Wet Willie: Wet Willie
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 friends. ...

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 be ...

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 the ...

Allman Explosion
Report by Ritchie Yorke, NME, September 1973
IT'S THE speed of the thing that's been most memorable – the way the Brothers And Sisters album literally exploded across North America. Within the first ...

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 cursed ...

Southern Rock: Under The Sign Of Capricorn
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 beautiful ...

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 AN ...

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. ...

Macon Georgia
Report and Interview by Ritchie Yorke, ZigZag, March 1974
THIS HUGE OLD Southern mansion has seen much better days. The dozen giant columns which surrounded it are flecked by peeling paint, grimly revealing the grey ...

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 Blonde ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Lynyrd Skynyrd/Wet Willie: Drippin' Wet/The Marshall Tucker Band: The Marshall Tucker Band
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 has ...

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 demolition ...

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 have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kansas - Kansas
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 rise ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Nuthin' Fancy
Review by Chris Salewicz, NME, May 1975
WELL, IT LOOKS as though they're here to ...

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 ...

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 managed ...

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 ...

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, Colombian ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd
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 at ...

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 suitable ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Skyn Flick
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 complete ...

Marshall Tucker Band, Grinderswitch, Bonnie Bramlett: Hammersmith Odeon, London
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 at ...

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 a ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd: The Wild Bunch
Report and Interview by Peter Makowski, Sounds, February 1977
Hey, You Shoulda Bin At The ...

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 apparently ...

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 death, ...

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 an ...

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 album, ...

The Rossington Collins Band
Profile and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Musician, February 1982
Southern Rock Survival Among the Alligators ...

The Rossington Collins Band: Born Again
Profile and Interview by Peter Makowski, Sounds, March 1982
AFTER SO much tragedy and so much pain the Skynyrd people are back on their feet ...

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 of ...

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 love, ...

ZZ Top: Recycler
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 'Planet ...

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 over ...

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 discovered ...

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 the ...

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 the ...

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 Lakeland, ...

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. ...

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 Redneck ...

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, The Observer, 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 hear ...

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 orange ...

Kings Of Leon: Only By The Night
Review 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 they ...

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. ...