Like so much rock 'n' roll from the earliest and most formative years, Southern rock took a little bit from here and a little bit from there. Southern rock, distinct from its lighter country rock ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers Band may define the classic sound, but should we also consider R.E.M. to exist in the same category? They are, after all, a rock band from the South. Neil ...

Sometimes we think certain genres are only for certain people, that songs made in East Coast cities are for people living in those East Coast cities. Same for West Coast music, Texas music, southern ...

While back, Leigh Ellen Sandlin Cauthen saw an image of a then-new mural outside Macon, Georgia’s H&H Restaurant. H&H is a local soul food spot that in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s provided sustenance ...