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Southern rock

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subgenre of rock music and a genre of Americana

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.