Search - Hoover :: Lost Outlaw Album

"Blast From The Past"

Steve Shepherd | Kirksville, Missouri | 09/29/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Before kissing coutry music and Nashville goodbye and riding off into the sunset in the earl 1970s, ASCAP Award winning, single name songwriter and former Monument and Epic recording artist, Hoover, cut one last album at what was known as "Outlaw Headquarters" at 916 19th Ave. South.Hoover, part of the original country music outlaw movement and a late-night-neon-campfire associate of Kinky Friedman, Waylon Jennings, Billy Joe Shaver and Tompall Glaser, considered this album his best. It was never releasesd, and the master recording was lost after "Outlaw Headquarters" studio ceased to exist.Decades passed and Hoover and the lost outlaw album were forgotten. One fan who didn't forget was Cathy Flanagan, who, acting swiftly on a telephone tip in the spring of 1997, literally retrieved Hoover's master tapes from a Nashville Dumpster moments before they would have been hauled away for good. Although most of the documentation for the album was not recovered, the following is known:The album was recorded in 1971-1972. Three cuts, "Unwanted Outlaw," "Subjectively Speaking", and "The One You're Thinking Of" were not found.Cuts include: Absolute Zero, Jesus Don't Drive No Fastback Ford, I'm The Loneliest Man I Ever Met (co-written by Kinky Friedman), Freedom To Stay, Hamilton Jones, Can I Help You?, Take My Hand, Sweet Lady Jane, and I Only Wrote It For You. All songs were written by Hoover, except as noted.The Lost Outlaw Album was recorded at Glaser Studios (aka `Outlaw Headquarters'); Producers: Hoover and Chuck Glaser, Engineers: Claude Hill and Kyle Lehning, Vocals: Hoover, Guitar: Hoover, Randy Scruggs, Biff Watson and John Hoffman, Steel Guitar and Dobro: Doyle Grisham, Keyboards: Bobby Woods and Buck Fell, Fiddle: Buddy Spicher, Bass: Joe Osborne, Gary Scruggs, and Bill Holmes, Drums: Mickey Jones, John Corneal and Larrie London."