Are you looking for the legendary southern rock bands that defined the genre? Read on to find the rock bands of 70s and 80s ...

Indeed, these are three 1970s Southern rock songs that might show its the best music out there. [RELATED: How Jacksonville Florida Became the Mecca for Southern Rock] “Midnight Rider” by The ...

The 1970s was the era of stadium rock and bands who could fill arenas ... Lynyrd Skynyrd pioneered and inspired the Southern rock genre. They formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1964.

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 ...

While rock and roll expanded with epic arrangements and staggering guitar solos in the 1970s, a group of ... While The Allman Brothers Band helped establish Southern rock, Lynyrd Skynyrd came ...

But Southern rock doesn't end with them ... Georgia - first appeared on the band's second LP in 1970, Idlewild South. A year later the group included an expanded version on their breakthrough ...

The iconic band’s last surviving co-founder was ... musicians who could be seen as honoring the cultural and musical ideas of 1970s Southern rock — and building upon them — tend to be ...

When they recruited a group of long-haired Florida boys known as the Allman Brothers Band, Southern rock was born ... By the mid 1970s, Macon's scene was thriving with Capricorn's roster expanding ...

The point is that in the 1970s, The Marshall Tucker Band showed how broad the term “Southern rock” can be, and that unique sound has fueled them for more than 50 years. Having said that ...

Think Southern rock's jam-based songs rooted in the ... Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, "Mr. Bojangles" (1970) Jerry Jeff Walker wrote "Mr. Bojangles" about a real person he met while serving time ...