94 posts to get an SRV mention?
I’ll take the Allman Brothers and Stevie Ray Vaughn any day.
And I’m surprised that nobody mentioned Melisa by the Allman Bros Band.
There’s that new song by Kid Rock that’s a tribute to Sweet Home Alabama... Well, to me it really sounds like Warren Zevon’s “Werewolves of London.”
Mark
So will I !!
Music labels are rather limiting but I think most people don’t see SRV as Southern Rock. He’s pretty much straight up blues. Damn good but not Southern Rock.
- Almost anything the original Allman Brothers did (even though I hear it more as blues than rock).
- Charlie Daniels, “Long Haired Country Boy” among others.
- Country Boy Rock and Roll, by numerous and predates the so called Southern Rock by years. Here’s a killer version by Marty Stuart playing Clarence White’s (RIP) Tele with the B-Bender. White is one of the best and most influential guitarists most people never heard of.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7Qr3romi9U
- The Kentucky Head Hunters, “Walk Softly On This Heart of Mine”
- Most anything by Danny Gatton. The Humbler rules.
“94 posts to get an SRV mention?”
. . . Ahmen Brother. SRV was truly a gifted genius of epic proportion taken from us much too soon. His short life painfully reminds me of another dearly departed young artist whose musical inventiveness and righteous voice make his loss deep. He is Mark Sandman of Morphine. He is not necessarily Southern, but blues, jazz and even a bit of country flows vividly thoughout his expansive musical catalog. His other bands were Sandman, Candy Bar, the Hypnosonics, Supergroup (with Chris Ballew), and the Pale Brothers. After he passed, his band mates and others formed Twinemen and honestly continue Sandman’s “Low-Rock” swerve. Do your intellectual ears a big favor and give his music a listen.
Morphine, btw, is great ‘groovin’ tunes for u and your squeeze.
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