The 11-song cycle is mostly a meditation on the textures and musical forms that emerged South of the Mason Dixon. What emerges, beyond a woman grappling with a legacy as much in the rich bottom land as her father Johnny’s iconic presence as the voice of America, is a knowing embrace of the conflicts in the things we love. For Cash, the emotions on The River & The Thread are complex and tangled, especially the Grammy-winner’s own difficult relationship with the South, her roots and her own musical journey.
Surrender to the tones, mostly dark, but marked by the occasional glimmer of light, and let the emotions they contain seep inside. With a voice like good claret or damp moss, Rosanne Cash’s singing is something to sink into. Rosanne Cash: The River & the Thread (2014) It’s a laidback, ramshackle country-blues affair, with some of Sahm’s best originals (including “Give Back the Key to My Heart” and “You Can’t Hide a Redneck (Under That Hippy Hair)”), a cover of the country classic “Wolverton Mountain,” and a medley of Gene Thomas songs. In 1976 he crammed those two band names together and made what might be his finest album, squarely within either the Southern-rock or country-rock traditions. You’re probably familiar with his ‘60s band, The Sir Douglas Quintet, and might remember his early ’90s supergroup, The Texas Tornados.
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During his 30-plus-year career, Doug Sahm embodied that conundrum, melting the full range of Texan musical idioms-country, blues, Tejano, rock-into a singular (and singularly powerful) body of work. Is Texas really part of the South? It depends on who you ask, but the answer is no. Sir Doug and the Texas Tornados: Texas Rock for Country Rollers (1976) Here are the 50 Best Southern Rock Albums of All Time:ĥ0. And you can tell us what we missed on our Facebook page. We think this approach results in a more interesting list, celebrating all of the South’s contributions to rock ’n’ roll. As always for these lists, we limit each act to two albums. What follows are the Best Southern rock albums as voted by Paste’s music editors and writers, after long debates on what should qualify. But the inclusion of early rock albums and modern torchbearers like Drive-By Truckers also means we didn’t have room for some roots rock standards like Atlanta Rhythm Section, Boz Scaggs and Dixie Dregs, which you’ll find on most every other list. And bands like Creedence Clearwater Revival and Little Feat, who sound Southern but have no claim to these lands, are also absent. That meant bands like The B-52’s and Of Montreal, who could have come from Mars, aren’t included. As long as the music was undoubtedly Southern (from Texas to the Carolinas, Kentucky to north Florida) and undoubtedly rock, it was on the table. So when we compiled the 50 Best Southern Rock Albums of All Time back in 2018, we made sure the results were a little broader than the usual suspects. They were quickly followed by Southern icons at Memphis’s Sun Studio like Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash, whose early singles were as much rockabilly as country. Bo Diddley, Little Richard and Fats Domino were among the first musicians to put Southern cities on the rock ‘n’ roll map. Today, “Southern rock” means everything from the earthy synths of My Morning Jacket to the future soul of The Alabama Shakes.īut the origins origins of rock in the South also go back much further than Duane Allman playing guitar for the R&B hitmakers at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals in the 1960s. The branches of Southern rock began to creep outward. In college towns like Athens, Ga., and Winston-Salem, N.C., a distinct Southern jangle was emerging, mixing the post-punk of New York, the pop of Big Star, and the roots music that bands like R.E.M., Let’s Active and The dB’s were weaned on. But it was also starting to mean something else. By the ’80s, Southern rock meant ZZ Top, Georgia Satellites and The Black Crowes, reviving the guitar licks of their forebears for a new generation. It was part country redneck, part psychedelic hippie, and it dominated the FM radio stations of my childhood (looking at you 96 Rock). Growing up in Atlanta in the 1970s and ’80s, “Southern rock” meant a very specific thing: long-haired bands like Molly Hatchet, the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynrd playing extended guitar solos with enough bluster to pick a fight at any smoky roadhouse.
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