Southern Rock
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Allman Brothers Band: The Allman Brothers Band
Special Feature by Miller Francis Jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 19 May 1969
Upon first seeing the Allman Brothers Band, an interracial rock and roll band from the heart of segregated, reactionary Georgia not only calling themselves brothers, ...
Hampton Grease Band: The Hampton Grease Band: Suck Rock
Profile and Interview by Miller Francis jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 13 October 1969
"Give me a gun, and I'll blow your fucking head off!" — Bruce Hampton ...
Live Review by Miller Francis Jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 27 October 1969
FRIDAY AFTERNOON was almost frightening — all those big names, the abruptness of the pop festival's appearance, the overall speculative nature of this ambitious musical ...
Hampton Grease Band: Georgian Terrace Ballroom, Atlanta GA
Live Review by Miller Francis Jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 1 December 1969
THREE TURKEY TRIPS ...
Allman Brothers Band, Ten Wheel Drive: Allman Bros., Ten Wheel Drive at the Whisky
Profile by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 24 January 1970
THE ALLMAN Bros. Band and Ten Wheel Drive, who will be co-featured at the Whisky A Go Go through Sunday, are respectable entries in their ...
Report by Miller Francis Jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 30 March 1970
SANTANA AND the Allman Brothers Band flew right into a hornet's nest last week when they showed up to play at the Municipal Auditorium: there ...
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: Idlewild South (Atco Capricorn SD 33-342)
Review by Miller Francis Jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 9 November 1970
WHAT A RELIEF to hear the new Allman Brothers album! When they played in the park a few weeks ago, everything was beginning to sound ...
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, Otis Redding: Phil Walden (1971)
Interview by Charlie Gillett, Rock's Backpages audio, 1971
It's 1971, and the Allmans are on the rise, Jimmy Carter is in the Governor's Mansion, and Otis is four-years-dead: Capricorn man Phil Walden and pals look back at Otis, the MGs, and discuss race and the South with remarkable frankness.
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Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 23 January 1971
Bros across the ocean ...
Allman Brothers Band: Idlewild South (Atco)
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 30 January 1971
A HAPPY and clean sound kicked off with the unison guitars of Duane Allman and Dicky Betts on 'Revival'. ...
Allman Brothers Band: The Allman Brothers Band: What Southern Boys Can Do With Rock
Profile and Interview by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 February 1971
THE SOUTH is the fatherland of rock. Though not specifically indigenous to that area, rock's basic roots are steeped in the musical lore and tradition ...
The Dixie Flyers, Rita Coolidge: The Dixie Flyers
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 15 May 1971
THEY'VE BEEN called the best rhythm section in the States — don't ask me who called them that, but I figure the guy who did ...
Allman Brothers Band: Top Tunes: The Allman Brothers Band
Interview by Michael Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 7 August 1971
SOME BANDS are meant to be recorded live, outside of the somewhat sterile studio environment and in front of an audience. ...
Allman Brothers Band: The Allman Brothers Band: Allman Brothers at the Fillmore East (Atlantic)
Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 18 September 1971
QUESTION: GIVEN 76 minutes 26 seconds of the day to do sweet flaming all, what would you do (a) attend one and a bit funerals ...
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 9 October 1971
Driving Blues Into Your Soul ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 14 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 ...
Fanny, Wet Willie: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles, CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 October 1971
Fanny Rock Group in Engagement at Whisky ...
Allman Brothers Band: At Fillmore East (Atlantic T659005, £3.45)
Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 13 November 1971
WITH THE current output of albums at saturation point, it is extremely hard for a reviewer to devote more than just one brief hearing to ...
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 22 April 1972
TALKING TO the Allman Brothers at their overnight camp in a palatial hotel in Hollywood, it soon became obvious that everyone still thinks and talks ...
Little Feat, Osibisa: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 1972
FEW INDEED are the groups whose emergence has been heralded by more glowing reviews than Little Feat. It's my guess, though, that few indeed who ...
Smith, Perkins & Smith: Smith, Perkins & Smith (Island)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, International Times, 19 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, ...
Black Oak Arkansas: If An Angel Came To See You, Would You Make Her Feel At Home? (Atlantic SD-7008)
Review by Metal Mike Saunders, Rolling Stone, 20 July 1972
BLACK OAK Arkansas have now blown off three first sides in a row, and that's not even counting their undistinguished album on Stax hack in ...
Jim Dickinson: James Luther Dickinson: Dixie Fried (Atlantic 8299)
Review by Gene Sculatti, Fusion, August 1972
UP TO YOUR ears in sessionmen gone solo? More than fed up with Russell/Nix-type Southern boys? Bludgeoned to insensitivity by Kinney Product? Well, James Luther ...
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 ...
Allman Brothers Band, Otis Redding: The Allman Brothers: A Rock Tragedy
Report and Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 9 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 ...
Live Review by Jim Esposito, Rock, 26 February 1973
ALMOST EVERYTHING about Rock & Roll Nine was good in some ways and bad in others. Celebrated on an isolated raceway in the swampy boondocks ...
Allman Brothers Band, Wet Willie: Allman Brothers, Wet Willie: Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati, Ohio
Live Review by Richard Riegel, Phonograph Record, March 1973
DON'T KNOW how it is up in those choice stageside seats you pro critics reputedly get your asses greased with, but auditing a rock concert ...
Live Review by John Swenson, The Village Voice, 9 August 1973
It was about music too ...
Allman Brothers Band: The Allman Brothers: Brothers And Sisters
Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 18 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 ...
Allman Brothers Band: The Allmans are to America now what the Grateful Dead were in '67
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 25 August 1973
NOBODY TALKS at all about the deaths. Gregg seems too spacey, anyway, detached and oblivious behind his shades; maybe a few brief nods of acknowledgement ...
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 ...
Allman Brothers Band: Hot Off The Wire: The Allman Brothers Soar On
Report by uncredited writer, Creem, September 1973
It's not just survival. It's a way of life. ...
The Charlie Daniels Band: Charlie Daniels: Writer Rides High on 'Uneasy Rider'
Interview by Ian Dove, The New York Times, 5 September 1973
PICKING ITS way carefully across the playlists of the music radio stations is a song titled 'Uneasy Rider', performed by its composer Charlie Daniels. The ...
Allman Brothers Band: Allman Explosion
Report by Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 8 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 ...
ZZ Top: Tres Hombres (London, Import)
Review by Bob Woffinden, New Musical Express, 8 September 1973
THERE'S A huge spread of all-American grub dominating the sleeve of this album. ZZ Top are a three-piece Southern fried chicken band from Texas, and ...
Allman Brothers Band: Capricorn Bar BQ: Bill Graham Plays Ball In Macon
Report by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 13 September 1973
WOULD YOU drive 600 miles through the midsummer heat of Florida and Georgia to scoff some free rubs and red hot chicken at the Allman ...
Allman Brothers Band: The Allman Brothers Band: Brothers And Sisters (Capricorn CP0111)
Review by Arthur Levy, Zoo World, 27 September 1973
UNTIL ABOUT two years ago the Allman Brothers Band existed in a vacuum whose bounds were conveniently defined by the Mason-Dixon line. Before them was ...
Allman Brothers Band: The Allman Brothers Band: Forum, Inglewood CA
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 29 September 1973
Allmans: hot rockers ...
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.
File format: mp3; file size: 27.4mb; Interview length: 29' 56"; sound quality: **
Allman Brothers Band, Gregg Allman: Gregg Allman
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 26 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 ...
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 2 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 ...
Allman Brothers Band: The Allman Bros. Band: Dead Or Alive?
Essay by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 2 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 ...
Allman Brothers Band: Leavell Headed Allman
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 16 February 1974
PIANIST CHUCK Leavell is the least heralded member of the Allman Brothers Band, a musician first and a talker second. ...
Al Kooper, Lynyrd Skynyrd: Who The Hell Are Lynyrd Skynyrd?
Profile and Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 16 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 ...
Profile and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus Raves, March 1974
HIGH ON THE HOG – BLACK OAK ARKANSAS CELEBRATES SUCCESS. ...
Allman Brothers Band: 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 ...
Al Kooper, Lynyrd Skynyrd: Al Kooper: Sweetheart Of The South
Interview by John Tobler, Melody Maker, 2 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 ...
Live Review by Dan Nooger, The Village Voice, 7 March 1974
FANNED FIRES ...
Interview by Barbara Charone, Zoo World, 25 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. ...
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 1974
THE MARSHALL Tucker Band has in a relatively short time picked up a large enough following to achieve headline status, but its Santa Monica Civic ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 6 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, Medicine Head: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 28 September 1974
Pure hokum — but damn fine! ...
Black Oak Arkansas: "I don't need no thirty tons of drums to play heavy..."
Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 28 September 1974
Tommy Aldridge, drummer with Black Oak Arkansas, talks to Karl Dallas ...
Black Oak Arkansas: Hot And Nasty
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 19 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 ...
Atlanta Rhythm Section: Third Annual Pipe Dream (Polydor PD 6027)
Review by Bruce Malamut, Crawdaddy!, November 1974
A COMBINATION of inventive writing and consummate musicianship like this hasn't been heard from out of the South since the Allman's Idlewild South (still unsurpassed ...
Black Oak Arkansas: Street Party (Atco)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, November 1974
H.L. MENCKEN once wrote that he could toss an egg out the window of a Pullman car anywhere in America and splatter a yokel. It's ...
Report by Ian MacDonald, Creem, November 1974
SITUATION UNCHANGED. Still hanging on in here, waiting for something to happen. (Wait — was that a heart-grazing lobe-grinder of a new single from Mick, ...
Gregg Allman: Felt Forum, New York NY
Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 14 December 1974
Greg — mining the blues ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Wally: Lynyrd Skynyrd/Wally: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 21 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 ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 21 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 ...
Charlie Daniels Band: Rural electrification hits S.F.
Report and Interview by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 23 December 1974
BIG CHARLIE Daniels brought his roaring good Tennessee mountain-rock 'n' roll band through Winterland over the weekend. ...
Interview by Dan Nooger, Circus Raves, January 1975
IT WAS six o'clock on a heat-dripping Monday morning and the hundreds of youthful boogieoids gathered in front of Spartanburg's largest record store were ready ...
Ozark Mountain Daredevils: It'll Shine When It Shines
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 11 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. ...
Overview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 18 January 1975
"Oh yeah, who says?" asks a sceptical ROY CARR who, after swigging hard on the Confederacy's brew of Redneck Rebel Rock, remains stubbornly unintoxicated. ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: My Top Ten: Lynyrd Skynyrd
Interview by Michael Gray, Let It Rock, February 1975
Compiled on coach-trips and in hotel bars by Michael Gray ...
Live Review by Ian Dove, The New York Times, 2 February 1975
SOUTH ROCKS AGAIN AT MUSIC ACADEMY ...
Charlie Daniels, Lynyrd Skynyrd: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Charlie Daniels Band: Academy of Music, New York NY
Live Review by Wayne Robins, The Village Voice, 10 February 1975
Lynyrd Skynyrd's Closet Crackers ...
The Charlie Daniels Band: The South Rises Again
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 22 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, New Musical Express, 26 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, New Musical Express, 3 May 1975
WELL, IT LOOKS as though they're here to stay. ...
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 ...
Review by Bob Fisher, New Musical Express, 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 ...
Al Kooper, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Lynyrd Skynyrd, 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. ...
Roger McGuinn - Roger McGuinn and Band
Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 30 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. ...
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 8 September 1975
Lynyrd Skynyrd Predictable ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: De Doelen, Rotterdam, Holland
Live Review by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 25 October 1975
Lynyrd skynful ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: I See The Bloodbath That Was Hamburg
Report by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 25 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 ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Sutherland Brothers and Quiver: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 1 November 1975
IF PROOF was needed that Lynyrd Skynyrd have broken Britain's back, then a visit to Hammersmith Odeon on Monday night would have persuaded the harshest ...
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 1 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 ...
Travis Wammack: Not for Sale (Capricorn CP-0162)
Review by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 6 November 1975
NO DOUBT about it, Travis Wammack is a terrific guitarist — flashy, instinctive and intelligent. On a club stage with a hot band, he's probably ...
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 ...
Interview by Cliff White, Rock's Backpages audio, 1976
The Capricorn boss talks about his disillusion with soul music after management client Otis Redding's death; his move into white rock with the Allman Brothers Band; the attention brought to southern music as a result; the current state of the Allman Brothers Band; brother Gregg's problems; the Atlanta Rhythm Section; dropping Travis Wammack; Dobie Gray... and Bonnie Bramlett's new album Lady's Choice.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd: Gimme Back My Bullets (MCA 2744)
Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 31 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, New Musical Express, 21 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, 21 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, 28 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 ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Fifths and Fists For The Common Man
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Creem, March 1976
I ALREADY HAVE two strikes against me: one, I am a Yankee, two a girl. I don't want to strike out because I'm a teetotaler, ...
The Outlaws: The Hottest New Guitar Band In The Country
Interview by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, April 1976
IT'S A STRANGE-looking crowd at the Hollywood Palladium. Not since surfer days have there been so many wool shirts in one place, and not your ...
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 ...
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 19 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 ...
The Marshall Tucker Band: Long Hard Ride (Capricorn)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, September 1976
IT COULD BE that the emerging stylistic identities of the various Southern rock bands derive as much from their differing geographic origins as from the ...
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 4 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 ...
Charlie Daniels' Rowdy, Southern, Swinging Music
Interview by Joe Nick Patoski, Rolling Stone, 7 October 1976
The 'Uneasy Rider' is no dumb rebel... and he doesn't wear panty hose, either ...
Bonnie Bramlett: Kicking Out The Jams
Interview by Kris DiLorenzo, The Aquarian Weekly, 27 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, 30 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 Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 13 November 1976
LYNYRD SKYNYRD are one those bands who, like Rory Gallagher and Dr. Feelgood, will never be able to create the same excitement in the studio ...
Report by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 27 November 1976
Krautland krumbles to the beat of Macon Georgia. Pete Makowski checks out the Marshall Tucker Band and friends in Hamburg. Bourbon by Jim Bean — peanuts by Jimmy ...
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 Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 4 December 1976
MARSHALL TUCKER and co. had a hot time in the old town last Saturday night. They blazed the trail west with some fierce ten gallon ...
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 4 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, 18 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, 5 February 1977
TO SOME people, kicking off a British tour in London is the equivalent of musical suicide. ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 5 February 1977
Skynyrd: all guts and fury ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: The Wild Bunch
Report and Interview by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 12 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, 14 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 ...
Allman Brothers Band, Dickey Betts: Rhett Butler After The Fall: Dickey Betts Brushes Himself Off...
Interview by Robert Duncan, Creem, March 1977
MY PERMANENT mental image of Dickey Betts comes from a photo taken on the last Allman Brothers Band tour, in which he has short hair, ...
The Marshall Tucker Band: Carolina Dreams
Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 14 May 1977
I THINK the late great Duane Allman might turn in his grave if he heard this record. ...
Atlanta Rhythm Section: Back to the Classics
Report and Interview by John Swenson, Rolling Stone, 2 June 1977
BOSTON — THREE months ago the Atlanta Rhythm Section had reached the nadir of their career. After making five good albums that sold only sporadically ...
Dickey Betts: Movin' On Out Of The Macon Mess
Report by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 11 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 ...
38 Special: 38 Special (A&M SP-4638)
Review by John Swenson, Rolling Stone, 11 August 1977
38 SPECIAL IS the second rock band in the Van Zant family, but any similarity between Donnie Van Zant's group and his older brother's Sturm ...
Allman and Woman: Cher & Gregg Allman: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 26 November 1977
ON THE FACE of it, Cher and Gregg Allman are one of music's most unlikely couples; she a star of television spectacular and gossip column ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Ronnie Van Zant: Requiem for a Simple Man
Obituary by John Swenson, Rolling Stone, 1 December 1977
I LAST SAW Ronnie Van Zant, Lynyrd Skynyrd's leader and prime mover, a year ago on a rainy Monday night in New York City. Van ...
Eleanor Grant: Look Out For Eleanor In '78
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 31 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 ...
The Outlaws: Outlaws Brought Back Live
Interview by Fred Schruers, Circus, 11 May 1978
Southern Renegades Captured at Last on Vinyl ...
Allman Brothers Band: Allman Brothers Reform For LP, Tour
Report by Richard Wootton, Melody Maker, 9 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, The Rossington Collins Band, The Who: Lynyrd Skynyrd: "Still healing"
Report and Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 17 September 1978
THE EFFECTS of last October's plane crash that ended the career of Lynyrd Skynyrd, America's most talented Southern-grown hard rock band, are still being felt ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Skynyrd's First And…Last
Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 23 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 ...
Jerry Lee Lewis (1978) [transcript]
Audio transcript of interview by Cliff White, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 9 November 1978
This is a transcript of Cliff's audio interview with Jerry. Hear the interview here ...
The Marshall Tucker Band: Marshall Tucker Band: Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by John Swenson, Rolling Stone, 23 January 1979
Marshall Tucker plays Dead ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Rossington Collins Band: Lynyrd Skynyrd: If I Leave Here Tomorrow
Retrospective by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 15 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 ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Rossington Collins Band: Rossington Collins Band: On The Road Again
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 21 August 1980
Four Lynyrd Skynyrd survivors plus three return to rock scene as Rossington Collins Band ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Rossington Collins Band: 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 Pete Makowski, Sounds, 13 March 1982
AFTER SO much tragedy and so much pain the Skynyrd people are back on their feet again...almost. ...
Allman Brothers Band, The Marshall Tucker Band: Tucker Band Keeps Southern Rock Alive
Profile and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 1982
SPARTANBURG IS a mill town of 50,000 nestled in the hills of western South Carolina. All six members of the Marshall Tucker Band grew up ...
Molly Hatchet: Anybody Here Seen My Old Friend Molly Hatchet?
Interview by J. Kordosh, Creem, August 1983
JUST BEFORE Molly Hatchet went onstage, Keith Johnson — their road manager — escorted me to an unusually good seat. I was three, maybe four ...
Report and Interview by Deborah Frost, Record, June 1984
One prayed to be square, one prays for good odds in Vegas and one worships at the shrine of Howard Hughes. Welcome to the eccentric ...
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 ...
38 Special, Dwight Twilley: 38 Special: Strength In Numbers (A&M); Dwight Twilley: Wild Dogs (A&M)
Review by Craig Zeller, Creem, October 1986
AT WORK, we play the radio constantly. A good part of the time it's tuned to the local oldies station. The other day I was ...
Georgia Satellites: Georgia Satellites (Elektra)
Review by Jon Young, Creem, April 1987
PEACHES IN CREEM! ...
Gregg Allman: The Gregg Allman Band: Just Before The Bullets (Fly CBS)
Review by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 6 May 1989
SO BROTHER Duane was perhaps the leading exponent of slide guitar, his virtuoso expertise gracing the grooves of Clapton's finest hour and a half, Layla ...
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 ...
The Black Crowes: Roxy, Los Angeles
Live Review by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 26 May 1990
PITY ALCOHOLICS anonymous Dogs D'Amour. The Black Crowes are booked as support act to the Dogs for a string of shows next month, shows which ...
Allman Brothers Band: The Allman Brothers: Seven Turns
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Vox, October 1990
LAST YEAR'S EPIC DREAMS boxed set satisfactorily covered the full history of these good ol' Southern boys and their particular brand of rock 'n' blues. ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Johnny Van Zant: Johnny Van Zant: It's A Family Affair
Interview by Jon Young, Musician, November 1990
Johnny Van Zant grabs the spotlight with a walk down Brickyard Road ...
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 ...
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 ...
Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 5 January 1991
From out of the Texan desert they came, with recycled riffs, "ironic" sexism and grotesque amounts of facial hair… the Middle Aged Mutant Guitar Heroes! ...
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 ...
Kentucky Headhunters: Hard-Rock Hoedown
Profile and Interview by John Swenson, Rolling Stone, 19 September 1991
The Kentucky Headhunters serve up their own style of Southern fare. ...
Widespread Panic: Widespread Panic (Capricorn)
Review by Jon Young, Musician, October 1991
ITS SWELL that R.E.M. and the B-52's represent the enlightened New South. But don't you miss the backwards Old South, where hairy wild men who ...
The Black Crowes: Rock 'N' Roll Dilemmas, the Acid Test of Heavy Metal Morals: The Black Crowes
Interview by Paul Elliott, Kerrang!, 10 October 1991
The Rock 'N' Roll Dilemmas are cunningly contrived queries designed to probe the immoral depths to which rock stars will stoop. Or not, as 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 ...
Dixie Dregs: Return of the living Dregs
Report and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Good Times Savannah, Fall 1991
Guitarist Steve Morse Leads Re-Formed Dixie Dregs ...
Hampton Grease Band: Colonel Bruce Hampton: Sleeping with the Fishes
Profile and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Good Times Savannah, April 1992
Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit release live debut ...
The Black Crowes: Good Olde Boys: The Black Crowes didn't do it
Profile and Interview by Mark Kemp, L.A. Weekly, 19 November 1992
The point is that, like Richard Hell says, rock'n'roll is an arena in which you re-create yourself, and all this blathering about authenticity is just ...
Widespread Panic: Panic Attack: An Actual Rock Show Comes to Town!
Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Creative Loafing, 23 July 1994
DAVE SCHOOLS can't wait to get to Savannah. Neither can the rest of his band for that matter. Yes, even now the collective stomachs of ...
Alex Chilton, Jim Dickinson: 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 ...
The Black Crowes: Stoned Soul Picnic
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 ...
Review by John Swenson, Rolling Stone, 29 June 1995
THE ALLMAN Brothers Band live on because live performance is what they're about. The call of the road and the thrill of collective improvisation are ...
Hootie and the Blowfish: Shake Your Hootie
Profile and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Creative Loafing, 2 September 1995
Guitarist Mark Bryan Tells All on Golf, the Big Time, and the Blowfish Beer of Choice ...
The Black Crowes: Astoria, London
Live Review by Paul Moody, New Musical Express, 30 November 1996
A DOZEN CRIMSON rugs strewn across a stage; the waft of incense burning sweetly from the monitors; an anaemic band clad only in the finest ...
ZZ Top: Billy Gibbons: Rhythmeen & Blues
Report and Interview by Mike Mettler, Guitar, May 1997
SEEING ZZ TOP'S Billy Gibbons without his trademark shades on is like viewing the emperor with no clothes: it's a startling vision. Yet here's the ...
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 ...
Gov't Mule: Psycheblues: Gov't Mule Don't Mess with the Fat
Report and Interview by Ted Drozdowski, The Boston Phoenix, 9 March 1998
BIG, BAD-ASS blues rock. Nobody's got the nuts to play it nowadays. Not in a pop world where it's more important to sound alternative or ...
The Black Crowes, Gov't Mule, Widespread Panic: Freebirds All: Southern Rock's Undying Appeal
Overview by Kandia Crazy Horse, The Village Voice, 16 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; file size: 55.9mb, interview length: 58' 10" sound quality: * (phone interview)
The Black Crowes: Black Magic From The Amen Corner: The Black Crowes’ voodoo resurrection
Overview by Kandia Crazy Horse, Creative Loafing, 9 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 ...
Widespread Panic: Til the Medicine Takes (Capricorn)
Review by Richard Gehr, Spin, September 1999
DOES ANY musical style beg more loudly for a swift kick in the boot-cut Levis than Southern-fried boogie? Or is the tradition of such bands ...
Allman Brothers Band: Fathers and Sons: The Allmans
Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 11 November 1999
THE STORY of the Allman Brothers Band is one of the most glorious and the most tragic in rock. On this year's tour, celebrating the ...
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 ...
Gregg Allman: Midnight Riders: Gregg Allman
Report and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 9 November 2000
YOU WOULDN'T normally associate the phrase "jacket required" with a concert titled "Gregg Allman and Friends," but the gravelly-voiced singer and keyboardist hopes to find ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001
Barry Bailey, b. 12 June 1948, Decatur, Georgia, USA; Paul Goddard, b. 23 June 1945, Rome, Georgia; J. R. Cobb, b. 5 February 1944, Birmingham, ...
The Charlie Daniels Band: Charlie Daniels Band, The
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001
Charlie Daniels, b. 28 October 1943, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA; Joel Di Gregorio, b. Worcester, Massachusetts; Tom Crain; Charlie Hayward; Fred Edwards; Don Murray; Charlie ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001
Danny Joe Brown, b. 1951, Jacksonville, Florida, USA (replaced by Jimmy Farrar, b. La Grange, Georgia); Bruce Crump (replaced by Barry Borden, b. 12 May ...
Kid Rock: Like a Motown Cowboy
Comment by RJ Smith, The Village Voice, 18 December 2001
TWO GUYS MARCH into the Victor Recording Company office one summer day in 1922, mad flossing all the way: one dressed like a cowboy, the ...
Big Star, Ry Cooder, Jim Dickinson, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones: Jim Dickinson: Home Cooking
Interview by Joss Hutton, Perfect Sound Forever, January 2002
THIS MAIN COURSE is a hearty southern dish, marinated in worldly wisdom and good humour, matured slowly in honky-tonks, recording studios and bars the world ...
Allman Brothers Band: The Allman Brothers Band's Butch Trucks (2002)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 27 May 2002
The white half of the Allman's drum duo looks back at the formation of the band, including the recruitment of a tricky Greg Allman; the marvellous two years that followed; the deaths, succesively, of Duane Allman and Berry Oakley; the crumbling of the band between '73 and '76, and its recent revival of fortunes following the departure of Dickey Betts.
File format: mp3; file size: 42.5mb, interview length: 46' 27" sound quality: ** (phoner)
Allman Brothers Band: The Allman Brothers Band's Gregg Allman (2002)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 27 May 2002
The other Allman Brother looks back at growing up with Duane; starting to play, and their influences; early bands, and the travails of the Allman Joys; rejoining his bro in Florida and forming the Brothers Band; being multi-racial and long haired in the South; the '70s and the post-Duane band; and solo albums, addiction and recovery.
File format: mp3; file size: 43.5mb, interview length: 47' 31" sound quality: ** (phoner)
Allman Brothers Band: Song O' The South: How the Allman Brothers made a Redneck Negress out of me
Special Feature by Kandia Crazy Horse, Rock's Backpages, June 2002
AN UNORTHODOX daughter of Dixie, born in the year of their classic Fillmore East live album, my life truly began when I heard the exotic, ...
Dickey Betts & Great Southern: BB King's Blues Club, New York
Live Review by Kandia Crazy Horse, PopMatters, 27 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: The Mouth of the South
Profile and Interview by Eric Weisbard, Spin, December 2002
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 ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: The Making of 'Free Bird'
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Blender, December 2002
VITAL STATISTICS SONG: 'Free Bird' ARTIST: Lynyrd Skynyrd LABEL: MCA/Sounds Of the South PERFORMERS: Ronnie Van Zant: vocals Allen Collins: guitar Gary Rossington: guitar Ed ...
Nightbirds: Blueprint for a Mixtape
Guide by Kandia Crazy Horse, PopMatters, 5 February 2003
'IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH REED'/THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND ...
Drive-By Truckers: Decoration Day (New West)
Review by Kandia Crazy Horse, The Village Voice, 13 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 ...
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Southern Accents
Review by Adam Sweeting, Uncut, May 2004
IF YOU WERE compiling a list of Southern Rock bands, you'd have the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the North Mississippi All Stars pencilled in ...
Drive-By Truckers: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Redneck Warrior Poets of Rock 'n' Roll
Profile and Interview by Steve LaBate, Paste, 1 August 2004
TEN, NINE... This is a story about rock 'n' roll. ...
Kings Of Leon: Songs of Experience
Profile and Interview by James Medd, Esquire, October 2004
Older, wiser and a lot less hairy, the Kings of Leon... rule. ...
Kings of Leon: A-Ha Shake Heartbreak
Review by Ben Thompson, The Observer, 17 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 ...
Essay by Kandia Crazy Horse, Perfect Sound Forever, April 2005
Feels so good inside myself Don't wanna move Feels so good inside myself Don't need to move –'Luv 'N Haight', Sly & the Family Stone ...
Mofro: The Pageant, St. Louis, Mo.
Live Review by Kandia Crazy Horse, Paste, 18 June 2005
PERHAPS THE RED, white and blue spotlights at St. Louis's Pageant should've served as trickster clues. Or the snide remark of a toasted, aging frat ...
Hayseed Dixie: Southern-Fried Metal
Profile and Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 27 July 2005
Hayseed Dixie aren't your average AC/DC covers band: they come from Nashville, play banjos and read The Guardian. ...
Jim Dickinson: Fishing with Charlie & Other Selected Readings
Sleeve notes by Bill Bentley, Birdman Records, 2006
THERE AREN'T MANY shamans still in our world. Most have been ground down to dust, and those left are laying low, hoping to dodge the ...
Jerry Lynn Williams: The Lone Ranger: Jerry Lynn Williams
Retrospective by Bill Bentley, Austin Chronicle, 27 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 ...
Drive-By Truckers: A Blessing and a Curse
Review by Mark Kemp, Paste, 12 April 2006
PATTERSON HOOD SUMS UP Drive-By Truckers' new album, A Blessing and a Curse, in one line of the closing track: "To love is to feel ...
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 ...
North Mississippi Allstars: South Toward Home
Report and Interview by Andria Lisle, Memphis Flyer, 12 October 2006
When the Allstars come home and play blues all night long, it's a family tradition. ...
Live Review by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 14 December 2007
HOW THE heck did Kings of Leon wind up at Wembley? ...
Drive-By Truckers: Brighter Than Creation's Dark
Review and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, March 2008
Improbably, they find a way to get better than ever. ...
Drive-By Truckers: Brighter Than Creation's Dark
Review by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, March 2008
Seventh studio album by the Athens, Georgia-based Southern rockers finds them regrouped and stronger than ever. ...
Review by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, April 2008
No irony. No significant changes. No problem! ...
The Black Crowes: The Return of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
Interview by Paul Elliott, MOJO, April 2008
After seven years in the wilderness, the Black Crowes, America's freewheelin', dope-smokin', warring Blues Brotherhood are back. And this time their singer Chris Robinson is ...
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, 17 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: Mystery & Magic
Retrospective and Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Classic Rock, Summer 2008
"YOU KNOW HOW they always say, who died and made you boss?" asks Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington in his soft Florida drawl, made even ...
Drive-By Truckers, The Hold Steady: Drive-By Truckers/The Hold Steady: Rock'N'Roll Means Well…
Profile and Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, January 2009
… that's the name of Autumn 2008's premium tour, a raucous Stateside double-header featuring Drive-By Truckers and the Hold Steady. From Atlanta to Tallahassee, Uncut ...
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit: Lightning Rod
Review by Mark Kemp, Rolling Stone, 19 February 2009
Ex-Trucker takes on heartland rock and brooding weepers. ...
Jim Dickinson: "I'm Just Dead: I'm Not Gone"
Memoir by Bob Mehr, MOJO, November 2009
A Sun Records artist who played with Dylan, the Stones and Aretha and produced key albums by Big Star and Ry Cooder, Jim Dickinson was ...
Dead Confederate: Wrecking Ball
Review by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, December 2009
'90s grunge rears its woolly head in the American South... ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, bbc.co.uk, 2010
Canadian trio take a trip to the Deep South. ...
Review and Interview by Bud Scoppa, Uncut, June 2010
Ben Bridwell's promise is fulfilled – his handpicked band fashion a thrilling artistic breakthrough. ...
Kings of Leon: Good Old Boys: Kings of Leon: Come Around Sundown (RCA)
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rock's Backpages, October 2010
WHEN THE Followill brothers and their cousin Matthew first busted out of Tennessee in 2003 with the colorfully titled EP Holy Roller Novocaine, they were ...
Kings of Leon: Joel McIver: Holy Rock 'n Rollers – The Story of Kings of Leon (Omnibus Press)
Book Review by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 25 October 2010
JUST IN TIME for the release of their fifth record, Come Around Sundown, comes the second biography (after Michael Heatley's Kings of Leon: Sex on ...
Gregg Allman: Low Country Blues
Review by Andy Gill, The Word, February 2011
T-Bone Burnett brings Gregg Allman back from the brink with a blues injection. It's the best solo album he's ever made. ...
Kings of Leon: Hyde Park, London
Live Review by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 23 June 2011
IT HAD BEEN pouring with rain all day, but by the time Kings of Leon came on stage, the dark clouds had gone – they ...
Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd: Alabama Shakes: The Saga of Southern Rock
Comment by Barney Hoskyns, The Guardian, 6 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 ...
Review by Martin Aston, bbc.co.uk, 10 April 2012
This Alabama outfit might be the feel-good hit of the summer festival circuit. ...
Alabama Shakes: Boys & Girls (Rough Trade)
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 11 April 2012
THIS STORMING debut album from the hot-ticket Alabama soul-rock quartet fully delivers on the groundswell of anticipation built up by already legendary live performances and ...
Obituary by David Hepworth, The Word, June 2012
'THE NIGHT THEY drove old Dixie down' is the perfect emblem for the life and career of Levon Helm. This one song, written by Robbie ...
Report and Interview by Andy Gill, Uncut, July 2012
The South has risen again! How Alabama Shakes became the best — and the biggest — new band of 2012. "They make me think of ...
Obituary by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 12 September 2012
American singer and songwriter best known for 'Games People Play' ...
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." ...
Alabama Shakes' Unlikely Triumph
Interview by Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 14 March 2013
BRITTANY HOWARD, the powerhouse 24-year-old frontwoman for Alabama Shakes, isn't much for red carpets. ...
Creedence Clearwater Revival, John Fogerty: John Fogerty
Interview by Bob Mehr, MOJO, June 2013
The prime mover behind Creedence Clearwater Revival, he crafted blazing pop songs of soul and protest until band strife and label hell undid him. But ...
Jason Isbell: The Highway Loves The Sin
Review and Interview by Holly Gleason, Paste, 10 June 2013
"I REMEMBER that place being this mythical hellhole," Jason Isbell says quietly. He's not speaking of the addiction he's recently kicked, but the place of ...
Bad Company, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Paul Rodgers: How Lynyrd Skynyrd Hooked Up Bad Company's Paul Rodgers
Retrospective and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 10 July 2013
"PLAYING WITH Skynyrd was always in the cards. We go back a long way, and I toured with them as a solo artist," Bad Company ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: On Lynyrd Skynyrd's Ed King, and Trayvon Martin
Letter by Mark Kemp, Rock and Rap Confidential, 17 July 2013
JUST WANTED to let you folks at RRC know that Ed King, ostensibly one of the more enlightened original members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, and a former member ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd still rocks the classics
Interview by Jim Sullivan, Cape Cod Times, 8 August 2013
IT COULD HAPPEN at any rock show, any time, any place, anywhere. The band is revving up for its encore, and you hear a cry ...
Kings Of Leon: Mechanical Bull
Review by Ian Gittins, Virgin Media Music, September 2013
THREE YEARS AGO, things were looking distinctly bleak for the arena-filling Nashville rockers. Following a sub-par fifth album, Come Around Sundown, that singer Caleb Followill ...
Gov't Mule: Warren Haynes: This Mule Is a Real Workhorse
Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 8 November 2013
IN ANOTHER ERA, James Brown was the Hardest Working Man in Show Business. Today, that title crown might just fall upon the hirsute head of ...
Review by Mick Houghton, Uncut, February 2014
TAKING THEIR NAME from a grocery store, Barefoot Jerry evolved out of Area Code 615, a group of top-notch young sessioneers who saw the light ...
Book Review by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 18 March 2014
MAKE NO MISTAKE. While only two of the six original members of the Allman Brothers Band were actual biological siblings, the fraternal ties of Duane ...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: An Interview with Rickey Medlocke
Interview by Jim Sullivan, Cape Cod Times, July 2014
IT COULD HAPPEN at any rock show, any time, any place, anywhere. The band is revving up for its encore, and you hear a cry ...
Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 5 September 2014
WHILE THERE are plenty of musicians, record collectors and journos who will argue (as only musicians, record collectors and journos can) that all rock is ...
Drive-By Truckers: Patterson Hood Touts Drive-By Truckers' New Unity
Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 5 March 2015
OVER A discography of work, some rock bands become closely identified with their frequent record cover artists be it Ken Kelly with KISS, Jim Fitzpatrick ...
Retrospective and Interview by David Burke, R2/Rock'n'Reel, May 2016
DONNIE FRITTS MAY be an alumnus of Muscle Shoals, the Alabama mecca of southern soul, and a renowned songwriter and recording artist in his own ...
Gregg Allman, Southern Rock Pioneer, Dead at 69
Obituary by Richard Gehr, Rolling Stone, 27 May 2017
Allman Brothers Band leader "passed away peacefully at his home in Savannah, Georgia". ...
Dixie Dregs: The South Rises Again on Dixie Dregs Reunion Tour
Retrospective and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 13 March 2018
IT'S BEEN JUST a week since the Dixie Dregs launched their reunion tour when guitarist Steve Morse is on the line. The trek called 'Dawn ...
The Amazing Rhythm Aces: Russell Smith: An Ace, An Old Friend + An Echo of a Moment
Essay by Holly Gleason, hollygleason.com, 15 July 2019
THIRTY THOUSAND OR so feet above everything, late and tired. With the ear buds in, the demos – all top shelf kind of awesome – ...
The Black Crowes: Steve Gorman's Explosive Memoir Tells Wayward Flight of the Black Crowes
Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 18 September 2019
THROUGH THE entire career of the Black Crowes — from when they were known as Mr. Crowe's Garden, to their 1990 hit debut record Shake ...
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