Tag: Lynyrd Skynyrd

Classic albums: 1970-1975

Cactus – Cactus (Atco, 1970)

Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath (Vertigo, 1970)

Deep Purple – In Rock (Harvest, 1970)

Ursa Major – Ursa Major (RCA, 1972)

Lynyrd Skynyrd – (Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Erd) (MCA/Sounds Of The South, 1973)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoPGi8uWDb8&list=PLsfmYXk2OnEmJgXTt4Qwmn1_Jig7YvwST

Montrose – Montrose (WB, 1973)

Alice Cooper – Billion Dollar Babies (WB, 1973)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdKlcL9Jquc&list=PL8a8cutYP7fqCJ9MchtwNfN-8SQvM1mCn

The New York Dolls – The New York Dolls (Mercury, 1973)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po-SOprZ7Nc

Bad Company – Bad Company (Island, 1974)

Rick Derringer – All American Boy (Blue Sky, 1974)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcjelba-lLI&list=PLWdIBZFP_vx5Kf3y92hL0IPZMgDwKvdNS

 

Some fine Southern Rock bands

The US South is filled with proud, uncomplicated, honest and hard workin’ people with strong ethics. At least that’s the picture you get listening to most Southern Rock songs. Here we present some great bands from this genre.

Lynyrd Skynyrd is from Jacksonville, Florida. Their eponomous debut (1973) is a classic album. It stands at the beginning of the popularity of a new subgenre: Southern Rock. Lynyrd is best known for signature songs like Sweet Home Alabama and Freebird. But the lyrics of Simple Man, that’s on the debut album, sum up the  Southern man pretty clearly, or at least describes how the Southern man should ideally be. The lyrics can be found here.

Texas Point Blank isn’t a very widely known band. In the second half of the 1970’s they made two semi-classic albums, Point Blank (1976) and its successor Second Season (1977).… Read the rest