Blackberry Smoke may not be the biggest Southern music group around today, but they are the hardest working act around. They keep up a touring schedule that would make a yankee band cry. Here is their latest release from a soon-to-be-released album. It’s Hammer & Nail.
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Jerry Reed Hubbard had a rough start in and out of orphanages and foster homes around Atlanta after his parents split. He overcame his hardships and became a master guitarist that specialized in complicated riffs no one else could play. (Even his lifelong friend Chet Atkins.) Dropping his last name and appearing as Jerry Reed, his performance and personality carried on past the studio. He is said to be the only man who ever got full pay for a song from Col. Tom Parker.
With 35 albums to his credit, Reed soon expanded to the screen as Gator McClusky’s nemesis, Smokey and the Bandit, and many other roles. Perhaps his best was the colonel in BAT-21. Jerry even appeared on Scooby Doo. But one of my favorite recurring appearances was watching him fish with his friend Bill Dance. Here is Jerry Reed, introduced by Jim Ed Brown at the Grand Ole Opry in 1967 with his signature hit, Guitar Man.
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No one will argue with you that the Allman’s were a driving force in Southern Rock. From their humble beginnings to brother Duane’s untimely death, they overcame. Not only trailblazing innovators, they were outstanding performers and musicians. Here they are live at the Beacon Theater for their 40th Anniversary Show in New York, 2009 with one of their greatest hits, Melissa.
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Whenever you think of Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show you immediately thing of the late Ray Sawyer from Chickasaw, Alabama. Ray donned his trademark eye patch after a car wreck took his eye in 1967. That look is what inspired the band’s name. Ray was also responsible for most of the on-stage shenanigans that made Dr. Hook such a great act, so much in fact that many people believed that he was the ‘real’ Dr. Hook. Ray was a percussionist and usually a back-up singer, but but took the lead on the band’s breakout hit. Ironically, the song was intended as a tongue-in-cheek jab at their treatment by the music industry, but quickly sailed up the charts to #6 in the US and made them plenty of money.
Here’s Ray and the rest of Dr. Hook from Wien, Austria in June of 1974 with the song that finally landed them on ‘The Cover of the Rolling Stone,”
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It’s no secret that George Jones was about my favorite live performer. But he also had a knack for creative and humorous lyrics. My favorite example was The King is Gone. Here’s one that has been the unofficial anthem of the various iterations of Southern Nation News since it first appeared long ago. From 1993, it’s George’s High-Tech Redneck…
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Long Before he was a “30-year overnight success” as a performer, Chris Stapleton was already a prolific and successful song writer with more than 170 credits and many hits you’ve heard great artists perform under his belt before he got the break. Chris grew up in Staffordsville, Kentucky before heading to Nashville, and he’s a devoted family man to his wife, fellow songwriter, Morgane and their five kids.
I’ve always liked his gruff, bluesy style but it’s country and Southern Rock style work that really shines. This latest song got stuck in my head in a hurry. The best way I can think to describe it is ‘Allman-esque’ and that’s not a label I use often. This is “White Horse!”
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Louis Marshall ‘Grandpa’ Jones was known as Grandpa Jones since he was 22 years old (through the magic of radio.) He mastered the claw-hammer style of banjo picking and it carried him around the world. From Mt. View, to the Opry, to HeeHaw, Grandpa Jones was a beloved fixture in Southern music. Here he is introduced by Ernest Tubb to sing one of his signature classics, “Are You From Dixie?”
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