Southern Rock
Various Artists
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- The Basics
Gregg Allman once said the moniker Southern rock is, "a bit redundant; it's like calling it 'rock rock'". Regardless, the Allman Brothers Band were the kings of Southern rock, and with their signature country rock ballad "Melissa" they offered a counterpoint to the scene's tough-as-leather, good ole boy bravado. The second of Southern rock's titans, Lynyrd Skynyrd, cranked it up several notches with "Sweet Home Alabama" — a spit n' sawdust masterpiece that takes a pop at Neil Young in the wake of "Southern Man" — while ZZ Top delivered their trademark blend of barrelhouse boogie-blooze and tumbleweed-dry wit in 1973 with "La Grange": their one-chord celebration of an infamous bordello.
Southern Rock creates solid outposts on the post-'70s landscape, in Next Steps.£21.56 The Basics
Name Artist Time Price 1 Melissa The Allman Brothers Band 3:54 £0.99 View In iTunes 2 La Grange ZZ Top 3:52 £0.99 View In iTunes 3 Hard to Handle The Black Crowes 3:07 £0.99 View In iTunes 4 The Devil Went Down to Georgia Charlie Daniels Band 3:54 £0.79 View In iTunes 5 Sex On Fire Kings of Leon 3:23 £0.99 View In iTunes 6 Black Betty Ram Jam 3:57 £0.99 View In iTunes 7 The House Is Rockin' Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble 2:24 £0.99 View In iTunes 8 Fooled Around and Fell In Love Elvin Bishop 4:34 £0.99 View In iTunes 9 Copperhead Road Steve Earle 4:30 £0.99 View In iTunes 10 Saving Grace Tom Petty 3:46 £0.79 View In iTunes 11 (Don't Go Back to) Rockville R.E.M. 4:57 £0.99 View In iTunes 12 The Funeral Band of Horses 5:22 £0.79 View In iTunes 13 Keep Your Hands to Yourself The Georgia Satellites 3:26 £0.99 View In iTunes 14 Highly Suspicious My Morning Jacket 3:04 £0.79 View In iTunes 15 Bad to the Bone George Thorogood & The Destroyers 4:50 £0.99 View In iTunes 16 Dallas Joe Ely 3:27 £0.79 View In iTunes 17 Absolutely Sweet Marie Jason & The Scorchers 3:13 £0.79 View In iTunes 18 Flirtin' With Disaster Molly Hatchet 4:59 £0.99 View In iTunes 19 Spooky Atlanta Rhythm Section 4:59 £0.79 View In iTunes 20 Ain't Life Grand Widespread Panic 5:27 £0.99 View In iTunes 21 Smokin' In the Boys Room Brownsville Station 2:58 £0.79 View In iTunes 22 Going in the Right Direction Robert Randolph & The Family Band 3:32 £0.79 View In iTunes 23 Livin' On the Open Road Duane Allman & Delaney Bonnie & Friends 3:04 £0.79 View In iTunes 24 Midnight Rider Gregg Allman 4:28 £0.79 View In iTunes Total: 24 Songs - Next Steps
Donnie Van Zant, brother of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Ronnie, followed his kin into the family business, forming country-fried proto-arena rockers .38 Special, whose power-chord-fuelled "Wild-Eyed Southern Boys" (1981) owes as much to Boston as to any place south of the Mason-Dixon line. A second less-famous brother, Jimmie Vaughn, proved that the Fabulous Thunderbirds, with their chunky, rockin' blues, were "Tuff Enuff" to compete with the '80s headbangers and new-wave mousse abusers. And on "Ronnie and Neil" (2001), Drive-By Truckers singer Patterson Hood's whiskey-and-bleach-chaser voice rages about two of his heroes: Skynyrd's leader and "Southern Man's" Canadian writer.
We dredge up more from Southern Rock's thick swamp, in Deep Cuts.£20.56 Next Steps
Name Artist Time Price 1 Dengue Woman Blues Jimmie Vaughan 6:23 £0.99 View In iTunes 2 Ronnie and Neil Drive-By Truckers 4:52 £0.79 View In iTunes 3 High On a Mountain Top Marty Stuart 4:03 £0.79 View In iTunes 4 Memphis in the Meantime John Hiatt 3:59 £0.79 View In iTunes 5 Funk #49 The James Gang 3:54 £0.99 View In iTunes 6 National Talk Like a Pirate Day Lambchop 5:59 £0.79 View In iTunes 7 Someday Baby North Mississippi Allstars 2:30 £0.79 View In iTunes 8 Floating Vibes Surfer Blood 3:54 £0.59 View In iTunes 9 Country House Shuffle Dixie Dregs 4:15 £0.79 View In iTunes 10 Here Without You 3 Doors Down 3:57 £0.99 View In iTunes 11 Giving It All Away Dead Confederate & J Mascis 4:49 £0.99 View In iTunes 12 Movin' the Country BR5-49 3:49 £0.79 View In iTunes 13 Tuff Enuff The Fabulous Thunderbirds 3:22 £0.99 View In iTunes 14 Wild-Eyed Southern Boys 38 Special 4:17 £0.79 View In iTunes 15 Pickin' the Blues Grinderswitch 9:47 £0.79 View In iTunes 16 Angelina Billy Bob Thornton 3:26 £0.99 View In iTunes 17 If You Want to Get to Heaven The Ozark Mountain Daredevils 3:05 £0.99 View In iTunes 18 Jim Dandy Black Oak Arkansas 2:41 £0.79 View In iTunes 19 Going Through the Motions Leftover Salmon 4:36 £0.79 View In iTunes 20 (Ghost) Riders In the Sky The Outlaws 5:51 £0.99 View In iTunes 21 Own Side Caitlin Rose 3:56 £0.79 View In iTunes 22 Slackjaw Jezebel Gov't Mule 5:25 £0.79 View In iTunes 23 Highway Song Blackfoot 7:32 £0.79 View In iTunes 24 Don't Misunderstand Me Rossington Collins Band 3:56 £0.99 View In iTunes Total: 24 Songs - Deep Cuts
Like Charlie Daniels had promised, "The South's gonna do it again." While the battle-scarred Allmans and Skynyrd staggered into the '90s as original members wore away like snakeskin, a young breed seized the rebel flag and flew it high. With 2004's "Mojo Box" Carolina's favourite chicken-flinging party band, Southern Culture on the Skids, took surf music, dropped it into the swamp, and gave it a rockabilly-style duck's arse hairdo. Going the other way, with one finger on the Southern Rock rewind button, we get to the roots of the genre with psychedelic blues band the Moving Sidewalks, best known as the outfit in which ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons cut his teeth: check out "You Make Me Shake".
£21.55 Deep Cuts
Parental AdvisoryName Artist Time Price 1 Scarred But Smarter Drivin' n' Cryin' 2:58 £0.79 View In iTunes 2 Sometimes It Takes Balls to Be a Woman Elizabeth Cook 3:17 £0.79 View In iTunes 3 The Hardest Thing Van Zant 4:01 £0.99 View In iTunes 4 Big River The Secret Sisters 4:09 £0.79 View In iTunes 5 Duane's Tune The Dickey Betts Band 5:56 £0.99 View In iTunes 6 Just Trouble Allen Collins Band 3:57 £0.99 View In iTunes 7 The Horse I Rode In On Rich Hopkins and Luminarios 4:08 £0.79 View In iTunes 8 Electric Worry Clutch 5:14 £0.79 View In iTunes 9 You Make Me Shake The Moving Sidewalks 3:01 £0.79 View In iTunes 10 Old Monteagle & Muscadine (Tennessee Part 1) Hans Chew 2:58 £0.79 View In iTunes 11 Long Hard Ride The Marshall Tucker Band 3:45 £0.79 View In iTunes 12 Ragged As the Road Reckless Kelly 3:32 £0.99 View In iTunes 13 CleanShame On Me The Bottle Rockets 3:42 £0.79 View In iTunes 14 I Don't Need No Doctor New Riders of the Purple Sage 3:06 £0.99 View In iTunes 15 Lonely Train Black Stone Cherry 3:50 £0.79 View In iTunes 16 Something to Hold Onto Reigning Sound 3:12 £0.79 View In iTunes 17 Love Rustler Delbert McClinton 3:32 £0.99 View In iTunes 18 The Viper Bloodkin 7:35 £0.79 View In iTunes 19 Dixie Rock Wet Willie 5:11 £0.99 View In iTunes 20 Trapped Under The Ice Cadillac Sky 2:52 £0.99 View In iTunes 21 Mojo Box Southern Culture On the Skids 3:24 £0.99 View In iTunes 22 Human Cannonball (Live) Webb Wilder 4:33 £0.79 View In iTunes 23 ExplicitShe Told Him You're a Good Man Kevn Kinney 4:17 £0.79 View In iTunes 24 Three Birds James Apollo 2:45 £0.79 View In iTunes 25 Come On Southern Bitch 5:38 £0.79 View In iTunes Total: 25 Songs - Complete Set
As the Woodstock nation hoofed it on back to its home territories, a sound as Southern as moonshine and hound dogs emerged out of Macon, Georgia, headquarters to Capricorn Records. Named for its founders' zodiac sign, Capricorn hung out the yellow porch light that attracted the Allman Brothers, the Marshall Tucker Band, Elvin Bishop, Wet Willie, the Dixie Dregs, and a double-wide trailerful of others. Along with Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top, and a few other scrappy renegades, they defined the gator-hide-tough sound of Southern Rock. Fuzz-wracked guitars snarled over a boogified blues backbeat, as Jack Daniel's-drenched vocalists goaded their audience to revel in their rebel culture the way a hog rolls in mud. These Essentials take you from those beginnings right through to tracks from modern southern-flavoured rockers like My Morning Jacket, Band of Horses and Kings of Leon.
£63.67 Complete Set
Parental AdvisoryName Artist Time Price 1 Melissa The Allman Brothers Band 3:54 £0.99 View In iTunes 2 La Grange ZZ Top 3:52 £0.99 View In iTunes 3 Hard to Handle The Black Crowes 3:07 £0.99 View In iTunes 4 The Devil Went Down to Georgia Charlie Daniels Band 3:54 £0.79 View In iTunes 5 Sex On Fire Kings of Leon 3:23 £0.99 View In iTunes 6 Black Betty Ram Jam 3:57 £0.99 View In iTunes 7 The House Is Rockin' Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble 2:24 £0.99 View In iTunes 8 Fooled Around and Fell In Love Elvin Bishop 4:34 £0.99 View In iTunes 9 Copperhead Road Steve Earle 4:30 £0.99 View In iTunes 10 Saving Grace Tom Petty 3:46 £0.79 View In iTunes 11 (Don't Go Back to) Rockville R.E.M. 4:57 £0.99 View In iTunes 12 The Funeral Band of Horses 5:22 £0.79 View In iTunes 13 Keep Your Hands to Yourself The Georgia Satellites 3:26 £0.99 View In iTunes 14 Highly Suspicious My Morning Jacket 3:04 £0.79 View In iTunes 15 Bad to the Bone George Thorogood & The Destroyers 4:50 £0.99 View In iTunes 16 Dallas Joe Ely 3:27 £0.79 View In iTunes 17 Absolutely Sweet Marie Jason & The Scorchers 3:13 £0.79 View In iTunes 18 Flirtin' With Disaster Molly Hatchet 4:59 £0.99 View In iTunes 19 Spooky Atlanta Rhythm Section 4:59 £0.79 View In iTunes 20 Ain't Life Grand Widespread Panic 5:27 £0.99 View In iTunes 21 Smokin' In the Boys Room Brownsville Station 2:58 £0.79 View In iTunes 22 Going in the Right Direction Robert Randolph & The Family Band 3:32 £0.79 View In iTunes 23 Livin' On the Open Road Duane Allman & Delaney Bonnie & Friends 3:04 £0.79 View In iTunes 24 Midnight Rider Gregg Allman 4:28 £0.79 View In iTunes 25 Dengue Woman Blues Jimmie Vaughan 6:23 £0.99 View In iTunes 26 Ronnie and Neil Drive-By Truckers 4:52 £0.79 View In iTunes 27 High On a Mountain Top Marty Stuart 4:03 £0.79 View In iTunes 28 Memphis in the Meantime John Hiatt 3:59 £0.79 View In iTunes 29 Funk #49 The James Gang 3:54 £0.99 View In iTunes 30 National Talk Like a Pirate Day Lambchop 5:59 £0.79 View In iTunes 31 Someday Baby North Mississippi Allstars 2:30 £0.79 View In iTunes 32 Floating Vibes Surfer Blood 3:54 £0.59 View In iTunes 33 Country House Shuffle Dixie Dregs 4:15 £0.79 View In iTunes 34 Here Without You 3 Doors Down 3:57 £0.99 View In iTunes 35 Giving It All Away Dead Confederate & J Mascis 4:49 £0.99 View In iTunes 36 Movin' the Country BR5-49 3:49 £0.79 View In iTunes 37 Tuff Enuff The Fabulous Thunderbirds 3:22 £0.99 View In iTunes 38 Wild-Eyed Southern Boys 38 Special 4:17 £0.79 View In iTunes 39 Pickin' the Blues Grinderswitch 9:47 £0.79 View In iTunes 40 Angelina Billy Bob Thornton 3:26 £0.99 View In iTunes 41 If You Want to Get to Heaven The Ozark Mountain Daredevils 3:05 £0.99 View In iTunes 42 Jim Dandy Black Oak Arkansas 2:41 £0.79 View In iTunes 43 Going Through the Motions Leftover Salmon 4:36 £0.79 View In iTunes 44 (Ghost) Riders In the Sky The Outlaws 5:51 £0.99 View In iTunes 45 Own Side Caitlin Rose 3:56 £0.79 View In iTunes 46 Slackjaw Jezebel Gov't Mule 5:25 £0.79 View In iTunes 47 Highway Song Blackfoot 7:32 £0.79 View In iTunes 48 Don't Misunderstand Me Rossington Collins Band 3:56 £0.99 View In iTunes 49 Scarred But Smarter Drivin' n' Cryin' 2:58 £0.79 View In iTunes 50 Sometimes It Takes Balls to Be a Woman Elizabeth Cook 3:17 £0.79 View In iTunes 51 The Hardest Thing Van Zant 4:01 £0.99 View In iTunes 52 Big River The Secret Sisters 4:09 £0.79 View In iTunes 53 Duane's Tune The Dickey Betts Band 5:56 £0.99 View In iTunes 54 Just Trouble Allen Collins Band 3:57 £0.99 View In iTunes 55 The Horse I Rode In On Rich Hopkins and Luminarios 4:08 £0.79 View In iTunes 56 Electric Worry Clutch 5:14 £0.79 View In iTunes 57 You Make Me Shake The Moving Sidewalks 3:01 £0.79 View In iTunes 58 Old Monteagle & Muscadine (Tennessee Part 1) Hans Chew 2:58 £0.79 View In iTunes 59 Long Hard Ride The Marshall Tucker Band 3:45 £0.79 View In iTunes 60 Ragged As the Road Reckless Kelly 3:32 £0.99 View In iTunes 61 CleanShame On Me The Bottle Rockets 3:42 £0.79 View In iTunes 62 I Don't Need No Doctor New Riders of the Purple Sage 3:06 £0.99 View In iTunes 63 Lonely Train Black Stone Cherry 3:50 £0.79 View In iTunes 64 Something to Hold Onto Reigning Sound 3:12 £0.79 View In iTunes 65 Love Rustler Delbert McClinton 3:32 £0.99 View In iTunes 66 The Viper Bloodkin 7:35 £0.79 View In iTunes 67 Dixie Rock Wet Willie 5:11 £0.99 View In iTunes 68 Trapped Under The Ice Cadillac Sky 2:52 £0.99 View In iTunes 69 Mojo Box Southern Culture On the Skids 3:24 £0.99 View In iTunes 70 Human Cannonball (Live) Webb Wilder 4:33 £0.79 View In iTunes 71 ExplicitShe Told Him You're a Good Man Kevn Kinney 4:17 £0.79 View In iTunes 72 Three Birds James Apollo 2:45 £0.79 View In iTunes 73 Come On Southern Bitch 5:38 £0.79 View In iTunes Total: 73 Songs
Customer Reviews
No Little Feat
Sad that there is no room in this collection for Little Feat who were surely some of the foremost southern rock bands around. Come on iTunes, include them.
Mediocre
Seems a bit half baked really. And where is the Lynyrd Skynyrd?
