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"A must for
Southern Rock fans, Southern Rock Review contains over 200
pages of album reviews, from the obvious, like The Allman
Brothers Band, Marshall Tucker Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd, to
Molly Hatchet, Blackfoot, The Outlaws, and more. Popoff does
an outstanding job of digging deep and providing factual
information on lesser known, yet equally important groups like
Cowboy, Doc Holliday, Jackyl, The Henry Paul Band and Point
Blank. All of them are rated between a one and a ten, and in
the eyes of this writer, Martin pretty much hits the nail on
the head with his ratings."
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Gritz
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"Popoff reviews
each band's entire catalog, going into interesting and smart
detail about each album and putting the cherry on top with a
rating scale number from 1 to 10. Every band you could
possibly think of that might be even a little Southern rock
(ZZ Top and The Georgia Satellites? Maybe, I guess.), gets
attention in Popoff's book. Just like his 1997 tome, "The
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal," Popoff's opinions are
sharp and funny."
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Blistering.com
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"As for the book
itself, it's the only one I know of that takes Southern rock
seriously as a movement--and it doesn't quiver at doling out
harsh truths as well, such as the self-parody of the recent
Skynyrd output. Actually, I would have liked Popoff to have
expanded his definition a bit (he did include an "If You
Like Southern, You Might Like..." section in the
appendix, which included all the bands that I wish he'd have
fully included) but it was also brave to actually hold himself
to the geography and include only bands that came from the
South itself. Gutsy and idiosyncratic as Popoff always is, his
writing reaches beautiful heights when speaking about the
first solo Dickey Betts album, a gentle, delicate, unassuming
work that reeks genius. Eat a peach, indeed. And buy this
book.”
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Jason
Farrell
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"As always,
Popoff writes with hilarious amounts of knowledge and
personality. His style of writing is his own, eschewing
conventional grammar and sentence structure ("I've toned
down" he says in the intro; yeah right) for another
unique reading experience. My experience in the genre at hand
is limited to the basics, and Southern Rock Review is a great
help to getting my feet in the swamps to check out some more,
with Canada's finest music journalist guiding the
tour."
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Greg
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Jim Dandy To The Rescue!
From The Allman Brothers to ZZ Top, from Florida
to Texas, this is Southern Rock's rich recorded heritage reviewed in one
handy reference guide, each album rated on a scale of 1 to 10, each
review stuffed to the brim with biographical information. As well, check
out the list of the top 122 greatest Southern Rock albums of all time,
as well as a big list of bands that are southern-ish or might appeal to
southern rock fans.
The book contains approximately 410 reviews of Southern Rock albums.
Also included, approximately 150 album cover shots, including many rare,
out-of-print titles! Also included: a ten track CD sampler including
Skynyrd, the Allmans, ARS, Sea Level and more.
Good ol' boys along for the ride include:
-The Allman Brothers
-Duane Allman
-Gregg Allman
-Atlanta Rhythm Section
-Dickey Betts & Great Southern
-The Black Crowes
-Blackfoot
-Black Oak Arkansas
-Cowboy
-The Charlie Daniels Band
-Doc Holliday
-Georgia Satellites
-Gov't Mule
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-Grinderswitch
-Hydra
-Jackyl
-Johnny Jenkins
-Lynyrd Skynyrd
-Mama's Pride
-Marshall Tucker Band
-Molly Hatchet
-Mother's Finest
-Nashville Pussy
-Nitzinger
-Don Nix
-The Outlaws
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-Henry Paul Band
-Point Blank
-Potliquor
-Rossington Collins Band
-Sea Level
-Stillwater
-38 Special
-Johnny Van Zant Band
-Van Zant
-Wet Willie
-Bobby Whitlock
-ZZ Top
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