I once heard Gregg Allman say something to this effect.
Southern rock? That’s like saying rock rock.
That Gregg, he’s such a card.
Tonight, the FNCMFPECDAA has decided to Drive South.
Tonight’s topic is………..
Southern Rock Band…Other Than Skynyrd Or The Allman Brothers?
Special Bonus Extra Credit: Which southern rock band released a funky late 70s cover of The Beatles’ “Blackbird”?
********** ******** Special Bonus Extra Credit Answer!!!! ******* *********
Back when album cover art was a bigger deal, I would sometimes buy a record because I liked the cover. This record was one I must have acquired at a used record store and not very long after it’s release in 1979.
Using this method to choose a record was surprisingly effective, I don’t recall getting burned too often and, this one was no exception. It turned out to be a really nice record that I listened to often.
Producer-performer Al Kooper had been visiting Atlanta since he played the first Atlanta Pop Festival in 1969. The southern rock scene was exploding, and Kooper had noticed the abundance of talent in and about Atlanta. With the backing of MCA Records, he launched the Sounds Of The South label with the initial deal calling for four new artists-three of which returned out to be Los Angeles funk band Elijah, Kooper’s own reformed Blues Project, and the Atlanta bar band Mose Jones. It was on Mose Jones’ recommendation that the final spot was filled by Skynyrd. Kooper jammed with the group at Funochios, and after some initial hesitancy, Lynyrd Skynyrd signed on.
from the website Remembering “Mose Jones”
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Sans Direction wrote,
Is there a Southern Rock band besides the Allman Brothers and Skynyrd?
OK, that’s obvious.
There’s the Dixie Dregs. The Dregs, for a while, had Mark O’Connor. Who’s Mark O’Connor? Well, the Devil knows him as Johnny. And they had Steve Morse. Everything I have read about Steve, everything I have heard about him, says he’s a heck of a nice guy, as well as a great player. But I have only heard any Dregs this year, a good 30 years after the fact.
The Marshall Tucker Band: Can’t you see? Can’t you see? What your one song anybody knows been doin’ to me?
.38 Special. Skynyrd Lyght. We’ll throw in Van Zant, Rossington Collins Band, Blackfoot and a few others.
Molly Hatchet: Anything besides “Flirtin’ With Disaster”?
There’s a bunch of bands that I’ll name here that came late to the party and don’t get thrown into the pool. Drive-By Truckers. Nashville P*ssy. Gov’t Mule (call it Allmans meet Sabbath, at least on the first album). Hayseed Dixie. The Black Crowes. And it’s interesting that I can’t post the Nashville band’s full name.
The Outlaws. Again, there’s the one-good-song issue. But dang, it’s a good song.
You know, I’ve been going through the Southern Rock listing in Wikipedia, and there’s one band, considering the host, that I feel comfortable giving the #3 position to. Ozark Mountain Daredevils. If you wanna get to Branson, you’ve got to raise a little hell, right?
Link | September 5th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
J wrote,
A few more:
The Band - Up on Cripple Creek and Georgia Satellites - Keep Your Hands to Yourself.
Atlanta Rhythm Section
Wet Willie
Ram Jam
Black Oak Arkansas
Does Charlie Daniels count?
Link | September 5th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Pribek wrote,
“All the good people down in Tennessee
Are diggin’ Barefoot Jerry and the CDB”
Yeah Charlie Daniels is in there-Hell Yeah!
It crosses my mind that a lot of southern rock bands had songs that mentioned other southern rock bands like…”Large Time” by ARS and “Gator Country” by Molly Hatchet, I know there were more of those. Charlie had the good sense to throw his own band in there in his.
Link | September 6th, 2008 at 1:29 am
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Where is the South?
Link | September 6th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Special Bonus Extra Credit: Which southern rock band released a funky late 70s cover of The Beatles’ “Blackbird”?
I have been trying to remember that Blackbird recording all night, hoping I would waken Saturday morning with the name of who did that unusual renditio of it. I remember it playing over the AM airwaves, KILT Radio, one day when I was driving my ‘67 Mustang through the Hills to Roundtop for a weekend geetaway with the peeps.
so, for extra points on the final examI am going to say Buck Owens… final answer.
BLOGGER ALERT
Instead of coming up with a Greatest Ever named southern band other than Allman Bros.: Here is the challenge, to you all oh wizened music beasts of the engendering kind… a recent development in the news states that Gov Palin was fully synchronized for her role by a lonesome young republican blogger… no? Did you hear that one?
Okay, so “Why cannot we old and worthy-est curmudgeons pick the ‘Newest Southern Rock Band to emerge,’ and secretly put it into the spotlight with our adoration and sleaze tactics? and do it in about 6 months.”
In short “We decide who the Next Greatest Southern Rock Band is…” and I give credit to my learned musician-ists and musicologists for this fledgling idea in me head, plus the young Repub in the news.
So, not to infringe on the FNCMFPECDAA this week , but do, we say who the Southern Rock Band is, instead of who it was… ‘a capito? I have opened a blog just for this called curmudgeonVille, here http://curmudgeonville.blogspot.com/ or start your own, as this could land us into the RnR Hall of FAme… or probably not. More likely the Guinness world book of “Huh?”
First order of Business is pick an upstart Southern Rocker Group. Good Morning… you have the floor:
Link | September 6th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Crosby Stills Hash and Young, post Woodstock, is the Blackbird recording I was thinking of… but they are Canadian/bi-coastals… huh? Oh well..
Link | September 6th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Pribek wrote,
yeah, that’s not the one I’m thinking of-Stills is from Florida, I think.
Link | September 6th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Pribek wrote,
Nice to see the Dixie Dregs mentioned. I miss Steve Morse’s chicken picking. They got tagged with fusion a lot. Chuck Leavell’s band Sea Level was another one that did too.
Marshall Tucker Band was a fine band. Toy Caldwell was a very fine guitar player. Can’t remember the drummer’s name but, he added some circular drumming to the recipe.
I don’t know that I ever saw a live band that was more powerful than the Atlanta Rhythm Section.
I thought Wet Willie had a different take, that first record punched pretty hard.
The Daredevils were interesting and I never really put my finger on it until I saw the DVD package from their reunion last year that included some history and interviews. All of those guys say that they never thought of themselves as a band but, rather a songwriter’s collective which, fits well I think.
New southern rock? next southern rock? Certainly the bands Sans mentioned carry the torch in some respect and the “jam band scene” is full of carry-over but, I don’t think anything is as localized as it once might have been.
Link | September 6th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
J wrote,
Ok, your bonus question has me stumped and I’ve been trying to find the answer. Billy Preston did a cover in the early 70s and Crosby Stills & Nash did one in the late 70s. Is CSN a southern band? Stills is from Texas, but Crosby is from the Left Coast. I don’t remember where Nash is from…
The chick from Wet Willie married one of my good friends; Stan Foster. He plays bass w/ Rollin in the Hay. She’s still singing around Mobile, AL.
Link | September 6th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Pribek wrote,
If we don’t get an answer on the Blackbird, I’ll give the answer later today.The band in question was from Atlanta.
Link | September 7th, 2008 at 2:34 am
J wrote,
I was gonna guess “Goose Creek Symphony”, but they’re not from Atlanta. Interesting band, though.
Link | September 7th, 2008 at 8:04 am
Pribek wrote,
Oh yeah, I had a dear friend that loved Goose Creek. Spent a lot of simmer nights with the neighbors out on the porch listening to them. I think Goose Creek did a cover of the Amazing Rhythm Aces’ “Out Of The Snow”. Another good band.
Link | September 7th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
September 07: Song Binging [Urban Dictionary]
To binge on a song or artist.
The act of repeatedly and obsessively listening to a particular song or artist over a relatively short period of time. Periods of song binging are followed by extended periods of skipping the certain track or artist, leaving them unplayed.
girl: omg, im so bloody obsessed with fall out boy’s new song!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ive played it 84 times in the last 24hrs!!!
guy: stop song binging and go listen to other songs for once.
Whew!! Now I can quit looking for the answer, and listening to every version of Blackbird out there… since I know that the toughest bar in Atlanta is actually called West Texas… unbroken record of a brawl every night… just like a hitter having a lifetime of safe base hits.
Never have heard of the winning album, sorry, I really gave up days ago… yep?
Link | September 7th, 2008 at 3:34 pm