Southern Rock thread - Post your favorite. I'll start with "One Way Out"

[bluesbassman]

Allman Brothers live at the Fillmore East, 1971. One of the greatest live bands of any genre.

[Le Taz Hot]

1. Great song and great album.

Got me jammin' this mornin'.

[Zorro]

2. I'll play

Skynyrd...

[bluesbassman]

3. Always loved the hook in that tune...

Nice pick!

[RebelOne]

4. That is the first group I thought of. You beat me to it.

But my favorite song is "Sweet Home Alabama."

[Boom Sound 416]

5. All I Can Do is Write

Skynyrd

[PRETZEL]

6. Ever since college,

my favorite has been "Green Grass and High Tides" by the Outlaws.

[bluesbassman]

8. Great tune, always crank that one up when it comes on the car radio.

[Arugula Latte]

7. Out of Athens, G-A:

[bluesbassman]

9. Way to think outside the box!

Good music!

[Arugula Latte]

11. Thanks!

One of my top three favorite REM songs!

[KamaAina]

19. Also out of the box: The Radiators

Southern (NOLA), rock, but not "Southern rock".

[sharp_stick]

10. Molly Hatchet

Flirting With Disaster. I loved this when I was a kid.

[Wait Wut]

22. Cool.

You saved me from having to search for it.

[panader0]

12. I love the Allman Bros, but let's give Sonny Boy Willianson his due, he wrote the song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=frQU2dTg5p4

[NightWatcher]

13. One of the hardest working Southern road bands

Drivin N Cryin

[Boom Sound 416]

16. That's deep

[Brother Buzz]

14. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Green River

John Fogerty summered on Green River (Putah Creek), north of me.

[KamaAina]

18. All are Bay Area natives!

Southern rock from the West Coast!

[RebelOne]

21. Credence Clearwater was the greatest.

In the '70s, I bought all their albums.

[pintobean]

15. Great stuff

I love southern and country rock.

I don't know shit about playing a guitar. The first time I saw the MTB, I was astounded that Toy Caldwell picked with his thumb.

Here's a good one that never got much air play.

[bluesbassman]

17. Love those guys. Toy had great touch and tone and I enjoy his singing too..

I rode an elevator with him after a concert with Lynyrd Skynyrd in San Francisco in '74 (we were trying to crash the after concert party, but didn't make it in (: ). Really nice guy that we lost too soon. RIP Toy.

[Ahpook]

20. Marshall Tucker Band

Good melodies

[bluesbassman]

23. Absolutely! One of my all time favorite tunes!

The solos Toy did wove perfectly with the lyrics. Get a little choked up every time I hear that song. Just a stunningly beautiful piece.

[Blue_In_AK]

24. Back to the Allman Bros., "Sweet Melissa"

I loved this song so much, I named my youngest daughter after it. Only later, I found out Melissa was my great-grandmother's name, so it was a family name, as well.


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[BainsBane]

25. Does Stevie Ray Vaughn count?

as Southern Rock? Probably not, but I'm going to pick him anyway.

I'm picking White Boots. Don't ask me why.

[cherokeeprogressive]

43. If we're talkin' Stevie Ray, I gotta go with "Life Without You". n/t

[BainsBane]

44. That works for me

It's more rock-like

[cherokeeprogressive]

45. You know I like you... you have good taste.

I had just been discharged from the Navy and was living in Austin when Stevie Ray died. Bad times.

Some day I'll tell you about Halloween Night in '82. I was in the Navy in Jacksonville, FL and some friends and I met some people in a bar. They invited us to a party. We rode with them, and when we got to the party, there were about 100 other people. It was in a freakin' cemetery. It was really quiet; not like a party at all. To be honest, I was kinda scared at first. Someone handed me a beer, passed me a joint, and I asked what the FUCK was going on. Little did I know; we were next to the graves of Ronnie Van Zant, and Steve and Cassie Gaines. We partied silently and respectfully until about 4 in the morning until about 10 cop cars showed up. The Cops (Very cool guys) passed out trash bags and told us it was time to leave. There was NO tension, NO worry, no one panicked. It was something that had happened for the last few years.

Silently and efficiently, everyone picked up every beer can, every cigarette butt, every roach, every trace of trash and when we were done there was probably less evidence that we were there than before anyone got there. The cops waited at the gate and locked up behind us. As God is my witness I swear this to be true. Had I not been there I wouldn't have believed it myself.

I read a few years ago that their graves were desecrated and moved. My, how times have changed.

[BainsBane]

46. Do you mean 92?

Stevie died in 1990, just a couple of years after I moved to Austin myself. I lived there until 1998.

I can't believe the graves were desecrated. He is so revered in Austin. Of course someone killed the Treaty Oak too, so I guess people will do just about anything.

[cherokeeprogressive]

50. I wasn't clear.

I got out of the Navy in '89 and moved to Round Rock, which is where I was living when Stevie Ray died. I used to spend a lot of time on Sixth Street and at a place called The Back Door. I remember going to Sixth Street the night Stevie Ray died. I was just getting into the Blues and I've never seen so many people so bummed out.

About Sixth Street in general... I STILL have a t-shirt I got there. It says "LSD consumes 47 times its weight in excess reality".

The night in Jacksonville (Orange Park actually) partying with the Skynyrd fans is something I'll never forget. That anyone would desecrate those graves makes me so sad.

Hey do you remember this? http://www.the-faces.com/lane/articles/data/19890402AusAmSt.htm We woke up that Saturday, turned on the radio and when we heard what was going on, actually started packing up the car!

KLBJ used to have a daily thing called "Sack Lunch" where if you called in and identified some songs they played you'd win a free lunch somewhere in Austin. Me and the guy I worked with won it three times...

[BainsBane]

52. I don't remember that

I was in graduate school at the time, which required an enormous amount of time in the library reading. I loved Austin, but I had to spend a lot of time working. Still, I loved grad school and made awesome friends I have to do this day, if only they didn't all live scattered across the country.

[Sedona]

26. From Gainsville Florida

(edited to remove that piece of shit confederate flag that sneaked in at the end)

[Hoyt]

51. Love Petty. Good edit, that friggin flag is what I hate about "Southern" rock.

I don't like any group that has it on album covers, t-shirts, etc.

[MerryBlooms]

27. Kentucky Headhunters -- Walk Softly on this Heart of Mine

[wyldwolf]

28. Two from Wet Willie

[MerryBlooms]

29. Little Feat - Dixie Chicken

[nolabear]

40. That was my pick too.

You just can't beat Feat.

[MerryBlooms]

47. No, you sure can't. :)

[MerryBlooms]

30. The Band, Up On Cripple Creek

[BainsBane]

32. I love the Weight

[MerryBlooms]

34. Me too. :)

[kwassa]

31. Statesboro Blues

[MerryBlooms]

33. One of my most favorites ever-Green Grass and High Tides

[MerryBlooms]

35. Ozark Mountain Daredevils-If You Wanna Get to Heaven

[madrchsod]

70. here`s to travis and the country pickers who put drive in thier country

[MerryBlooms]

75. rec.

[MerryBlooms]

36. Steve Earle - Copperhead Road

[MerryBlooms]

37. The Highwaymen - Highwayman

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

63. Thanks

One of my favorites

[MerryBlooms]

38. Gov't Mule - Beautifully Broken

[lastlib]

39. Molly Hatchet!! (appropos for today 11/22/63)

"Fall of the Peacemakers":

"....A hush from the crowd as the horse rode by,
Black lace fell with the tears from her eyes,
And we all wept in sadness--
Oh, stop the madness!

How many times must good men die?
How many tears will the children cry
Til we suffer no more sadness?
Oh, stop the madness..."


How appropriate as we mourn the fall of a Peacemaker!

[BeyondGeography]

41. Ronnie and Neil by The Drive-By Truckers

Southern Rock Opera...funny, insightful and it rocks:

And, of course, Dead, Drunk and Naked

[Miles Archer]

42. MTB "24 Hours At A Time"

Toy Caldwell was like Duane, a guy who just nailed a sound all his own in a genre that got stale about five minutes after they came up with the term "Southern Rock." I'd put the first half dozen or so Marshall Tucker albums right up there with anything the Allmans did in the same period.

[hobbit709]

48. a little Doug Sahm

[SkatmanRoth]

49. Black Oak Arkansas - Jim Dandy

Back in the days when there was music videos on VH1 ...

Jim Dandy Mangrum performed his signature song.

In case you are interested, Ruby Starr died of lung cancer in 1995

[klook]

53. Colonel Bruce!

Col. Bruce Hampton (Ret.) with the Aquarium Rescue Unit performing his great tune, "Basically Frightened":

Oteil Burbridge on bass. DAMN!

[Hoyt]

60. Cool. I played poker with Hampton a couple of times. He was one crazy player.

[klook]

54. Atlanta Rhythm Section!

"Doraville":

Touch o' country in the city. It ain't much, but it's home!

[Hula Popper]

55. Delaney and Bonnie

Living on the open road
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=D32Mlz3HdvU#t=16

[Sedona]

56. One of the few good things to come out of Texas

[bluesbassman]

58. Oh hell yes!

Killer version of that tune too!

[Sedona]

59. Just swapped it out for the little known Woodstock appearrance

[bluesbassman]

67. Great cut too. Damn shame none of Johnny's set made the first album.

Powerful stuff.

[klook]

57. Here's a nice live set from the Allman Bros. when Duane was still around:

Don't Keep Me Wonderin'
Dreams
In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed
Whipping Post
Sept. 23, 1970 - Fillmore East

OMG, what a band!!

[Martin Eden]

61. I know at least one very popular southern rock song that doesn't belong on DU ...

... Sweet Home Alabama, by Lynrd Skynrd, which includes these lyrics that support racist governor George Wallace and impeached president Richard Nixon:
In Birmingham they love the governor
Now we all did what we could do
Now Watergate does not bother me
Does your conscience bother you?

Neil Young had criticized Jim Crow and racists South in his songs Southern Man and Alabama. That didn't sit well with Lynrd Skynrd:
Well I heard mister Young sing about her
Well, I heard ole Neil put her down
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don't need him around anyhow

[Lucinda]

62. A link for you from the DU archives

Clearing up the confusion about Sweet Home Alabama

The band has spoken about people not paying attention to the boo boo boo from the background signers after the governor line.

[Martin Eden]

64. Thanks for clearing up my wrong assumptions!

[madrchsod]

71. they were good friends and respected each others work

this was really a non issue between them.

[cemaphonic]

73. Yeah, Young liked Sweet Home Alabama, and plays it in his live sets every now and then.

And I'm pretty sure that someone in the photo on the cover of their last album is wearing a Neil Young concert tee.

It was all in good fun.

[Jetboy]

65. Rockabilly, the original Southern Rock.

Nice clip of the old Moondog, Alan Freed as well.

[DFW]

66. I saw the Allman brothers at the Fillmore East!

It was 1970 or 1971, maybe even that show.

This was my alltime favorite of theirs:

[cliffordu]

68. All that you dream, Little Feat, off of Waiting for Columbus.

Perhaps one of THE great live albums, like, EVER.

Emmy Lou Harris and Bonny Raitt on backing vocals, the Tower of Power horn section.

And the entire band on fire.

[alarimer]

69. Is "southern rock" defined by where band members were from or by the music?

Because The Band is mostly Canadian, which, while south of the North Pole, is not strictly Southern.

But my money is on the Drive-by Truckers.

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[bluesbassman]

72. Nah, CCR is a good example of "southern rock" feel and they were from the SF Bay Area.

Even the Grateful Dead put out some good southern influenced music.

[cemaphonic]

74. More DBT

And I think that it's more about style than geographic origin. The Band definitely fits.