An anonymous reader writes:
Hughie Thomasson passed last Sunday. This is from an interview posted on the Outlaws web site. With all the music industry talk here, I thought Hughie's recent comments would be of interest. The recording industries days are gone, they've taken enough... too much!
http://outlawsmusic.com/boards/index.php?s=87b74afffe062ab0417c38f6c06f36be&showtopic=1584
ragmag
post Sep 10 2007, 7:29 PM
I've had the pleasure of interviewing Hughie through the years...most recently was about a month and a half ago for the North Coast Voice
HT — The cd is called ONCE AN OUTLAW and it is a collection of 13 songs of what you would expect to hear from the Outlaws. If you're familiar with any of the old Outlaws songs, you will be happy with these songs. We are going to be putting it out ourselves because in this day and age you really don't need the big labels behind like you did in the past. Unfortunately, you needed the big labels back in the day because that's how the music industry was ran back then. The downside to that is that there were alot of great musicians who put out great music back then, but they never made any money — the labels made the money. So, with that in mind, we're free to do what we want, when we want, how we want to do it, and we don't have to answer to any record label holding their hand out to recoup their money. I did the production work on the cd and that's something I also really enjoy doing. I like being on the other side of the glass when we are in the studio. I also try to help out other bands by producing their projects as well. I really enjoy the process of taking a band and making them sound really good. If I can help a band out in that capacity, that really makes me happy.