[A Navy Vet]

"ZZ Top cause they did it well and with fun"

I don't consider ZZ in the Southern Rock genre. Their early stuff was blues with some Tex-Mex influence. Their later "Eliminator" stuff was pure melodic rock with some blues ballads.

[wardaddy]

Texas is part of the south no matter how much Yankees who’ve moved there swear otherwise

I’ve argued that here forever.

Like the origin of the Lone Star flag and so forth

I’ll grant ZZ Top is different in a way Skynyrd and Molly Hatchet are similar

Liberals adore Drive By Truckers as Southern rock ..well because it’s a very lib and I mean Uber liberal band....but it’s not southern rock to me although the south is all they sing about

Blackberry Smoke is a Georgia band identified with Texas but is very southern rock sounding...

It’s kind of complicated.