In 1973, The Allman Brothers Band released a song that would become their biggest commercial hit and one of the defining ...

The territory south of the Mason-Dixon Line has always been musically fertile. Think Memphis and Nashville alone with Sun Records, Stax, Hi and more, and then Muscle Shoals and the north Mississippi ...

A fitting appellation isn't a prerequisite for Southern-rock greatness. It doesn’t seem to hurt, though. So, what makes a Southern rock musician's name sound particularly "Southern rock"? Rolling off ...

Like so much rock 'n' roll from the earliest and most formative years, Southern rock took a little bit from here and a little bit from there. Not to be confused with its lighter-touched country rock ...

Southern rock titans Blackberry Smoke will be rolling into Kingston for a concert at Ulster Performing Arts Center.

That’s why we wanted to dive into the 1970s catalog and pick out three southern rock songs from the decade that essentially define the sound. A trio of tracks that get us excited to rock and that pay ...

This 1979 record has been compared to Lynyrd Skynyrd quite a bit through the years, especially the opening track “Whiskey Man”. However, Molly Hatchet is so much more than a clone of another band. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 55 years later, this Southern rock hit is still making waves. In November, Ultimate Classic Rock ranked the top 35 Southern rock ...

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

Live albums go together with Southern rock nearly as much as Les Pauls, beards and every-man anthems do. In the live-album department, Southern rock has produced some true doozies. One is even ...

The cruise takes place almost a month after the last listed date on Skynyrd’s farewell tour, which had originally been set to end in their hometown of Jacksonville, Fla., on Sept. 2 before shows were ...