Southern rock
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Key facts
- Stylistic origins
- Rock and roll blues country
- Cultural origins
- 1960s and early 1970s, Southern United States
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Encyclopedic overview
Duane Allman of The Allman Brothers Band performing in 1971.
Southern rock is a subgenre of rock music and a genre of Americana. It developed in the Southern United States from rock and roll, country and blues, and is focused generally on electric guitars and vocals.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Southern rock” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.