How does seventie's southern rock compare with early country rock (Elvis) an!


Question: How does seventie's southern rock compare with early country rock (Elvis) and country rock of today!?
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Whoa-up here a second or two!

Since I started-out playing music, covering the early classic 50's rock-'n'-roll hits of Elvis and Buddy Holly and others, when they were top-of-the charts on the radio; I would have to ask you: what has the classic rock music of Elvis' era, got to do with 70's Southern Fried Rock or the so-called country rock of today!?

It's two completely different genres of rock music from two completely different eras!

Elvis' music is of the get-down on it, cranking rock type characteristic of the sounds of the classic rock, rock-a-billy and R&B music of the 50's and 60's!.

Southern Fried Rock of the 70's was first made famous by bands like: The Alman Brothers, The Marshall Tucker Band, Gram Parsons, Charlie Daniels, Waylon & Willie-(after they hit their Outlaw Music Days), and later, Skynard, and a few other key musicians and bands playing that genre!. The Alman Brothers and the Marshall Tucker band, and Waylon Jennings, usually played a much easier, more flowing, melodic kind of softer rock, that often used a 6/8 half-time basic rhythm base!.

Yes, we can point to artists like: Billy "Crash"Craddock, who
had a 3-4 hits way back in the 50's, then struggled for popularity through the mid and late 60's!.
It was what!? 71 thru 73, when Billy "Crash" Craddock hit the top of the charts with what they called Pure Country Rock hits like: "Knock Three Times"; "I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door"; "Slippin' and Slidin'"; "Ain't Nothin' Shakin" and "Ruby Baby"!. Billy had more hits like: "Rub It In" and "Sweet Magnolia Blossom" in 73-74!.

Still, all Billy's hit music in the 70's was, is: cover versions of classic 50's rock music hits, 2-4 of which, Billy had first had hits with in the 1950's and early 60's! All Nashville did in the early 70's is, record these old rock tunes with classic rock band rhythm section and add a very progressive Steel Guitar and twin fiddles playing hot leads in his band, so they could label it "Pure Country Rock", that it certainly was not!

Just because you add a steel guitar and fiddles to a rock band playing rock music, doesn't make that band a country nor a country rock band! It's simply a rock band that uses traditional country instruments to add a country flavor to the rock music they play!

As far as I'm concerned, that's all the so-called Country Rock music of today is! Just a rock band playing with a couple traditional country music instruments added, to make them sound more country!. It takes no keen ear listening to that music, to see they are NOT country, nor playing country Rock!

In my mind, most of the Country Rock recorded today, doesn't even cut-it as decent pop music or bubble-gum rock! It just sounds like hell froze-over! Same old-same old, song in, song out, album after album, year after year! Maybe new artists singing, same old crap!

So, since you asked me and everyone else here; then I will tell you that; in my opinion: 70's southern rock is a different genre of rock music than the classic rock-'n'roll Elvis did!.
The rocked-up pop country crap they pump off that endless Nashville country music assembly line today; is neither good rock, pop, or country music! With very few exceptions, it's nothing new at all, it just stinks!

So, that's how I would compare these kinds of music and answer your question!

I do thank you for asking a good question! Answering this question has been a lot better challenge for me, than has been some others I contributed answers too, tonight!

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