Southern Rock Essentials

Southern rock rose out of the ‘s, as rebellious teenage longhairs took up the guitar and twisted the sounds of Dixie's musical heritage into something electrifying. Mixing blistering blues with rock ‘n' roll swagger and down-home country twang is the formula distilled to its essence, and Lynyrd Skynyrd could pop off a six-string epic as effortlessly as they could a honky-tonk jam. The genre warped all kinds of American music into some wild blends Little Feat's groovy turns on Dixie Chicken simmer with Bayou heat, and Duane Allman's jazzy, virtuosic solos earned him a reputation as one of the all-time great guitar slingers.