Southern Rock
Southern rock is a style from the American South that combines rock with blues, country and boogie.
It rose to national popularity in the early 1970s. Bands often have two or three lead guitarists who trade long solos and play in harmony, alongside slide guitar, piano and a drawled vocal. The lyrics tend to celebrate Southern places and life. It jams more than country rock and has more country in it than blues rock.
Artists it is known for: The Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Marshall Tucker Band.
- Family
- Rock
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- Southern United States, late 1960s to early 1970s
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 2,000 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have southern rock among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Southern Rock artists
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Whiskey Myers
ZZ Top
The Doobie Brothers
Stevie Ray Vaughan
The Band
Allman Brothers Band
The Marshall Tucker Band
The southern rock artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.