''Hurry Sundown'' is the third album by

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southern rock Southern rock is a subgenre of rock music and a genre of Americana. It developed in the Southern United States from rock and roll, country music, and blues and is focused generally on electric guitars and vocals. Author Scott B. Bomar speculat ...

band

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, released in 1977. The title track became a concert staple and fan favorite. Four members of the band,

Hughie Thomasson Hugh Edward "Hughie" Thomasson Jr. (August 13, 1952 – September 9, 2007) was an American guitarist and singer, best known as a founding member of Outlaws. The band found success in the late 1970s and early 1980s with a string of hits. He was ...

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, Billy Jones, and Harvey Dalton Arnold (who replaced Frank O'Keefe on bass) contributed songwriting and lead vocals. Paul would leave the band after the album's release. Thomasson plays pedal steel on some tracks, and banjo on the bluegrass track "So Afraid".

Track listing

#"Gunsmoke" (Henry Paul, Monte Yoho) – 4:18 #"Hearin' My Heart Talkin'" (Tim Martin,

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) – 4:11 #"So Afraid" (Harvey Dalton Arnold) – 3:17 #"Holiday" (Billy Jones) – 4:02 #"Hurry Sundown" (Hughie Thomasson) – 4:05 #"Cold and Lonesome" (Arnold) – 3:19 #"Night Wines" (Jones) – 4:50 #"Heavenly Blues" (Paul) – 3:47 #"Man of the Hour" (Jones, Thomasson) – 6:12

Personnel

*Harvey Dalton Arnold -

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* Billy Jones - electric guitar, vocals *

- guitar, vocals *

- acoustic,

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, and

pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a Console steel guitar, console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than any previous steel guitar design. Like all s ...

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

; vocals *

Monte Yoho Bryon Lamont "Monte" Yoho (born March 26, 1952) is an American southern rock and country musician. He is best known as being a member of Outlaws and Blackhawk. Early life Yoho was born on March 26, 1952, in Lakeland, Florida. In 1965, when he was ...

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;Guests *Manual Labour -

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* Joe Vitale - ARP

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, strings ;Production *Ed Mashal - producer, engineer *

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- producer, engineer

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References

{{Authority control Outlaws (band) albums 1977 albums Albums produced by Bill Szymczyk Arista Records albums Albums with cover art by James Flournoy Holmes