Friday Night Music--Southern Fried Edition

The seventies was remembered for bad disco music and even worse clothes. The only place disco gets played anymore is weddings and the clothes are pulled out as halloween costumes.

One thing that lived on from that period was great songs written by groups out of the South who melded rock and country into something beautiful.

First is Lynyrd Skynyrd doing Tuesday's Gone live in 1976 at Winterland in San Francisco. The video quality is lacking but the vocals are OK considering it was recorded 30-years ago at the venerable old building the Dead closed a little over two years later. Ronnie's voice was spectacular--too bad he died much too young.



Next, a band I saw a few months ago with Ratdog as an opener--the Allman Brothers. This is from Macon, GA in 1973. I tried to find something from when Duane was still alive but nothing of any quality was found. Statesboro Blues was always one of my faves and this is a decent version with Gregg sounding good and Dicky Betts playing the slide pretty well. It must have been tough to fill Duane's shoes.



Next we have that Little Old Band From Texas, ZZ Top. The later stuff like Legs, etc. did nothing for me but the early stuff was sweet. Here's Jesus Just Left Chicago from Essen, Germany in 1980. Good stuff.



There were others: Molly Hatchett, Blackfoot, etc. who were pivotal but these three broke out and stamped the seventies with the southern sound.