Southern Rock
Slide guitars, long highways, three-guitar harmony.
Southern rock was Allman, Skynyrd, Marshall Tucker — Southern bands who took the blues, took country, took British rock, and made something that could only have come from below the Mason-Dixon. The modern lineage runs through Drive-By Truckers and Jason Isbell's 400 Unit.
Names worth knowing
USA · 1979 — present
Jason Isbell
Wrote 'Southeastern' and meant it.
USA · 1996 — present
Drive-By Truckers
The South as it actually is.
USA · 1969 — 2014
The Allman Brothers Band
Two drummers, twin lead guitars, the South amplified.
USA · 1964 — present
Lynyrd Skynyrd
The South's loudest argument with itself.
USA · 1971 — present
Eagles
California country-rock perfected on a desert highway.
USA · 1967 — 1972
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Bayou rock from the East Bay — and somehow it worked.
USA · 1969 — present
Little Feat
New Orleans funk, slide guitar, and Lowell George's pen.
USA · 1969 — present
ZZ Top
That little ol' band from Texas.
USA · 1972 — present
The Marshall Tucker Band
Country, jazz and Southern rock with a flute solo.
Norway · 1990 — present
Hellbillies
Country rock in Hallingdal dialect — and a national institution.