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re: Top 5 Southern Rock Bands....
Posted on 2/9/23 at 12:32 am to Tigertown in ATL
Posted on 2/9/23 at 12:32 am to Tigertown in ATL
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ZZ Top and SRV are not Southern Rock in my book.
I'm old, southern, and I rock. I decide who's southern rock. In the mid-70s we certainly owned ZZ Top as southern rock.
A genre is marked by roots, origins, style, influences and on. No doubt, the Texas bands had a stronger blues influence than others southern rock bands but IMO they're comfortably within the southern rock pale.
SRV playing with other southern rockers.
Call Me the Breeze
Johnny Winter is another that sounds southern to me. He was an inspiration to Duane Allman and played some with ABB after Duane's death.
FYI, Skynyrd and Top are touring together in 2023. LINK/ They played at least one date in 1976 together in Memphis.
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Posted on 2/9/23 at 2:02 am to ALLTIGER
1. Allman Bros
2. Skynyrd
3. Outlaws
4. Molly Hatchet
5. Wet Willie
HM: 38 Special, Black Oak Arkansas, Grinderswitch, ZZ Top, and Marshall Tucker
2. Skynyrd
3. Outlaws
4. Molly Hatchet
5. Wet Willie
HM: 38 Special, Black Oak Arkansas, Grinderswitch, ZZ Top, and Marshall Tucker
Posted on 2/9/23 at 3:44 am to AlwysATgr
quote:
I'm old, southern, and I rock. I decide who's southern rock. In the mid-70s we certainly owned ZZ Top as southern rock.
A genre is marked by roots, origins, style, influences and on. No doubt, the Texas bands had a stronger blues influence than others southern rock bands but IMO they're comfortably within the southern rock pale.
IMO SRV is Texas Blues but both Southern Rock and Texas Blues are derivations of Blues Rock. So they are siblings but distinctive IMO.
Posted on 2/9/23 at 6:59 am to KCRoyalBlue
quote:
No one has mentioned Jackyl?
Wtf.
Just bc they're from GA it doesn't make them a southern rock band.
Posted on 2/9/23 at 9:39 am to Wtodd
No love for BlackBerry Smoke?
/ducks
/ducks
Posted on 2/9/23 at 7:17 pm to Wiseguy
quote:
No love for BlackBerry Smoke?
Best southern rock band for the last 15+ years.
Posted on 2/9/23 at 7:45 pm to ALLTIGER
Allman Brothers
Lynyrd Skynyrd
I love both these bands, ABB more but Free Bird is the best southern rock song of all time despite how cliche it has become. Close second to me is Blue Sky.
Marshall Tucker Band is my #3. Good gosh
Can’t You See
Wish I could have seen Black Crowes live at my #4 at their peak. I think they were the best Southern rock band post ABB/Skynyrd and before Widespread Panic, Govt Mule et al. Drivin and Cryin is my #5. Honeysuckle Blue is my favorite Southern rock song of the late 80s.
CDB doesn’t make my list because I consider them more country rock than Southern rock. Probably drank more beer listening to them than any band I’ve mentioned other than ABB
Lynyrd Skynyrd
I love both these bands, ABB more but Free Bird is the best southern rock song of all time despite how cliche it has become. Close second to me is Blue Sky.
Marshall Tucker Band is my #3. Good gosh
Can’t You See
Wish I could have seen Black Crowes live at my #4 at their peak. I think they were the best Southern rock band post ABB/Skynyrd and before Widespread Panic, Govt Mule et al. Drivin and Cryin is my #5. Honeysuckle Blue is my favorite Southern rock song of the late 80s.
CDB doesn’t make my list because I consider them more country rock than Southern rock. Probably drank more beer listening to them than any band I’ve mentioned other than ABB
Posted on 2/9/23 at 8:06 pm to Warheel
Did I miss it, or has no one really mentioned George Thorogood and the Destroyers?
Posted on 2/11/23 at 1:43 pm to KCRoyalBlue
quote:
No one has mentioned Jackyl?
Or Black Oak Arkansas.
quote:
Southern Rock
Ronny VZ hated this term, he believed LS was a heavy rock band, and he is right.
Posted on 2/11/23 at 2:04 pm to ALLTIGER
You don't have the cdb as #1.
List fails.
List fails.
Posted on 2/11/23 at 2:05 pm to Warheel
quote:
Wish I could have seen Black Crowes live at my #4 at their peak. I think they were the best Southern rock band post ABB/Skynyrd and before Widespread Panic,
Saw The Crowes a lot in their hey day and they were phenomenal. Wish the Robinson brothers weren’t both dick heads and they made more music than they did.
Panic formed well before The Black Crowes, for the record, but both are definitely on the list.
Robbie Robertson is Canadian, as were most of the original line up, but The Band has to be on any best of Southern rock list as well. Levon Helm was one soulful motherfricker.
Posted on 2/11/23 at 8:40 pm to KirbySmartass
No love for the drive by truckers?
Posted on 2/11/23 at 9:02 pm to Dire Wolf
Since I don't know if you mean bands from the south or bands that play southern music, I'll go with:
1A. REM
1B. Allman Brothers Band
3.Jimmy Buffett
4.Skynyrd
5.Cowboy Mouth
1A. REM
1B. Allman Brothers Band
3.Jimmy Buffett
4.Skynyrd
5.Cowboy Mouth
Posted on 2/11/23 at 9:03 pm to Tangineck
"Did I miss it, or has no one really mentioned George Thorogood and the Destroyers?"
.... Their original name was George Thorogood and The Delaware Destroyer. Hense... not from the south.
.... Their original name was George Thorogood and The Delaware Destroyer. Hense... not from the south.
Posted on 2/12/23 at 5:56 am to ALLTIGER
quote:
Marshall Tucker Band
Playing at the seafood fest in Everglades City next weekend, may go see them.
quote:
Molly Hatchet
Fun show while flirtin' with disaster
LS is definitely #1
For more modern bands, Kings of Leon
Back Down South
This post was edited on 2/12/23 at 6:01 am
Posted on 2/12/23 at 5:57 pm to Wavefan
quote:
No love for the drive by truckers?
I will always love DBT based on their first several records, but their appeal has really faded over the last few years for me. I would say that everything post English Oceans has sucked, to some degree or another, as Patterson continues to get progressively more political and whiny.
This post was edited on 2/12/23 at 8:00 pm
Posted on 2/12/23 at 7:24 pm to KirbySmartass
Posted on 2/14/23 at 7:01 pm to ALLTIGER
Pride & Glory
Posted on 2/15/23 at 1:07 pm to ALLTIGER
Top 5 in no particular order:
Skynyrd
Allman Brothers
Marshall Tucker Band
38 Special
ZZ Top
Honorable Mentions: Molly Hatchet, Wet Willie, Black Crowes, Atlanta Rhythm Section and The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Georgia Satellites had one of the greatest southern rock songs ever, but then fell off the face of the musical earth, it seemed.
Also, not mentioned in the Top 5 because it was mainly him as an individual performer, but Elvin Bishop is one of the very top of southern rock individuals.
Skynyrd
Allman Brothers
Marshall Tucker Band
38 Special
ZZ Top
Honorable Mentions: Molly Hatchet, Wet Willie, Black Crowes, Atlanta Rhythm Section and The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Georgia Satellites had one of the greatest southern rock songs ever, but then fell off the face of the musical earth, it seemed.
Also, not mentioned in the Top 5 because it was mainly him as an individual performer, but Elvin Bishop is one of the very top of southern rock individuals.
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