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AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

Edgy DC Mar 23 2011 08:42 AM

More or less In order of prominence, if not necessarily quality. [list=1][*]Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jacksonville, Florida ("Free Bird"!) [/*:m] [*]The Allman Brothers Band, Jacksonville, Florida ("Rambling Man") [/*:m] [*]The Charlie Daniels Band, Tennessee ("The Devil Went Down to Georgia") [/*:m] [*]ZZ Top, Houston, Texas ("Tush") [/*:m] [*]The Outlaws ("Green Grass and High Tides") [/*:m] [*]The Marshall Tucker Band, Spartanburg, South Carolina ("Heard It in a Love Song") [/*:m] [*]Molly Hatchet, Jacksonville, Florida [/*:m] [*][crossout]Pure Prarie League, Waverly, Ohio(!!) ("Fallin' In and Out of Love/Amie")[/crossout] [/*:m] [*]The Winters Brothers Band/The Edgar Winter Group, Franklin, Tennessee [/*:m] [*]The Atlanta Rhythm Section, Georgia ("So Into You") [/*:m] [*]The Elvin Bishop Band, Tulsa Oklahoma ("Fooled Around and Fell in Love") [/*:m] [*]Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Springfield, Missouri ("Jackie Blue") [/*:m] [*]Blackfoot, Jacksonville, Florida [/*:m] [*]The Rossington-Collins Band, Jacksonville Florida [/*:m] [*]Wet Willie, Mobile, Alabama ("Keep on Smilin'") [/*:m] [*]Grinderswitch, Georgia ("Pickin' the Blues") [/*:m] [*]Barefoot Jerry, Tennessee [/*:m] [*]Confederate Railroad [/*:m] [*]Thunderhead [/*:m] [*]Point Blank, Texas ("Nicole") [/*:m] [*]Black Oak Arkansas, Black Oak, Arkansas[/*:m][/list:o] I'd look up the homebase of each and a signature song of each, but I don't really have the time, and call on my fellow posters to help make this list complete and add any omissions. The general ranking isn't hard and fast (and am certain can be disputed), but it's based only on their particular legacy within the genre and within the decade. ZZ Top would likely rank as high as anybody, but a large chunk of their success came a-later. Funny how so many of their notable songs were kind of funky, kind of soul, kind of ballady. Associated acts not quite Southern enough or not quite rock enough or not quite seventies enough: Canned Heat Creedence Clearwater Revival The Band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers .38 Special [crossout]Big Brother and the Holding Company[/crossout]

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 23 2011 08:46 AM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

Molly Hatchet was also a Jacksonville band. Just this morning I was burnishing the Tempted by the Fruit of 1981" list with Nicole from Point Blank (Texas).

Chad Ochoseis Mar 23 2011 08:51 AM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

Black Oak Arkansas is from Black Oak, Arkansas.

Edgy DC Mar 23 2011 08:52 AM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

OK, yeah. I can totally see that.

Frayed Knot Mar 23 2011 08:59 AM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

No way can Skynyrd be ahead of the Allmans in a list of prominence or quality. Slynyrd wasn't even all that popular until they underwent that stereotype best of all career moves -- dying.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 23 2011 09:01 AM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

I'd count .38 Special as a "Southern Rock." They were certainly on the lighter side of it, and seemed to come after the phenomenon was a branded thing, but I do believe they featured the twin-guitar, twin-drummer lineup at least for a while.

Edgy DC Mar 23 2011 09:06 AM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

Frayed Knot wrote: No way can Skynyrd be ahead of the Allmans in a list of prominence or quality. Slynyrd wasn't even all that popular until they underwent that stereotype best of all career moves -- dying. Take it easy, soldier of rock. I clearly state that quality isn't part of the formula. If it was, they'd be, like, eighth. But as for prominence, the legacy that they have now is what we're talking about: two top-ten classic rawk tunes, Kid Rock remaking himself as their disciple, KFC commercials, Ruben Stoddard. Their star in death shines higher on the horizon than it did it in life, true, but shine it does. That's what the surviving Allman Brothers get for surviving. As for .38 Special, it was their eighties-ness that put them onto the auxiliary lineup.

Frayed Knot Mar 23 2011 09:08 AM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

That's what the surviving Allman Brothers get for surviving. Or a couple of them anyway.

Frayed Knot Mar 23 2011 09:18 AM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

Charlie Daniels: The South's Gonna Do It Again Well, the train to Grinder's Switch is runnin' right on time And them Tucker Boys are cookin' down in Caroline People down in Florida can't be still When ol' Lynyrd Skynrd's pickin' down in Jacksonville People down in Georgia come from near and far To hear Richard Betts pickin' on that red guitar Chorus: So gather 'round, gather 'round chillun' Get down, well just get down chillun' Get loud, well you can be loud and be proud Well you can be proud, hear now Be proud you're a rebel 'Cause the South's gonna do it again and again Elvin Bishop sittin' on a bale of hay He ain't good lookin', but he sure can play And there's ZZ Top and you can't forget That old brother Willie's gettin' soakin' wet And all the good people down in Tennessee Are diggin' barefoot Jerry and C.D.B

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 23 2011 09:23 AM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

(begs LWFS to re-publish his new-style Charlie Daniels lyrics)

Edgy DC Mar 23 2011 09:51 AM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

Not every subgenre is blessed with such an explicit and boundary-defining call to arms. That song is practially a Wikipedia article.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 23 2011 10:17 AM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

I owned this song on 45 way back when. Still pretty good! Southern fried soul and harmonies. [youtube:dajqc3ip]9dt3CqJ3AMw[/youtube:dajqc3ip]

Fman99 Mar 23 2011 10:33 AM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

Go back and listen to the Doobie Brothers first self titled album. It's as country rock as you can get, and also quite good listening.

Edgy DC Mar 23 2011 10:42 AM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

They are, soundwise, and certainly seventies-wise, but their Northern California-y-ness kind of puts them into a different zeitgeist in my mind. I think they (and Pure Prarie League, by that measure) go on the "Related Acts" folder. In many ways, the outsiders could be more "southern" than the sourthern rockers.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 23 2011 10:43 AM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

I would remove Big Brother from the associated list. They played experimental psychedelia and added a heavy dose of the blues when Janis joined. The only thing southern about Big Brother is that they were based south (and west) of the Mason-Dixon line, in San Francisco.

Edgy DC Mar 23 2011 10:45 AM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

Yeah, they're probably too far outside the beta-circle. If they're half-in, then the Stones maybe are also.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 23 2011 10:46 AM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

Edgy DC wrote: Yeah, they're probably too far outside the beta-circle. If they're half-in, then the Stones maybe are also. You could probably compile a double album, at least, of Stones country songs.

sharpie Mar 23 2011 10:48 AM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

Elvin Bishop was also a San Francisco guy when he hit. CCR was from Oakland.

batmagadanleadoff Mar 23 2011 10:49 AM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Yeah, they're probably too far outside the beta-circle. If they're half-in, then the Stones maybe are also. You could probably compile a double album, at least, of Stones country songs. Johnny Cash's cover of "No Expectations" rolls like a freight train: [youtube]aXEraKEqKP8[/youtube]

Edgy DC Mar 23 2011 10:51 AM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

sharpie wrote: Elvin Bishop was also a San Francisco guy when he hit. CCR was from Oakland. Ergo, the Associated Acts list.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 23 2011 11:40 AM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: (begs LWFS to re-publish his new-style Charlie Daniels lyrics) Can Geico save you up to fifteen percent on car insurance? Is the "Search" tool ultra-useful? (Nice slam-dunk contest of a thread, off a great feed from FK.)

Frayed Knot Mar 23 2011 12:03 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

So I guess 'Gov't Mule' and 'Derek Trucks Band' are the current bands carrying the flag for the southern boys. Not surprising since both have DNA from the ABB

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 23 2011 12:14 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

As I recall it, the tipping point of "southern Rock" becoming a phenomenon, and referred to as such, was with the K-Tel album SOUTHERN FRIED ROCK, which had a picture of eggs on an iron skillet on the cover. The commercial gave you snippets of all the songs on it and the scroll, and you were like, "Wow. That's a lotta great rock!" I think Jimmy Carter's subsequent failure and the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash helped to kill it, plus the weirdness that grew in its place: The B-52s and REM!

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 23 2011 12:18 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

Where does Little Feat fit in? And Ram Jam? I have to admit... this is one area of rock history I've never really boned up on.

Edgy DC Mar 23 2011 12:24 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

I dunno. Did the Feat actually rock? Was Ram Jam actually southern. It's still coming together. The inclusion of .38 Special suggests they should graduate to the main list, but then you see that 1980 copyright date. The Bellamy Brothers? Uh-uh. Too country. Good call on the shark jump.

TheOldMole Mar 23 2011 12:30 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

[youtube:12bkc1dt]xy8ba2eL7cI[/youtube:12bkc1dt]

Ashie62 Mar 23 2011 12:44 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

Blackfoot was based in Morris County NJ in the seventies. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfoot_(band)

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 23 2011 12:46 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

Edgy DC wrote: The Bellamy Brothers? Uh-uh. Too country. . What a song though. Let that feelin' grab you deep inside and send you reelin' where your love can't hide and then go stealin' through the moonlit nights with your lover

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 23 2011 12:50 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

TheOldMole wrote: [youtube]xy8ba2eL7cI[/youtube] Gotta like the guitar player's t-shirt.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 23 2011 01:19 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

I once won a bet where, if I'd lost, I would have had to make and wear a t-shirt with my name on it for two weeks. (My friend ended up welching on his end-- eating a third party's shaved goatee-- instead paying for my drinks for a weekend or two.) That is some immaculate hair on those guys, too. Not to begrudge them that sheen (that bounce! that life!), but isn't shagginess part of the whole aesthetic?

Vic Sage Mar 23 2011 02:09 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

I loved me some boogie-woogie rockin' in the culturally barren 70s. But its popularity was based on the success of such late 60s-early 70s groups as CANNED HEAT, which may not have been "southern" in geography, but was certainly southern in style. And if your including PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE country-rock (which you seem to have done), then other 70s acts to consider include: - EAGLES - NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE - THE BAND - CCR - POCO - Neil Young - GRATEFUL DEAD

Vic Sage Mar 23 2011 02:16 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

oh, and i forgot one of my faves, right down the middle of "southern rock" - The Henry Paul Band; their album GREY GHOST still rocks. http://www.nutsie.com/song/Grey%20Ghost ... id=7157695

Edgy DC Mar 23 2011 02:19 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

Vic Sage wrote: I loved me some boogie-woogie rockin' in the culturally barren 70s. But its popularity was based on the success of such late 60s-early 70s groups as CANNED HEAT, which may not have been "southern" in geography, but was certainly southern in style. And if your including PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE country-rock (which you seem to have done), then other 70s acts to consider include: - EAGLES - NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE - THE BAND - CCR - POCO - Neil Young - GRATEFUL DEAD Pure Prarie League has already been declared a scratch.

Vic Sage Mar 23 2011 02:27 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

Pure Prarie League has already been declared a scratch. well, never mind then. I still think you should include HENRY PAUL BAND, and LITTLE FEAT.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 23 2011 02:29 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

I'm listening to "Grey Ghost" right now and thinking, this is pretty much "Green Grass and High Tides" all over again ... only to realize that Henry Paul is an x-Outlaw. The Outlaws hail from Tampa, Fla. by the way.

Edgy DC Mar 23 2011 02:34 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

To contain things, I think we should pretty much go with the following necessary conditions: [list][*]Peaking in the seventies[/*:m] [*]A rock lineup and presentation but with country and western twang and influences, though other traditions may well be present.[/*:m] [*]A Dixie origin to the majority of the band.[/*:m][/list:u] Other less necessary conditions that all comers should have one or two of: [list][*]A cultural orientation toward the south:[/*:m] [*]Southern mythology in the lyrics[/*:m] [*]The appearance of [list][*]beer[/*:m] [*]whiskey[/*:m] [*]Confederate flags and uniform fragments[/*:m][/list:u][/*:m] [*]rednekk pride, y'all[/*:m] [*]Southern gothic imagery[/*:m] [*]Bigness --- in sound, yes, but also in the sense of "Lawdamighty, there's 17 fellers up on stage right now!"[/*:m] [*]Southern sentimentality[/*:m] [*]Good ol-boy scrappiness[/*:m] [*]Twelve bar blues: at least three or four times per album[/*:m] [*]Distressed cowboy hats[/*:m][/list:u] I'll add the Hank Paul Band. What's the wisdom of the room on the Feat? They sher got some o' that southern shuffle, but I'm not familiar (and it's my ignorance here) with them ever really RAWKING! Did any body ever get loaded and drive his pickup eighty miles per hour down highway 414 and get his arms sunburned to fuck-yeah go see Little Feat? I'm just asking? I get the impression that the Atlanta Rhythm Section could beat them up, and that might as well be a standard here also. Nobody wussier than The ARS.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 23 2011 02:41 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

I see Feat fans intersecting more with Dead fans than Allman Bros. fans. I think they belong in the Southern Rock Universe for their down-home imagery (and at least one classic SR song, Oh, Atlanta), but they are an outlying planet for sure.

Edgy DC Mar 23 2011 02:44 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

Who's wussier? ARS? Or LF? I take it back. I think the Feat come out on top here.

G-Fafif Mar 23 2011 02:45 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

Point Blank shot to its commercial peak in 1981.

Edgy DC Mar 23 2011 02:50 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

Good point. Checking Wikipedia. Point Blank (Arista) 1976 - includes "That's the Law", and "Distance" Second Season (Arista) 1977 - includes "Stars and Scars" and cover of Bob Seger's "Beautiful Loser" Airplay (MCA) 1979 - includes "Mean to Your Queenie" The Hard Way (MCA) 1980, - includes cover of Deep Purple's "Highway Star" American Exce$$ (MCA) 1981 - includes "Nicole" and "Let Me Stay with You Tonight" On a Roll (MCA) 1982 - includes "On a Roll", "Great White Line", and "Gone Hollywood" Reloaded (Dixiefrog) 2007 - Live album recorded in 2005 Fight On! (Dixiefrog) 2009 - first studio album in 27 years Meat of their catalog skews toward the seventies. But their biggest hit singe comes in 1981. Formed in 1974, sort of second-wavey for a genre whose gods got it going earlier. Their eighties sound wasn't really Southern Rock. This may be a reject.

Frayed Knot Mar 23 2011 03:07 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I see Feat fans intersecting more with Dead fans than Allman Bros. fans. Most definitely. The worst thing about the Dead wasn't the band so much as it was their fans* and when a dead-head would take over the stereo at a college party the only non-Dead music that stood even a remote chance of being played was either Little Feat or New Riders of the Purple Sage. Laid-back hippie music was a different breed than guitar-heavy southern rock even if there were more similarities than fans of either side would like to admit. * insert 'Yankees' or any other least-liked sports team for 'dead-heads' and apply that logic liberally And, yeah, Henry Paul was a break-away from The Outlaws. The more balladic (though still with the requisite lengthy guitar riff) 'So Long' was maybe his/their biggest hit. [youtube]Nyt4Y153OF4[/youtube]

sharpie Mar 23 2011 03:13 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

I think of Little Feat as being a Southern California band and not in the Southern Rock school at all. I don't think Marshall Crenshaw/Lynyrd Skynyrd fans would be happy if one of those band's records were taken off and Little Feat put on instead.

Vic Sage Mar 23 2011 03:16 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

The worst thing about the Dead wasn't the band so much as it was their fans* and when a dead-head would take over the stereo at a college party the only non-Dead music that stood even a remote chance of being played was either Little Feat or New Riders of the Purple Sage. Laid-back hippie music was a different breed than guitar-heavy southern rock even if there were more similarities than fans of either side would like to admit. Agreed, and you might add PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE and HOT TUNA/JORMA to that Deadhead mix. If the deadhead had a momentary spasm of MOR "why are the girls leaving" panic, you might even hear AMERICA.

Vic Sage Mar 23 2011 03:19 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

I don't think Marshall Crenshaw/Lynyrd Skynyrd fans would be happy if one of those band's records were taken off and Little Feat put on instead. um... TUCKER. MARSHALL TUCKER. Crenshaw's a whole other kettle o grits. But if that's the test, i don't think there's alot of crossover between ARS and Molly Hatchett either. but i could be wrong.

Frayed Knot Mar 23 2011 03:20 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

The DH tunnel-vision was almost frightening at times. I remember being at a party where the Rascals 'Good Lovin' came on only to hear some bandanna-ed chick say; 'Hey, who's this band doing a Dead song?'

Vic Sage Mar 23 2011 03:21 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

Frayed Knot wrote: The DH tunnel-vision was almost frightening at times. I remember being at a party where the Rascals 'Good Lovin' came on only to hear some bandanna-ed chick say; 'Hey, who's this band doing a Dead song?' like any other cult. but without the kool-aid.

Vic Sage Mar 23 2011 03:43 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 23 2011 03:46 PM

as for LITTLE FEAT, while they may have had stronger leanings toward a southern-Jazz fusion style, their best album, FEATS DON'T FAIL ME NOW, from 1974, featured such songs as OH, ATLANTA which sounds like any other southern rock band's anthem. I will grant you that Lowell George is more multi-talented musician/writer/producer than most of his contemporaries, but i don't think his obvious superiority should deny him a place on our list. For what its worth (and i'll grant you its not much), most other listings of top "southern rock" bands and songs (from ITunes, wikipedia and other website sources), include some at least cursory mention of a FEAT song. If its simply a matter of George being from southern California, instead of a more easterly section of sub-mason/dixon America, well the keyboard player was from Texas and the Bassist from New Orleans, if that means anything. And i think their peak sound was more associated with New Orleans than L.A. I'm not going to keep putting up a fuss about it; i don't really care that much. But they were a great band, and i think they're close enough to include, without having to open the gates to a flood of others.

Frayed Knot Mar 23 2011 03:45 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

ike any other cult. but without the kool-aid. Which inevitably leads us to the old joke about what one Dead fan said to the other when the drugs ran out? -- "Hey man, this music SUCKS!"

Vic Sage Mar 23 2011 03:47 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

"Hey man, this music SUCKS!" don't get me started on that subject...

metsguyinmichigan Mar 23 2011 03:56 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

Never got the whole Southern rock thing. Then again, I had very varied musical tastes. I liked ALL of Rush's albums. I had a lot of rules when I was kid. Cowboy hat? Gone! Synthesizer-dominated, like Yes, Styx and ELP? Get it out of here! Not named Rush, Aerosmith, Twisted Sister, Led Zeppelin or Kiss? Don't wanna hear it! OK, maybe not that bad. But it sure wasn't good. I always assumed the whole Charlie Daniels/Marshall Tucker thing was a way to flirt with girls since none of them listened to Rush, Aerosmith, Twisted Sister, Led Zeppelin or Kiss. College broadened my musical horizons. That, and Rush started using synths.

Vic Sage Mar 23 2011 04:06 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

Oh, Atlanta - LITTLE FEAT, 1974 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNSV5qWTY_w dixie chicken - 1977 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FekVR_S ... yaVnsmMex4

Willets Point Mar 23 2011 06:34 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

Edgy DC wrote: [*]Bigness --- in sound, yes, but also in the sense of "Lawdamighty, there's 17 fellers up on stage right now!" I'm waiting for a P-Funk/Southern Rock crossover now.

Edgy DC Mar 23 2011 07:14 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

A recent Skynyrd lineup.

Edgy DC Mar 23 2011 09:24 PM Re: AH YEAH! A Crane Pool Guide to Seventies Southern Rawk

Among the greatest testimony to the ascendency of Southern Rock is the number of high profile bands that certainly weren't of that genre but had at least one SR song in their catalog. "Life in the Fast Lane" may have been one more Eagles song about the spiritual emptiness of the Southern California lifestyle, but it was Southern Rocker through and through. Queen had "Fat-Bottomed Girls." Clapton had "Lay Down Sally." It seems like half of Seger's catalog was drenched in Southern rock twang. And seventies non-Southern rockers couldn't help but ape their Southern brethren in their stage talkback. That's why you hear New Yawkas like KISS going "Aw YAY-uh!" on their live albums. And speaking of NYC, here's the lost Southern rock song of the day, live in New York: [youtube:14k5c426]RIw1vck6Bsc[/youtube:14k5c426]