Lead guitarist Steve ‘Grit s’ Grisham was a member of the Soldiers Of Fortune era Outlaws\, as well as a noted songwriter whose tracks include The Henry Paul Band’s Top 40 hit\, ‘Keepin’ Our Love Alive’. Co-lead guitarist Dale Oliver is on e of Nashville’s most versatile producers/songwriters/musicians and was formerly Blackhawk’s lead guitarist and bandleader for more than 10 year s\, co-writing their hit ‘Almost A Memory Now’. “From the very begin ning\, The Outlaws had heart\,” Monte Yoho says. “And a lot of people who come out and see this incarnation of the band now are responding to th e exact same things we used to put on stage in the ‘70s and ‘80s.”\n \nOn that stage\, the band burns hotter than ever: “The Outlaws helped d efine Southern Rock for me and for generations of fans\,” wrote music jo urnalist Bill Robinson in The Huffington Post. “Seeing them onstage with The Charlie Daniels Band\, Marshall Tucker Band\, Allman Brothers\, Lynyr d Skynyrd or countless others was\, for a long time\, one of the best expe riences I could have. And so it was again when I saw The Outlaws play rece ntly.” The Outlaws’ live shows –vividly captured in their 2016 doubl e album Legacy Live – are blazing 2+ hour tributes to the band’s rich history and fiery rebirth. Classic tracks and fan favorites from the first three albums – as well as The Henry Paul Band’s definitive ‘Grey Gh ost’ – share the spotlight with new songs that are already being embra ced by audiences. “I think our new material goes back to those first thr ee classic albums\, when the band was proud of its influences from country \, blues and jazz\,” says Paul. “Plus\, Steve and Dale have honored an d maybe even stepped up the legacy of the ‘guitar army’. Fans are comi ng away from shows feeling a renewed part of the Outlaws experience.”\n\ nThe Outlaws are now headed back on the road\, back on the radio and back into the hearts of fans nationwide. “I’m seeing this thing we’ve had for more than four decades be exposed to whole new audiences\,” Monte Y oho says. “We’re having a second life as a band\, and it feels better than ever. Best of all\, I’m still doing it with some of the same people I’ve known for most of my life.”\n\n“I want people to see our show\ , hear our new songs and realize that The Outlaws are back\,” says Henry Paul. “Our goal is to unite the fans and bring the band back into the l ight. In a way\, this is like a second chance at my first love. It’s abo ut finishing what we started.” For Henry\, Monte\, Dave\, Randy\, Steve and Dale\, it’s also about a band of brothers who love playing their own brand of rock\, and who 40+ years ago first got the chance to share it wi th to the world.\n\nFor The Outlaws\, it’s still about the music. And no w more than ever\, it’s about pride. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://mariettaohio.org/wp-content/uploads/2024 /10/0utlaws.png CATEGORIES:Arts & Entertainment,Events,Music LOCATION:Peoples Bank Theatre\, 222 Putnam St\, Marietta\, Ohio\, 45750\, U nited States GEO:39.415852;-81.453433 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=222 Putnam St\, Marietta\, Ohio\, 45750\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Peoples Bank Theat re:geo:39.415852,-81.453433 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR