In 1973, The Allman Brothers Band released a song that would become their biggest commercial hit and one of the defining ...

The territory south of the Mason-Dixon Line has always been musically fertile. Think Memphis and Nashville alone with Sun ...

Like so much rock ‘n’ roll from the earliest and most formative years, Southern rock took a little bit from here and a little bit from there. Southern rock, distinct from its lighter country rock ...

That’s why we wanted to dive into the 1970s catalog and pick out three southern rock songs from the decade that essentially define the sound. A trio of tracks that get us excited to rock and that pay ...

Southern California’s greatest guitar band drew more from Southern rock than you might expect. Van Halen legend David Lee Roth waxed dude-ular, as only he can, on the subject, in an interview excerpt ...

Let’s be real, the days of The Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and The Marshall Tucker Band are over. They have been for a while, but that doesn’t mean that all Southern rock is gone; it just ...

Sitting near the center of “Southern Rock Opera,” the double-album breakthrough that placed Drive-By Truckers on the rock ‘n’ roll map, are a pair of Patterson Hood songs that speak directly to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born in Jacksonville just over 50 years ago, 38 Special is still holding on loosely. The nonstop Southern rock band is celebrating ...

In 1977, Muscle Shoals Sound Studio cofounder and Swampers guitarist Jimmy Johnson offered a local band called Jackson Highway a song called “Old Time Rock and Roll.” The band, named after Muscle ...

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Why southern rock: Its mix of blues, country, and rock creates a driving rhythm and soulful energy that pairs perfectly with the freedom of the open road. Who to play: Legends like the Allman Brothers ...

The sequencing is tight, the performances are locked in and the emotional throughline is clear from start to finish. A belter ...