The American South is a hot mess of cultural contradictions, and while those contradictions have stoked the dumpster fire of U.S. politics for a couple of centuries, they also happen to be fueling ...

A little bit swampy and a little bit country, Southern rock is a genre that has always defied expectations. In its 1970s heyday, the genre boasted some of rock music's finest guitarists and lyricists, ...

Born in Jacksonville just over 50 years ago, 38 Special is still holding on loosely. The nonstop Southern rock band is celebrating its anniversary with its first studio album in more than twenty years ...

The ‘90s supposedly “killed the guitar solo.” Yet even amid a decade dominated by grunge, gangsta rap, teen pop and nu-metal, southern rock, a classic sound synonymous with guitar solos, made a ...