Southern Rock Question

[Junior]

The wife and I were watching CMT’s Top 20 greatest southern rock songs show last night and she asks me a question. Who are the current southern rock bands? I had no answer for her. Anyone want to have a go at this one here is the list that CMT put together. Not a bad list I definitely would not have put Sweet Home Alabama above Freebird (maybe that is the redneck in me) but to each there own.


CMT’s Top 20 Southern Rock Songs
20 - The Allman Brothers (Gregg) - I'm No Angel
19 - Charlie Daniels - The South's Gonna Do It Again
18 - The Outlaws - Green Grass And High Tides
17 - The Marshall Tucker Band - Heard It In A Love Song
16 - Blackfoot - Train, Train
15 - The Ozark Mountain Daredevils - If You Wanna Get To Heaven
14 - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Three Steps
13 - Georgia Sattellites - Keep Your Hands To Yourself
12 - Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster
11 - Wet Willie - Keep On Smilin'
10 - Elvin Bishop - Fooled Around And Fell In Love
09 - .38 Special - Hold On Loosely
08 - Little Feat - Dixie Chicken
07 - Hank Williams Jr. - All My Rowdy Friends
06 - The Allman Brothers Band - Midnight Rider
05 - Charlie Daniels - The Devil Went Down To Georgia
04 - The Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See
03 - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
02 - The Allman Brothers Band - Ramblin' Man
01 - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama

[Corona Gigante]

I can't answer that question. But I know a couple of people who can.

[NCRadioMan]

That list pretty much covers the current southern rock bands. Most of them still tour.


NCRM

[ComicBookFreak]

Originally Posted by NCRadioMan

That list pretty much covers the current southern rock bands. Most of them still tour.


NCRM

Hey you forgot Copperhead!!!!

CBF

[Corona Gigante]

Originally Posted by ComicBookFreak

Hey you forgot Copperhead!!!!

CBF

Which reminds me, Steve Earle, Copperhead Road. How can a song about weed, bootlegging, and 'Nam not qualify?

That in turn reminded me of Robert Earl Keen, Jr., The Road Goes On Forever. Maybe the definitive version was recorded by Joe Ely, although a friend of mine saw R.E.K. perform it live, solo, and acoustic at the Cambridge Folk Festival a few years ago. I bet that was something to see.

Edited to add: and what about Dwight Yoakam & Flaco Jimenez, Carmelita?

Nashville Pussy? Rev. Horton Heat? Todd Snider? Junior Brown?

[NCRadioMan]

I consider Down to be a hard southern rock band. Forgot about them.

NCRM

[ComicBookFreak]

I went and Looked up Copperhead on Google. i found a country band from Amarillo Texas. I wonder if they know they took another bands name.

The band I was talking about, Copperhead, all went to the same Highschool as i did and was a Southern Rock band in the '90's. I was good friends with the bassist. Check out this site if you like Southern Rock. i think you guys will enjoy this Bands sound they all went to School with me and these guys rock!!!

http://copperhead.info/

You can listen to some of there music there.

More of their music here:

http://www.myspace.com/90sbandcopperhead

They are:

Neil Carswell - Lead Vocals & Guitar
Jon Byrd - Lead Guitar
Brad Durden - Keyboards
Tony Hawkins - Bass
Eric Suttlemyre - Drums

Enjoy
CBF

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by Corona Gigante

Which reminds me, Steve Earle, Copperhead Road. How can a song about weed, bootlegging, and 'Nam not qualify?

Good call!

How about.....

Skynyrd "Don't Ask Me No Questions"
Skynyrd "I Know a Little"
Steve Earle "Devil's Right Hand"
ZZTop "LaGrange"

[Junior]

Originally Posted by Corona Gigante

Which reminds me, Steve Earle, Copperhead Road. How can a song about weed, bootlegging, and 'Nam not qualify?

I forgot all about Steve Earle he was always playing when I was in high school.

The more I thought about this the more I think most of the southern rock guys have gone to country radio. It's a tough sell to the west coast labels now compared to some of the stuff on the radio now.

Another of my all time favorites is Ballad of Curtis Lowe by Skynyrd (can't find it on any of my cd's). I'm sure I will think of more now that I am looking around. I will have to try and remember to listen to Greg Martins (Kentucky Headhunters) radio show and see what he's playing.

[Junior]

Originally Posted by icehog3

Good call!

How about.....

Skynyrd "Don't Ask Me No Questions"
Skynyrd "I Know a Little"
Steve Earle "Devil's Right Hand"
ZZTop "LaGrange"

Thanks for reminding me I almost always forget about that little ol’ band from Texas.

What about
Tush ZZ Top
My Heads in Mississippi ZZ Top
Black Betty Ram Jam

Did anyone see the tribute that they did to Buck Owens on the Academy of Country Music Awards. That was a killer band Buddy Alan (Bucks son), Dwight Yoakam, Brad Paisley, Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), Travis Barker (blink-182), Tom Brumley (Bucks steel guitar player), and Chris Hilman (Byrds)

[clampdown]

Nothing by the Band?

[AAlmeter]

Montgomery Gentry and Van Zant (bros from 38 spcl and skynyrd, the replacement) are probably the closest from pop country.

Unfortunately, we don't get much good music here in Buffalo....although David Allan Coe is coming up soon.

[chuckojr]

The "Ballad of Curtis Lowe" was always one of my favorites.

[cb25]

speaking as a young-buck...i'm a big fan of steve earle's copperhead road -- just a great song.

some great songs on that list too though.

[bruceolee]

Originally Posted by ComicBookFreak

Hey you forgot Copperhead!!!!

CBF

a highly underrated southern rock band. I saw them in the mid-nineties and they were amazing. I actually just tracked down their CD recently (although it required a bit of searching to find it now ) and here I thought I was the only one thinking about copperhead when I saw this title.