I forgot to post earlier that I saw a CD for sale called Best Of Southern Rock.
There are only 10 songs on the CD and one of them is Smokin' In the Boy's Room by Brownsville Station, a Michigan band from Ann Arbor. That's only a 55 minute drive for me, but it is south of here.
Cub Koda, the lead singer, guitarist, harmonica player, co-writer, and all-around wild-man, was a native of Detroit. He previously formed several bands when he was at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, a literal pain in the butt 7 hour drive from Detroit, and definitely not in the south. The only thing Marquette is south of is Lake Superior and not by very much. You can probably see the lake, to the east if not the north, from the university campus.
Another song is Slow Ride by Foghat from London, England, United Kingdom. They didn't sound like southerners to me and I never thought of them as a southern rock band. Another song is Dixie Chicken by Little Feat from Los Angeles, California. You could say they sometimes played a southern rock style, like Creedence Clearwater Revival from El Cerrito, California in the San Francisco Bay Area did. So with only 7 songs from southern bands, and one band from a completely different continent, I wouldn't call this the definitive Southern Rock collection. Ed King, writer of Born To Run, was a guitarist for psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock from Los Angeles, California, and guitarist and bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1972 to 1975 and again from 1987 to 1996, so that makes it a southern rock song.
Track Listing
1. Born To Run - Lynyrd Skynyrd
2. Slow Ride (Single Version) - Foghat
3. Jim Dandy - Black Oak Arkansas
4. Dixie Chicken - Little Feat
5. Bring Down The Hammer - Georgia Satellites
6. Smokin' In the Boy's Room - Brownsville Station
7. Brickyard Road l - Johnny Van Zant
8. Queen Of Memphis - Confederate Railroad
9. Highway Song (Single Version) - Blackfoot
10. Mississippi Moon Dog - Molly Hatchet