Southern Rock
Allman Brothers Band: Getting Together With The Allman Brothers
Interview by June Harris, Hit Parader, September 1970
DUANE HIMSELF is the first to admit that his task with the Allman Brothers has been made easier by the success of the British blues-rock ...
Allman Brothers Band: The Allman Brothers Band: Rapping with Duane Allman and Berry Oakley
Interview by Jon Tiven, New Haven Rock Press, Winter 1970
DUANE ALLMAN and Berry Oakley are respectively, the guitarist and bassist for the Allman Brothers Band. Between shows at University of New Haven, I got ...
Allman Brothers Band: Idlewild South (Atco)
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, January 1971
A HAPPY and clean sound kicked off with the unison guitars of Duane Allman and Dicky Betts on 'Revival'. ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, October 1971
WET WILLIE is young five-man group originally from Mobile, Alabama, that's been touring with the Allman Brothers Band lately, and winning a bunch of new ...
Smith, Perkins & Smith: Smith, Perkins & Smith (Island)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, International Times, June 1972
I THINK I'M going crazy. Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Kossoff, Kirke, Tetsu, Rabbit, Fishbaugh, Fishbough, Zorn, Brewer, Shipley, Demick, Armstrong, Seals, Crofts, Scott, Ethridge, Barbata, ...
Allman Brothers Band: Snapshots of the South: The Allman Brothers and Capricorn Records
Profile and Interview by Ben Edmonds, Creem, November 1972
MAKING AN AIR APPROACH to Atlanta is like diving into a monstrous tossed salad. The land below is a fluffy carpet of complimentary greens which ...
Otis Redding, Allman Brothers Band: The Allman Brothers: A Rock Tragedy
Report and Interview by Roger St. Pierre, NME, December 1972
WHEN BERRY Oakley died two hours after crashing his motorcycle on November 11, another chapter was added to the succession of tragedy which seems to ...
Allman Brothers Band: The Allman Brothers: Brothers And Sisters
Review by Nick Kent, NME, August 1973
IT MUST have been just at the point where the Grateful Dead has started to tarnish their once peeless charisma as the magic band that ...
Black Oak Arkansas: When Rock & Roll Came to Arkansas
Essay by Greg Shaw, Creem, September 1973
A passel o' scraggly critters came outa the woodwork ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd's Ronnie Van Zant (1974)
Interview by Jim Esposito, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1974
The southern rock icon on 'Free Bird'; recording the first three albums; the band's poor backgrounds; and thoughts about music in general and guitar players in particular.
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Gregg Allman, Allman Brothers Band: Gregg Allman
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, January 1974
GREGG ALLMAN picked up an old Gibson acoustic guitar and allowed his nimble fingers to slide over the six new strings. He tuned it and ...
Allman Brothers Band: The Allman Bros. Band: Dead Or Alive?
Essay by Nick Kent, NME, February 1974
IS IT ENOUGH TO LOVE YOUR MOTHERS, HATE FAGGOTS AND RIDE A MOTOR CYCLE? WELL, PLAYING A LITTLE MUSIC OCCASIONALLY HELPS, SAYS NICK KENT, WITH ...
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, February 1974
DOWN ON COTTON Avenue in Macon, Georgia, lie the offices of Capricorn Records, slotted between a funeral parlour and a beauty salon that's anything but ...
Al Kooper, Lynyrd Skynyrd: Who The Hell Are Lynyrd Skynyrd?
Profile and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc and Music Echo, February 1974
LYNYRD SKYNYRD is, in fact, a used-car salesman somewhere in Florida. At least, he doesn't spell his name quite like that – the band had ...
Allman Brothers Band: Leavell Headed Allman
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, February 1974
PIANIST CHUCK Leavell is the least heralded member of the Allman Brothers Band, a musician first and a talker second. ...
Profile and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus Raves, March 1974
HIGH ON THE HOG – BLACK OAK ARKANSAS CELEBRATES SUCCESS. ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Al Kooper: Al Kooper: Sweetheart Of The South
Interview by John Tobler, Melody Maker, March 1974
AL KOOPER is presumably in accord with Bob Dylan more often than not, as his playing on some the latter's best albums, like Blonde On ...
Interview by Barbara Charone, Zoo World, April 1974
LYNYRD SKYNYRD are an alcohol band. Steeped in southern blooze, they create that perfect sleazy barroom atmosphere both in concert and on record. ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, July 1974
EVER SINCE the Allman Brothers came howling out of Macon, Gorgia, and Texas graciously gave Johnny Winter and Janis Joplin to the world, Southern rock ...
Review by Jim Esposito, Creem, September 1974
THE ONLY THING missing from Keep On Smilin' is one of Capricorn's "Support Southern Music" buttons on the jacket of that blind old black beggar ...
Black Oak Arkansas: Hot And Nasty
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, October 1974
ACTUALLY Atlantic are taking a hell of a chance with this album. In case you haven't yet glommed the cover in your local, it's a ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, December 1974
I DOUBT very much whether Lynyrd Skynyrd, those Southern rock and rollers who take the stage to the strains of a tape of 'Dixie', could ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Wally: Lynyrd Skynyrd/Wally: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Chris Salewicz, NME, December 1974
CLOSE ONE, you know. I mean, after Lynyrd Skynyrd had played their first few numbers it was decided that this might have to be a ...
Ozark Mountain Daredevils: It'll Shine When It Shines
Review by Max Bell, NME, January 1975
THINGS ARE STIRRING in Jefferson City, Missouri. It'll Shine When It Shines is The Ozark Mountain Daredevils' second album and mighty fine it is too. ...
Charlie Daniels Band, The: The Charlie Daniels Band: The South Rises Again
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, February 1975
Southern bands like the Allmans, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Wet Willie have smashed their way to the top of American rock. Now add a new name ...
Review by Max Bell, NME, April 1975
KANSAS ARE THE latest group to hoist the Dixie flag, though thankfully they don't seem anxious to broadcast the fact that "the South is gonna ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Nuthin' Fancy
Review by Chris Salewicz, NME, May 1975
WELL, IT LOOKS as though they're here to stay. ...
Atlanta Rhythm Section, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Al Kooper, Mose Jones: Southern Rock: Gone With The Trend
Report and Interview by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, July 1975
Al Kooper may not give a damn, but with Lynyrd Skynyrd hot and the Atlanta Rhythm Section burnin', Southern Music is rising again. ...
Review by Bob Fisher, NME, July 1975
ELVIN BISHOP'S place in the scheme of post-Beatles US Rock has been pretty much undervalued over the years. This is probably owing to his uncanny ...
Black Oak Arkansas Kick Up Their Heels In Europe
Review and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus, July 1975
SITTING IN a Holiday Inn, not in in Evansville or Bakersfield, but just a few minutes walk from Hyde Park in London, Jim Dandy Mangrum ...
Roger McGuinn - Roger McGuinn and Band
Review by Mick Farren, NME, August 1975
IT'S BEEN A fair old while since anyone pointed the finger at Roger McGuinn and accused him of pumping out high energy rock and roll. ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: I See The Bloodbath That Was Hamburg
Report by Tony Stewart, NME, October 1975
When a band start slashing each other's wrists before gigs you know they're confident. TONY STEWART applies the tourniquet to LYNYRD SKYNYRD on the eve ...
Outlaws, The: The Outlaws - The Outlaws
Review by Max Bell, NME, November 1975
CLIVE DAVIS COULD sell Chesty Morgan a subscription to Mark Eden. Consider previous adventures of his with Copperhead and the Rowan Brothers, two acts who ...
Allman Brothers Band: Beat The Devil: The Allman Brothers
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, December 1975
There is a land of the livingand a land of the deadand the bridge is love,the only survival, the only meaning ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Gimme Back My Bullets (MCA 2744)
Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, January 1976
FOR SUCH A great continent, America has given the outside world very few real rock and roll bands. ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, NME, February 1976
WE ALL KNOW about Lynyrd Skynyrd. As barroom brawlers go, they don't come quite as gross as these six Southern redneck bruisers wired on Coors, ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Hammersmith Odeon, London; Apollo Theatre, Glagow
Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, February 1976
IF YOU want to know just how good Skynyrd are, they're the rare band you wouldn't mind working for, just to watch the action every ...
Report by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, February 1976
KATE SIMON'S MOTHER used to warn her, "Katherine, beware of people who drink before two p.m." My mum advised me to keep that first glass ...
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, May 1976
THE MOST distinctive advance in American rock guitar of the last decade has been the so-called "southern" approach. Large groups of extremely talented pickers have ...
Outlaws, The: The Outlaws: Dixie Chickens
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, June 1976
CHARLIE WHITNEY sat on the Outlaws football club dressing room incessantly raving about their guitarist Hughie Thomason. "It ain't fair," Whitney said slightly intoxicated and ...
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, September 1976
"HI. Y'ALL COME in now..." Ronnie Van Zant, two minutes out of the sack, wears a stetson, strengthening the popular theory that he was born ...
Bonnie Bramlett: Kicking Out The Jams
Interview by Kris DiLorenzo, Aquarian Weekly, The, October 1976
Lunching with Bonnie Bramlett (a.k.a. "Holler Mouth") is no ordinary trip to the coffeeshop. In fact, an afternoon with Bonnie Bramlett is more like a ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Saturday Night Special
Report by Pete Makowski, Sounds, October 1976
"It's like throwing a bleedin' virgin into a bed of rampant nymphomaniacs," commented Pete Makowski, our jotter on the spot. Sis he lose his white ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: One More From the Road (MCA)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, December 1976
LYNYRD SKYNYRD: Does Their Conscience Bother THEM? ...
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, December 1976
YIHAAHS RANG in the ears when the cowpokes came to town on Saturday night. Huge beefy men burst out of their jeans and hammered away ...
Grinderswitch: Pullin' Together
Live Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, December 1976
I DIDN't see them live but I gather from the reports that Grinderswitch – Messrs Dru Lembar, Stephen Miller, Larry Howard, Joe Dan Petty and ...
Allman Brothers Band: The Death Of The Allman Brothers Band
Report and Interview by Michael Gross, Swank, 1977
LOOK INTO THE EYES of the citizens of Macon, Georgia, and the creeping fear shines through like a beacon. Eyes widen, then scrunch down to ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Pete Makowski, Sounds, February 1977
TO SOME people, kicking off a British tour in London is the equivalent of musical suicide. ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: The Wild Bunch
Report and Interview by Pete Makowski, Sounds, February 1977
Hey, You Shoulda Bin At The Trial!!! ...
Allman Brothers Band: The Allman Brothers: Wipe the Windows, Check the Oil, Dollar Gas
Review by Lester Bangs, Circus, February 1977
I MAY BE DEFICIENT but somehow I feel grateful for the existence of this Allman Brothers album. Unlike the sodden Win, Lose or Draw, which ...
Marshall Tucker Band, The: The Marshall Tucker Band: Carolina Dreams
Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, May 1977
I THINK the late great Duane Allman might turn in his grave if he heard this record. ...
Dickey Betts: Movin' On Out Of The Macon Mess
Report by Mick Farren, NME, June 1977
I GUESS it's fair to say that Dickey Betts was the one member of The Allman Brothers to come out of the convoluted saga of ...
Eleanor Grant: Look Out For Eleanor In '78
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, January 1978
ALTHOUGH AT present, the name of Eleanor Grant is barely known around the record buying brotherhood of the world, you only have to speak to ...
Allman Brothers Band: Allman Brothers Reform For LP, Tour
Report by Richard Wootton, Melody Maker, September 1978
THE FOUR SURVIVING members of the original Allman Brothers Band – Gregg Allman, Dickie Betts, Butch Trucks and Jai Johanny Johanson – have reformed for ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Skyrvyrd's First And…Last
Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, September 1978
ROCK 'N' ROLL REQUIEMS usually denigrate rather than enhance the reputation of the deceased, which is as sound a reason as any to approach this ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rossington Collins Band, The: Lynyrd Skynyrd: If I Leave Here Tomorrow
Retrospective by Pete Makowski, Sounds, March 1980
Dear Everyone,I would like to say how shocked and sorry I am at the deaths of Steve, Cassie and Ronnie. I know how it must ...
Rossington Collins Band, The, Lynyrd Skynyrd: The Rossington Collins Band
Profile and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Musician, February 1982
Southern Rock Survival Among the Alligators ...
Rossington Collins Band, The: The Rossington Collins Band: Born Again
Profile and Interview by Pete Makowski, Sounds, March 1982
AFTER SO much tragedy and so much pain the Skynyrd people are back on their feet again...almost. ...
Wet Willie: Kiel Center, St Louis
Live Review by Paul Yamada, Concert News, July 1984
DURING THE 60's, there was a huge flood of "local colour" bands, which had national hits, one national album, and then, disappeared from the face ...
Allman Brothers Band: The Allman Brothers: Dream
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, October 1989
THE STORY OF The Allman Brothers Band has been one of the great epics of rock 'n' roll, replete with all the Homeric ingredients of ...
Review by Jeremy Clarke, Q, November 1990
ON RECYCLER, ZZ Top jettison the hi-tech adventurism of Afterburner, their last album, released in 1985, which, despite the brilliance and wit of tracks like ...
Byrds, The: The Byrds: Box-Set
Review by Mark Cooper, Q, January 1991
PRIOR TO THIS exhaustive four-CD box set with its careful remixing, 17 previously unissued recordings, four new songs by three of the original band and ...
Black Crowes, The: The Black Crowes: Nod's As Good As A Wink To A Black Crowe
Report and Interview by Max Bell, Vox, September 1991
Currently America's hottest new Faces, The Black Crowes have made a huge name for themselves with just one ass-kickin' LP, mucho slagging off of "the ...
Gram Parsons: Ben Fong-Torres: Hickory Wind: The Life And Times Of Gram Parsons
Book Review by Mark Cooper, Q, November 1991
HE VIRTUALLY INVENTED country rock with The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers and was a major influence on the Stones of Sticky Fingers. He ...
Review by David Cavanagh, Q, June 1992
THERE IS already one ZZ Top compilation in the shops, and thereby hangs a tale. Entitled The Best Of ZZ Top, it was released in ...
Jim Dickinson, Alex Chilton: Jim Dickinson: Earth Father
Retrospective and Interview by Robert Gordon, MOJO, October 1994
Backwoods, Mississippi. Home to Jim Dickinson, the revered producer and professional redneck whose work spans the story of Southern music from Sun Records to Big ...
Black Crowes, The: The Black Crowes
Interview by Andy Gill, MOJO, January 1995
MUSIC SEEPS OUT of the streets in Memphis. It's everywhere, in bars and clubs, but also somehow just hanging in the air, almost as if ...
ZZ Top: Looking Back With Billy Gibbons
Interview by Alan Paul, Guitar School, March 1995
FORMED IN 1969, ZZ Top rode lascivious, raucous tunes like ‘Tush’ and ‘La Grange’ to stardom in the early and mid-Seventies, culminating in 1976 with ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: How The South Rose Again: The Soaring Flight and Tragic Fall of Lynyrd Skynyrd
Retrospective and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, MOJO, November 1997
THE DAY BEFORE THE SECOND MOST FAMOUS plane crash in rock history, the right engine of the 1948 Convair aircraft carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd backfired over ...
Black Crowes, The, Gov't Mule, Widespread Panic: Freebirds All: Southern Rock's Undying Appeal
Overview by Kandia Crazy Horse, Village Voice, December 1998
SOUTHERN ROCK'S masterworks show this century a viable southern heroism: the quest to overcome the dread of Jim Crow and the pall of ruined empire. ...
Interview by Steve Roeser, Rock's Backpages Audio, Spring 1998
From the clubs of Tulsa, via Los Angeles, Phil Spector and the Shelter People, to Nashville and a return to country roots — Leon Russell remembers, well, some of it.
File format: mp3; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 52.2mb, total interview length: 58' 08" sound quality: * (phone interview)
Black Crowes, The: Black Magic From The Amen Corner: The Black Crowes’ voodoo resurrection
Overview by Kandia Crazy Horse, Creative Loafing, January 1999
Jesus of Nazareth Chris Robinson ain't. Some detractors drew a purely visual comparison along these lines in recent years, when the Black Crowes' singer/songwriter wore ...
Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, May 2000
THE ALBUM cover's a telegraph pole, wires strung across the horizon. A shoe's been tied to one, drunkard's wit. The title? Sad, But Familiar. Welcome ...
Dickey Betts & Great Southern: BB King's Blues Club, New York
Live Review by Kandia Crazy Horse, PopMatters, June 2002
THE ALLMAN Brothers Band has been the central musical group of my life, their œuvre most vital to my worldview. ...
Drive-By Truckers: Decoration Day (New West)
Review by Kandia Crazy Horse, Village Voice, June 2003
COME HEAR ME real well, boogie chillun, for I'ze 'bout to spin this chronicle of a death foretold. The death of truth, justice, and the ...
Drive-By Truckers: The Mouth of the South
Profile and Interview by Eric Weisbard, Spin, July 2003
The Drive-By Truckers are hard-ass punk rockers from Alabama by way of Athens, Georgia. They drink too much. They love Lynyrd Skynyrd. And their Southern ...
Drive-By Truckers: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Redneck Warrior Poets of Rock 'n' Roll
Profile and Interview by Steve LaBate, Paste, 2004
TEN, NINE... This is a story about rock 'n' roll. ...
Kings of Leon: A-Ha Shake Heartbreak
Review by Ben Thompson, Observer, The, October 2004
AS WITH SO many of the best second albums - from Roxy Music's For Your Pleasure to Dizzee Rascal's Showtime - the first time you ...
Jerry Lynn Williams: The Lone Ranger: Jerry Lynn Williams
Retrospective by Bill Bentley, Austin Chronicle, January 2006
You say you want it and you want it bad And that you'd sacrifice all you ever had And that you'd be happy instead of ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Sultans Of Swamp
Retrospective and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, May 2006
LORD KNOWS, Lynyrd Skynyrd had seen it coming. On the flight from Florida to South Carolina, the band's Convair 240 tour plane had begun spewing ...
Kings of Leon: Kings Of Leon: Only By The Night
Review and Interview by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, October 2008
WHEN THE KINGS Of Leon recorded their Holy Roller Novocaine EP in 2002, they were musical novices ranging in age from 15 to 22, but ...
Kings of Leon: Only by the Night
Review by Roy Trakin, Hits, October 2008
IT'S NO MISTAKE that two of America's most promising rock groups are from the South, steeped in the area's blend of goth, ghosts and guilt. ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Allman Brothers Band: Alabama Shakes: The Saga of Southern Rock
Comment by Barney Hoskyns, Guardian, The, April 2012
IT WAS ONLY a matter of time before BBC4 green-lit a Friday night documentary about the sub-genre Southern Rock. The subject is irresistible to connoisseurs ...
Interview by Pete Makowski, Rock's Backpages, October 2012
"TWO FLAT TIRES on a muddy road. Thick and Throbbing. The rhythm section from Hell and holding on strong." ...
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