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Southern rock

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Written by
J.D. Considine
Pop Music Critic, The Toronto Globe and Mail. Author of Van Halen. Coauthor of The Rolling Stone Album Guide.
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Southern rock, popular music style combining blues jams and boogie licks with lyrics declaring fierce regional pride. Its aggressive, unpretentious sound helped revitalize American rock in the 1970s. Rock and roll had been an expression of popular culture in the American South since the days of Elvis Presley, but it was not until the rise of Phil Walden’s Capricorn Records in the early 1970s that Southernness itself was celebrated as a rock and roll virtue....

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