Ever since their ‘comeback’ eight years ago, America icon band, The Outlaws, have been mining such a hard rock, southern-grown resilience their fans have taken to calling them, ‘Southern Rock’s Last Band Standing.’ Along with bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Charlie Daniels Band, The Allman Brothers, and Blackfoot, the Outlaws carved their own way up into the hearts and minds of popular rock, laying out more of that southern sound so unique to all these bands who could mix boogie woogie, swamp and downhome blues in such an American fashion.

Cookin’ is what Mr. And Mrs. R. get up to well on Take It on Faith. This is about as solid a rock country mix of tunes you are going to hear and Gary and Dale both are in fine form tackling mature subject matter and Gary getting to man the ship here with his signature playing. The players behind the pair are about as lock-step in sync as you can hope to find, with Dale and Gary blending into the mix enough that their contributions are not overplayed and proceedings truly feel like a band effort.