There Goes Another Love Song Dixie Highway Outlaws

There Goes Another Love Song Album: Outlaws (1975)
Dixie Highway
by Outlaws

A movie about a Tumbleweed... made me think "There Goes Another Love Song"

Henry Paul, founding member of The Outlaws, says There Goes Another Love Song is another in their repertoire of songs about being on the road: "'Trying to get back to where I know I belong,' there we are again, sitting in some stupid Days Inn in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1974." And even though they were doing something they loved, and on the edge of serious success, it didn't assuage the caged feeling of not being able to see their loved ones. Says Paul, "Even as much as you love your job, there's things about that lifestyle that'll make you do things you don't want to admit that you did. That's why they throw TVs out of window. That's why the rock and roll thing is so violent and self-destructive.It's kind of like being a lab rat stuck in some treadmill hell, that in order to keep your sanity you've got to lash out at what's right immediately there, whether it's your hotel room or shooting a TV or being Keith Moon over and over again. But that's where that song came from, and it had a very commercial appeal, and it was a single for us. And although it didn't chart particularly high, it was obviously and definitely a cornerstone in our musical career."

There Goes Another Love Song's chorus was written by Outlaws drummer Monte Yoho, and lead guitarist/singer Hughie Thomasson filled out the rest of the words. Says Henry Paul, "'There goes another love song,' that specific line, 'Someone's singing about me again, now I need more than a friend,' was written by Monte. He was a man of very few words, our drummer. He was a very smart and sharp, witty guy, but he wasn't the most poetic character. I'm not trying to say that he was a dumb guy, just that his sense of poetry was on the target, but it wasn't close to the center. But he wrote that, and then Hughie sort of rounded out the song with the verses."

Henry Paul “I hope that Dixie Highway reinforces the notion that the Outlaws still matter, and that southern rock will always matter,” he says. “It’s a message we’re proud to bring into the twenty-first century.”

It was Skynyd’s Ronnie Van Zant who brought the Outlaws to the attention of their eventual home of Arista Records, forcing an executive to watch a support spot with Skynyrd in Columbus, Georgia in 1974. With typical bullishness, Van Zant collared label boss Clive Davis and told him: “If you don’t sign the Outlaws, then you’re the dumbest music person I’ve ever met – and I know that you’re not.”

Thomasson died of a heart attack two years afterwards, but Henry Paul keeps things moving forwards. He’s completely comfortable with that, having overturned a lawsuit from Hughie’s widow that attempted to prevent him doing so.

“I hated being dragged down that road, so let me say one thing about the whole situation,” he responds, choosing his words with caution. “text limit