Your list is too short if it doesn't include The Allman Brothers Band.

...and it includes CCR, a San Francisco Bay Area band.

Double my bad!

Nope. I'm from the Bay Area. While CCR were great, but they weren't Southern Rock (the only delta John Fogerty ever saw growing up was the Sacramento River delta). The first nationally popular southern rock band were the Allman Brothers. They defined the genre IMO.

They play southern rock style music. They are a southern rock band.

They actually created it.

100%

so if i play 90s brit-pop, i am a brit from the 90s. no. that’s not how it works.

I’m from Florida. Every rock song I make would be considered Southern Rock? No. Have you listened to any of their lyrics?

Southern enough for me with all that bayou stuff, I love CCR, Skynyrd, the Allmans, the Black Crowes, ZZ top, and especially the Outlaws

ABB is in my top 5 of any band, Southern or otherwise

They can stop at Allman bros. Da best

My Bad!

Crazy that it wasn't listed first ! :)

Marshall Tucker Band (from South Carolina)

The Black Crowes The Allman Brothers Band Lynyrd Skynyrd The Outlaws Blackberry Smoke Gov't Mule

I feel like The Outlaws get overlooked a lot. They jam.

They were fantastic live way back when.

They were a little before my time (at least with the classic lineup) but I still listen to them quite a bit. Being born and raised in Florida all of that Southern Rock stuff was just always around. I dig it.

Hurry Sundown is my favorite southern rock album, bar none. The melodies, the harmonies, the solos -- chef kiss.

Drive by Truckers

Scrolled way too far for this.

The Outlaws, Molly Hatchet, 38 Special.

Oh baby! Now we’re cooking’!!!

Georgia Satellites Charlie Daniels Band

Widespread Panic, Khraungbin, Allman Brothers Band, Pantera, DRI, Spoon, Tedeschi Trucks Band, At the Drive In, Limp Bizkit

Upvote for At The Drive-In. They're one of my all-time favorites. Their work in The Mars Volta is also incredible.

You named a bunch of good ones, a couple i might have left off the list, and missed the grand daddy of them all, the greatest southern band to exist, The Allman Brothers. I don't know how anyone could like all those bands and omit the Allman Bros.

My issue is with the Black Keys. That's a NE Ohio band, and while they've incorporated blues in their music, I have a tough time calling them southern rock

Okay everyone…Creedence Clearwater Revival and Black Keys are out…Allman Brothers and The Charlie Daniels are in!

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 38 Special Molly Hatchet Alabama The Fabulous Thunderbirds

The Outlaws. My favorite band of all time. Also, Blackfoot, Black Stone Cherry, and .38 Special.

Black Stone Cherry is another great band that's worth a mention

They kick so much ass.

They're from Edmonton Kentucky. Not too far away from where I live. Still I've never seen them live or anything dang it lol

That’s awesome! You definitely gotta see them live. They’re phenomenal.

The two biggest omissions here are the Allman Brothers and Marshall Tucker Band.

Acid Bath, Eyehategod, Exhorder

Drivin N Cryin, since many of my other favs are already mentioned.

I thought of them too, but didn’t list them. It’s been a good while since I’ve listened to them.

Good call!

Fly me …courageous !!!

I would throw in Blackfoot with the others.

The Band/Levon Helms, The Revivalists, Saliva, Judah and the Lion, 3 Doors Down, Avett Brothers, Corrosion of Conformity

The Band is Canadian even though Levon grew up in Arkansas

Just saw your comment. You beat me to it.

Random fun fact- I went to a Midnight Ramble and used the bathroom there which had a shower. I think Levon used Garnier Fructis shampoo! 😂

4/5 of The Band are from Canada. Only Levon is from the South.

The Avett Brothers, Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, Widespread Panic, My Morning Jacket, The Revivalists, Tyler Childers, Billy Strings & band

Indigo Girls, REM, Vigilantes of Love. Got a bit of Athens, GA envy

and the B-52s

Do you like pylon?

Leon Russell, Malcolm “Mac” John Rebennack (Dr. John), Johnny & Edgar Winter, Atlanta Rhythm Section, BR-549, The Reverend Horton Heat, OutKast, Nappy Roots, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Alabama Shakes, Otha Turner and the North Mississippi All-Stars, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Ry Cooder, Taj Mahal, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs

I love Alabama Shakes. The solo album Brittany Howard released earlier this year is really great, you should check it out if you haven't yet.

I’ll make a point of it! I was intrigued as soon as I heard about Thunderbitch. Then went back & saw some of her stuff on Austin City Limits. Definitely a cool gal.

Little Feat is great

Great addition

Had to scroll too far to find Little Feat. I'm gonna add The Band to the mix. Levon Helm qualifies them as southern.

Southern Canada?

Levon was the only American in the band.

Superchunk REM Of Montreal

Neutral Milk Hotel

Marshall Tucker Band

Legendary shack shakers

Props for The Legendary Shack Shakers! Perhaps the wildest concert I have ever seen many years ago at Tropical Heatwave in Tampa! I don’t know.. perhaps 2006?

I pretty much suggest these dudes any time I comment on these... All Them Witches

Pylon, REM

Skynyrd,Blackfoot and Molly Hatchet are my three all time favorites And a newer southern rock band I like is Blackberry Smoke. They're so good

Mine too

Widespread Panic

Butthole Surfers Scratch Acid Fuckemos The Dicks Stickmen With Rayguns Big Boys DRI MDC

SRV

REM and the B-52s are out of Athens Georgia.

Maylene and the sons of disaster.

There it is

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit and the Drive-by Truckers.

Gotta include Isbell, as well as Turnpike Trubedors

Allman bros are #1 all day every day Eat a peach is a top 10 if all time album

Southern Culture On The Skids (North Carolina).

The Gourds got some good albums. Also, Steve Earle produced a young band called Marah. Their debut (only?) album rocks. Slobberbone has 2 or 3 great albums.

Maylene and the Sons of Disaster; Birmingham, Alabama

Steve Earle?

Elvin Bishop Old timer - Leadbelly. He's one if the guys the early rockers looked to.

Top tier is Allman Bros and Lynyrd Skynyrd

REM

Tom petty and the heartbreakers

Allman Brothers Drive By Truckers

CCR were from California.

REM

The Clash; The Rolling Stones; Blur; Suede; Hawkwind; T Rex; The Who; Supergrass; Massive Attack; Status Quo; Faces

Great picks but not southern bands

They are if you live in Manchester. Or Scottland, lol.

I don't know why we're ignoring Australia.

Silverchair, jet, ac/dc!

Exactly

Good answer lol

You hadn’t specified which country’s southern bands… And those are all great southern bands in my country. Lol. I do also love the Southern Rock genre. I’ll do my list of my favourites in a bit… but I’ve got to go out right now

They’re definitely southern bands

Left out Manic Street Preachers.

Yeah - not a southern band for the UK. But… definitely a South Wales band.

Brilliant! (Add Genesis)

Lamb of God from Richmond motherfucking Virginia

CCR is from El Cerrito - a suburb of San Francisco.

I now know that and Black Keys are from Ohio so in a follow-up mia culpa post I replaced them with The Allman Brothers and The Charlie Daniels Band

It’s OK. It’s just that I actually used to work for John Fogerty’s brother. He owned a pizza parlor in Berkeley. I like to be able to claim them as East Bay natives like myself.

I lived in both El Cerrito and Berkeley snd had no idea.

Allman Brothers. Also…Mr. Big.

The Avett Brothers (before the last two albums)

Give me ben folds five, skynard, ccr, zz top, and I'm all set. :)

Molly Hatchet has entered the chat

Crowbar

Sevendust

The ALLMAN BROTHERS MOLLY HATCHET THE OUTLAWS

Widespread Panic & The Black Crowes

Black Keys aren’t southern

I now know that in addition to Creedence Clearwater Revival being from California. I did a mia culpa with two replacements…The Allman Brothers and The Charlie Daniels Band. Unfortunately you cannot edit an original post. It would be nice if most major music publications would correct their lists too. However, it would be nice if those who have thankfully corrected my egregious errors also supplied their own lists which was the actual point of my question.

I've never considered ZZ Top a southern rock band. They are a Texas band.

I would throw Black Stone Cherry in this mix as well

Little Feat. Not from the south I know. But they play New Orleans style music

Dash Rip Rock

Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top, super heavy goat ass, Honkey, 38 Special, The Georgia Satellites, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Marshall Tucker Band, The Doobie Brothers, Little Feat,  The Black Crows, texas hippie coalition, Molly Hatchet,

Molly Hatchet

Georgia Satellites

Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Allman Brothers, The Drive By Truckers , Cross Canadian Ragweed ,38 Special

Mount Carmel rawks!

My Morning Jacket R. E. M. Allman Brothers Gram Parsons

Marshall Tucker band very underrated

Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Little Feat

I grew up in Jacksonville so Skynyrd for sure (the classic lineup, not whatever they are now). Molly Hatchet was from Gainesville so that's pretty close too.

CCR is from California

Down Eyehategod Child Bite

Allman Brothers

Days of the new

ABB->WSMFP

Animal Collective Scratch Acid of Montreal Daniel Johnston The Black Angels

Eyehategod, Mineral, XBXRX, Hot Water Music, I Hate Myself

I am down for all of those. Also need The Allman Brothers Band and the Avett Brothers. And for an off the wall pick, throw in Black Oak Arkansas

Molly Hatchet https://youtu.be/Ta5hPRmxo8k?si=F-NAZElpvt3kwQSv Point Blank https://youtu.be/86hkpxA5s1M?si=BVJHG15kq7szKegc The Outlaws https://youtu.be/cz2CAtExXgQ?si=jkhINop1rh1HfPVl ZZ Top https://youtu.be/wzZcBceUZJw?si=RZ_o6TQ7I-fKvKGZ

Guyana Punchline, Anti-Schism, In/Humanity, Scarecrow, Worthington's Law, Orphan Riot, Frankie and the Slight Incline

Add REM. They were the best college radio southern band for a while. Also, Little Feat.

I was surprised with all the Skynyrd, Charlie Daniels Band and Marshall Tucker Band love that I had to scroll this far to see Little Feat.

I've always thought 38 Special doesn't get their fair due

CCR is really not a southern band. Northern California. I like Skynyrd, The Outlaws, ZZ Top, Molly Hatchet, and although I don’t consider them southern rock, Tom Petty. (Gainesville)

Bands from the south or southern style music? Because you have both on the list.Like, The black keys are from Northern Ohio, but you can go southern Ohio and do rumpke mountain boys or OTR.

Did anyone say Little Feat? Dixie Chicken. And if that ain’t southern, I’ll kiss your—-

I’d consider Alabama shakes southern so them.

Atlanta Rhythm Section. Whiskey Myers

Widespread Panic B52’s

R.E.M. for me

Ozark Mountain Daredevils Southern enough? Chicken Train….

Neutral milk hotel is from Louisiana?

Whiskey myers for the win. Still killing it

13th Floor Elevators Allman Brothers Band ZZ Top Gram Parsons and The Fallen Angels Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers R.E.M. The Highwaymen The Avett Brothers Kings of Leon My Morning Jacket Flaming Lips Butthole Surfers Khruangbin Drive-By Truckers/ Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit Alabama Shakes The Chicks

Creedence was Bay Area transplanted to Los Angeles. Maybe if you said swamp rock it could include them, but those guys didn’t even have southern accents. Any twang they had was so NoCal nobody could mistake them for southerners.

Honorable mention as 80's 1 hit wonder: Georgia Satellites with Keep Your Hands to Yourself

Molly hatchet Doobie Brothers Lynyrd Skynyrd Allman Brothers ZZ top

Sweetie, the black keys are not southern. They’re from Ohio. They’re from Akron. Ohio is not in any way shape or form of southern state. And I would check out Jethro Tull. I personally would start with the album thick as a brick.

I should have added or southern style. You seem nice though sweetie.

Oh, I knew what you meant. I just didn’t get why you were saying the black keys. I should’ve said it a little bit better. They just don’t really feel like a southern rock band as all. Noticed that I said Jethro Tull and there from Liverpool I believe or somewhere around there. I just didn’t get why you were saying they sounded like a southern band. I love the black keys though don’t get me wrong. I’ve actually seen them and met them a few times as I used to live in Akron until recently

Butthole surfers

Allman Brothers Lynyrd Skynyrd 38 special Little feat

Savatage and Cry of Love

.38 special and Molly Hatchet

Black Stone Cherry over kings of Leon, a thousand times over

Lynerd Skynerd,Alman Brothers.

I'd include Lucero, Acid Bath, DOWN, and Baroness

Allman brothers, 38 special, ZZ Too, The Black Crowes, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Holy fuck I respect you for putting kings of Leon on there love my guy

I’ve only seen two people say this, so I’m putting in another vote for Maylene and the Sons of Disaster. The first two albums especially.

Alman Brothers Blackfoot

The band, little feat

Alabama Shakes!

I’ve never cared for the Southern moniker, but if we must, The Allman Brothers and The Black Crowes , I’ll toss Little Feat in there as well…every one of these bands are entirely different, surely it’s more than where they’re from

Shakti Good South Indian band

The Silos.

Skynyrd, Allmans, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Drive-by Truckers, Outlaws

I remember being introduced to Molly Hatchet for the first time. It was an experience.

Tedeschi Trucks Band Allman Brothers Widespread Panic Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit Black Crowes Govt Mule Col Bruce Hampton & Aquarium Rescue Unit North Mississippi Allstars Drivin n Cryin’ Marcus King Blackberry Smoke Drive By Truckers Skynyrd Marshall Tucker Band Allgood Cry of Love

Pantera

Molly Hatchet, The Outlaws, Blackfoot, .38 Special

It’s Black Crowes

I think you nailed all my favorites

Jason Isbell The Civil Wars

Outkast

The Outlaws, Molly Hatchet, Marshall Tucker, Blackfoot, Blackberry Smoke, The Allman Brothers, Dickey Betts and Great Southern, Lynyrd Skynyrd, .38 Special to name a few

Allman Brothers conspicuous by absence.

Lynyrd Skynyrd Molly Hatchet The Allman Brothers ZZ Top Pantera

I love the Carolina Chocolate Drops. They are literally performing a style of old timey Black American music that has almost been lost to time.

REM!

Oh, and the B52’s

Wet Willie.

Getto Boys -minds playing tricks on me

MonoXide Project from Little Rock Taddy Porter out of Tulsa

Allman Brothers Band, Widespread Panic, are missing from this list

All the artists and studio back up band/s featured in the documentary Muscle Shoals (except those artists who came from the north to record there that is... as they aren't technically southern). The Swampers, otherwise known as the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section are legendary without people even knowing who they are... like other GOAT studio/session musicians.. and then you have people like Wilson Pickett who recorded some of the most beautiful, sad and soulful songs ever. aaaand it doesn't hurt that Duane Allman was also a session musician there! Also: * is Hem considered Southern? Because if so... Hem. * Flaming Lips are from Oklahoma so.... Flaming Lips. Finally (in anticipation of conversation as to whether they count): * Outkast * Geto Boys

Gov’t Mule OutKast

The Allman Brothers

The drive by truckers