Delta Swamp Rock Sounds From The South: At The Crossroads Of Rock, Country And Soul

Long out of print (10 years!), this new edition of Soul Jazz Records' classic Delta Swamp Rock, features a killer all-star line-up of seminal artists who all first blended rock, soul and country together to create a stunning new sound of southern American music in the 1970s. Featuring the Allman Brothers, Dan Penn, Leon Russell, Tony Joe White, Johnny Cash, Bobbie Gentry, Big Star, Link Wray, Area Code 615 and loads more! This album comes as a superb limited-edition gold vinyl double vinyl release complete with extensive original sleevenotes, interviews and exclusive photography, all spread over a 12-page full-size magazine and two bespoke inner sleeves. The works! At the start of the 1970s, a new type of music emerged out of the southern states of Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi and Florida. Southern rock, the creation of young blue-collar white Americans, blended rock, soul, country and blues music together to present a new vision of the south a post-civil rights southern identity complete with a celebration of the regions natural landscape and its way of life. The Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd epitomised the definitive southern rock groups a mixture of blues-rock and country with a southern rebelliousness and attitude. Unfortunately both The Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd were to be struck by tragedy, which would affect the movements rise and fall. The backstory to southern rock is the fact that a number of the people involved in its creation had been c

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Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: Soul Jazz Records Presents
Release Date: 09 June 2023
Genre: Reggae
Label: Soul Jazz Records
Distributor: MGM Music