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Southern Rock Mount Rushmore

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Driftwood, Aug 11, 2019.

  1. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    Daredevils were a niche band. Petty was huge, and while he was entirely southern, he was a mainstream rocker.
     
  2. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    This is where you are ultimately speaking my language.
    Although, back in the day, it was Gulf & Western, not Southern Rock.
     
  3. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    I think for the record, the true (and by that, I mean my) definition of Southern Rock must meet the following criteria:
    1. Has to be a band.
    2. Has to have recorded in the 1970s
    3. Has to have multiple guitars
    4. Has to have a mash of multiple types of music: rock/blues/country/jazz
    5. Has to have a live recording of a song too long for radio play
    6. Has to have originated in the Southeastern United States


    Just because they are from Georgia, that doesn't mean the REM and the B-52s are Southern Rock.
     
  4. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    True, true. But “Southern” and “rock” both contain multitudes.
     
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  5. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    I can get behind this definition even though it excludes Elvis and Levon Helm.
     
  6. cyclingwriter2

    cyclingwriter2 Well-Known Member

    Will just add that I figured Bad Company was a “southern band” until my early 20s. I was mildly amused to find they were not only Brits, but all members of fairly prog/glam bands. I’ve always wondered what that record company pitch was like:
    Agent: “hey, we got this band, the guys were in Mott the Hoople, Free and King Crimson!”
    Company owner: “sign them and give them an unlimited supply of eyeliner.”
    Six months later:
    Owner: “who the fuck greenlit this band?”
    Agent: “you did. This is the Mott the Hoople, Free and King Crimson group.”
    Company owner: “really? You sure these guys aren’t from Arkansas?
     
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  7. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    Oh FFS I shoulda used blue font.
     
  8. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    You folks are sleeping on Wet Willie and also The Dixie Dregs.
     
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  9. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    "Weekend" by Wet Willie still sounds great
     
  10. CD Boogie

    CD Boogie Well-Known Member

    Black Crowes qualify in my mind, though they didn't record in the 1970s. They're from Marietta, Georgia and their music is very much a reflection of that Skynyrd/Allmans thing.
     
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  11. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    Yeah, I'd say the Crowes and a few others in recent years certainly are newer wave of Southern Rock.
     
  12. franticscribe

    franticscribe Well-Known Member

    Mine would be:

    Allman Brothers Band
    The Marshall Tucker Band
    Gov't Mule
    Tedeschi Trucks Band
     
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