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1970s Southern Rock takes center stage during the BDFL's 2021 Throwback Week in Week 6

The South's gonna do it again and again

MACON, GA - The heyday of Southern Rock in the 1970s began with the 1973 release of the Allman Brothers Band’s Brothers and Sisters album, with its major hit "Ramblin' Man" and other Southern inflected tunes like "Jessica". This album was a departure from previous Allman Brothers work, which until the death of band leader Duane Allman in late October 1971, had been purely blues rock. Dickey Betts' "Blue Sky", which appeared on the 1972 Eat a Peach album, was the one song recorded during the Duane Allman era that could in retrospect be seen as a bridge to Southern Rock. Betts' ascension as band leader following the death of Duane and then Berry Oakley, the band’s original bassist, turned the direction of the band and American pop music, in general, towards a more Southern-fried sound. In the early 1970s, another wave of hard rock Southern groups emerged. Influenced by British rock and the hard rock guitar sound, most notably Keith Richards' riff on "Brown Sugar" and Free's guitar play on "All Right Now", these new hard rocking Southern bands emphasized boogie rhythms and fast guitar leads with lyrics extolling the values, aspirations and excesses of young Southern working-class adults similar to country music's outlaw movement of this same era. Lynyrd Skynyrd dominated this genre until the death of lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines in the tragic 1977 airplane crash near Gillsburg, Mississippi. This new "Southern Rock" music was also heavily influenced by the late '60s electric rock music scene and these acts included Elvin Bishop, Wet Willie and ZZ Top, all considered part of the first wave of Southern Rock. The Marshall Tucker Band from South Carolina opened many Allman Brothers shows and were creatively on par with them by using elements of blues, country rock and blues rock in their music. Also associated with the first wave of Southern rock were Grinderswitch, Barefoot Jerry and the Charlie Daniels Band. Daniels himself gave Southern Rock its self-identifying anthem in 1975 with "The South's Gonna Do It", the lyrics of which mentioned most of the above bands, proclaiming: "Be proud you're a rebel/'Cause the South's gonna do it again." The Outlaws from Tampa, Florida, brought bluegrass licks into their music as another Southern Rock staple. The Atlanta Rhythm Section, the Amazing Rhythm Aces as well as Orleans and Louisiana's Le Roux were more focused on vocal harmonies. Molly Hatchet, .38 Special, Blackfoot, Johnny Winter, Black Oak Arkansas and the Ozark Mountain Daredevils were also popular Southern Rock acts in the 1970s.