Old Enough to Forget

I know this is likely sacrilege to hardcore fans, but this is where I started with the band. "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" was the song that hooked me. It hooked me good. I think I got the album in late 1981. I know it was about a year before Rick Cua released his first solo album, and that was in '82. The same year the Outlaws would release Los Hombres Malo  -  the last album I'd get by the band for decades. I did hear "Green Grass & High Tides" on the radio once back in the early '80s when one of the local radio stations dedicated a weekend to the 100 best guitar solos of all time. I remember it being a pretty cool song, but honestly it just felt like a retread of "Free Bird," and frankly, that song never did much for me, so any kissing cousins by default didn't do much for me by extension. That was then. But back to my first blush with Outlaws, and frankly it was a good one, even if I wasn't sure what to make of the weird balance b...