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Freddie Salem Dies: Guitarist For Southern Rockers The Outlaws Was 70
Freddie Salem, who played guitar and sang for popular Southern rock band The Outlaws in the late 1970s and '80s, has died. He was 70.
It features one track he wrote (“”I Hope You Don’t Mind”) and closes with an epic 20-minute version of the band’s signature song “Green Grass and High Tides.” The disc made the Top 30 on the Billboard 200 and went gold. “[Bandmates] Billy [Jones] and Hughie [Thomasson] wanted to take it to the next step musically and direction of the group on all fronts including the live performances,” he said in a 2013 interview with the webzine Road to Jacksonville. Salem penned a number of Outlaws tracks including “White Horses,” “Long Gone,” “Devil’s Road” and “Don’t Stop.” He left the group in 1983, after the band was dropped by Arista Records.
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