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From: Michael Bertrand <bertrand@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
List Editor: Michael Bertrand <bertrand@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Editor's Subject: Re: Southern Rock
Author's Subject: Re: Southern Rock
Date Written: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 02:19:06 -0000
Date Posted: Thu, 25 Jan 2006 21:19:06 -0500

I would certainly put the former groups mentioned in
this category but not the others. I think "southern
rock" was/is music that blends southern instrumental
themes and sounds with chord-heavy 70s rock music.
Lyrically, southern rock does and does not include
themes that are part of the southern historical and
cultural landscape. It seems to me that much of
contemporary country music is nothing but southern
rock warmed up a bit. I wouldn't call the Eagles a
southern rock band at all. There's my two-cents worth.

Richard Straw
Radford University
Radford, Virginia

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