Setting thing straight

[cozmik_cowboy]

I would just like to say for the record:  While there have been many rock acts from the South, the genre "Southern Rock" consisted entirely of Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Outlaws.
Molly Hatchet was just standard hard rock, .38 Special and Marshall Tucker Band were pop fluff, and ABB was an exploratory hippie band, having more in common with the Dead & QMS than any of the above.
Thank you for your attention.


Peter (who will add that whoever did sound for the 28+ minute "Green Grass & High Tides" he watched last night sucked, and sucked hard; couldn't understand a single word.  But, man, did it rock!)

[lbpesq]

What about the Charlie Daniels Band?

Bill, tgo

[cozmik_cowboy]

Charlie wrote 2 songs; "Uneasy Rider" and everything else he did.  He cut hairs on his bow so the yahoos would think he was an insanely hardcore fiddler.
And, he was always (except for that 1st hit) more rocky country than Southern rock.
I guess he could be a SR pledge or something........

Peter

[David Houck]

This seemed like a good place to post this.

Paul T. Riddle - drums - Marshall Tucker Band
Marcus King - guitar, vocals
Charlie Starr - guitar, vocals - Blackberry Smoke
Oteil Burbridge - bass

Toy Factory Project - Take the Highway - Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2025

[cozmik_cowboy]

OK, Dave has reminded me:  Blackberry Smoke might well qualify as Southern Rock.

Peter (who must confess himself fairly unimpressed with Toy Factory Project, despite the presence of Charlie & O

[DistillaMatto]

I saw the Outlaws open for the Stones in 75 (I was 11 going on 12), ZZ Top a couple years later and then finally saw them as the lead act. One time "Green Grass And High Tides" was playing on an FM AOR station and it was in the middle of the duo guitar solo part. I changed to a pop station and listened to some hit of the time. When I turned back to the AOR station they were still in the middle of the duo guitar solo part.