The initial music line-up has been announced for the Rock, Ribs, and Ridges Festival, a weekend of the best in southern/classic rock bands with a touch of ...

Like so much rock ‘n’ roll from the earliest and most formative years, Southern rock took a little bit from here and a little ...

Devon Allman’s "Blues Summit U.S. Tour" will open Aug. 7 at the Raising Cane's River Center in Baton Rouge. Allman and Ruf Records announced the tour along with the release of a new album titled ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers Band may define the classic sound, but should we also consider R.E.M. to exist in the same category? They are, after all, a rock band from the South. Neil ...

The American South is a hot mess of cultural contradictions, and while those contradictions have stoked the dumpster fire of U.S. politics for a couple of centuries, they also happen to be fueling ...

INDIANOLA, MS ‒ On the stage at Club Ebony in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, blues artist Alphonso Sanders sings an original song called “Delta Sun,” dedicated to life in a hot and challenging ...

In 2001, the Drive-By Truckers released their third studio album, “Southern Rock Opera.” It was a dream conceived by members of the band before they even officially formed, back in 1998; a kind of ...

Can a band be considered Southern rock if they are not from the South? What if that band isn’t even from America? Foghat brings up precisely this conundrum. The band formed in London, England, in 1971 ...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington, who died Sunday, made it big when rock ‘n’ roll was still a defining cultural force on par with today’s TikTok trends and superhero movies ...

While back, Leigh Ellen Sandlin Cauthen saw an image of a then-new mural outside Macon, Georgia’s H&H Restaurant. H&H is a local soul food spot that in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s provided sustenance ...