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. Not to be confused with its lighter-touched country rock ...

Let’s be real, the days of The Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and The Marshall Tucker Band are over. They have been for a while, but that doesn’t mean that all Southern rock is gone; it just ...

That’s why we wanted to dive into the 1970s catalog and pick out three southern rock songs from the decade that essentially define the sound. A trio of tracks that get us excited to rock and that pay ...

The editors of Oxford American, a magazine about Southern U.S. culture, have just released their annual music issue, which includes a CD. Editor and publisher Marc Smirnoff talks with Alex Chadwick ...

For Marc Smirnoff, the magazine’s editor and publisher, certain aspects of music have always been special -- its uplifting nature, its intimacy, even its ability to “sweep down and take complete hold ...

NPR's Debbie Elliott speaks to Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes, who is this year's guest editor of the Oxford American Southern Music Issue. Oxford American magazine's annual Southern music ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bristol is bisected by the Tennessee-Virginia state line and is known as the "birthplace of country music." Joel Carillet, Getty ...