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To: A Navy Vet; Pelham

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.


287 posted on 09/20/2019 4:13:45 PM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: wardaddy
Just saw Blackberry Smoke playing acoustically in NYC last year. They were awesome.

I even videoed them playing Led Zeppelin -

Blackberry Smoke - That's the Way (Led Zeppelin cover)

292 posted on 09/20/2019 4:34:49 PM PDT by dead (Liberals ruin everything.)
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To: wardaddy
Skynard, Molly Hatchet, .38 Special are all true Southern Rock bands. Then you have the early Outlaws and others. Seems most bands who recorded at Muscle Shoals studio were Southern Rock. I believe the producers at that studio helped create the genre as much as the artists.

Producers often take musicians in a different directions or enhance their sound. Think Chess (Cadillac) records with Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, and so many others. Then there is producers Phil Spector and Barry Gordy of Motown. Hell, Elvis was a nobody until Sun Records produced him.

313 posted on 09/20/2019 11:23:27 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Also LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
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