It’s one of the most famous countdowns in rock and roll. The “1,2,3,4” leads into the iconic riff that anchors the Lynyrd Skynyrd hit “Sweet Home Alabama.” The song has been streamed ...

Sitting near the center of “Southern Rock Opera,” the double-album breakthrough that placed Drive-By Truckers on the rock ‘n’ roll map, are a pair of Patterson Hood songs that speak ...

We still have those people that will be southern bands.” Southern rock fans will get to see Marshall Tucker at shows across the country throughout the rest of 2020.

A bunch of longhaired Florida boys and a Black man from Mississippi, The Allman Brothers Band formed in Jacksonville on March 26, 1969, on their way to launching the Southern rock movement and ...

5. Drive-By Truckers. Maybe this list is primarily inhabited by newcomers, but you just can’t write something called “Artists Making Great Southern Rock Right Now ” without including the ...

Southern rock died as a distinct genre in the 1980s, but the raw, scruffy spirit of the music made by groups like Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers is alive and well in contemporary country.

If those boys came out in the 70s, they’d be Southern rock. Look at Gretchen Wilson. If she came out in the ’70s she’d be the queen of Southern rock,” Johnny Van Zant said.

The first rock show ever saw was Cinderella in Columbus, Georgia at the Columbus Municipal Auditorium. That was 1988. Working with Dave Cobb, it sounds like a great fit for you guys.

Call it the big bang of Southern rock: the convergence of forces that led two brothers, Duane and Gregg Allman, to convene in Jacksonville, Fla., on March 26, 1969, for a jam session that would ...

If you’re going to do Southern rock right, you probably need to look at the past masters: bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers or even modern day practitioners like Blackberry Smoke ...

Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (WJW) – Brit Turner, drummer and founding member of the Southern rock band Blackberry Smoke, died at the age of 57.