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However, the road to success had several obstacles to overcome, especially the resistance of the most influential broadcasters in the United States to programming groups of Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, among other southern states. Defeat the hegemony of the gangs of California, New York, Michigan, Massachussets, New Jersey, and Illinois it was quite a challenge. Rock also waged its own civil war.
The first group to achieve some notoriety was the band led by the guitarist Duane Allman following the presentations of March 1971 in New York. The album Live At The Filmore East became a cult album for a whole generation of rockers and put the concept of Southern Rock on the media agenda of radio stations in the United States, thanks to memorable themes such as Whipping post, Hot Lanta y Statesboro blues. Part of the charm of these songs, and of 1973 classics like Jessica y Ramblin´ manwas in the feeling of his vocal interpretation, in the use of traditional American folklore melodies, in recovering the steps of Hank Williams with improvisation and virtuosity, especially in guitar and keyboard solos, the particular brand of songs that had no connection to Jefferson Airplane (California) o The Velvet Underground (NY).
The Filmore East album is considered one of the most important live albums in rock (over the years it was reissued in longer and more complete versions), because it was one of the most influential schools for a whole generation of musicians who found in Duane Allman, despite his early death in October 1971, the pastor who guided their dreams and who showed them the path to follow in music. Without going very far the rebirth of Eric Clapton in the seventies owes it to Allman and the feat with Derek & the Dominos.
Southern rock exponents took the pain and suffering of the fathers of the blues and gave their songs an air of modernity and up-tempo rocker, without neglecting the environment and environment where those songs were created. That’s why some have that particular sound and close to country. The rock of the south not only established itself in the most solid states of the country where there was a great irruption of bands since 1973. Its impact crossed geographical barriers and managed to permeate a very broad generation of artists, in various regions of the East and west of the country It is not possible to understand part of the history of artists like the Eagles, Bob Seger, John Fogerthy, Tom Petty, Jackson Browne, Lobo, Seals & Crofts, Bread, America, David Crosby, Neil Young, Robbie Robertson, Linda Ronstadt y ZZ Top without the influence of southern rock.
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