kirk west photo By Steve Newton The spirit of southern rock was alive and well when I was a music-crazed teenager in the seventies. Skynyrd, Hatchet, Blackfoot, Outlaws, Allmans: I ate it up. Then the eighties came along and the sound of the south took a nosedive, popularity-wise. But back in the early '90s the … Continue reading That time I asked Warren Haynes if the spirit of southern rock was alive and well in 1994
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Anybody got a question for ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons?
One of my all-time fave bands from the '70s, ZZ Top, is playing Vancouver on March 22. Their albums made my personal Top 30 charts in 1971, '72, '73, '75, '76, and '79. Sadly, they didn't release any LPs in '70, '74, '77, and '78, not that the seventies had room for even one more shitkicker … Continue reading Anybody got a question for ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons?
Atomic 7 guitarist Brian Connelly can’t stay away from his Gretsch White Falcon
Brian Connelly's snazzy fretwork with Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet helped make that group the leading instro-rock outfit in Canada.
The ghost of Buford Pusser rises on the Drive-By Truckers’ Dirty South
The real-life events portrayed in Walking Tall took place not far from where DBT vocalist-guitarist Patterson Hood grew up in north Alabama.