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Southern rock, popular music style combining blues jams and boogie licks with lyrics declaring fierce regional pride. Its aggressive, unpretentious sound helped revitalize American rock in the 1970s. Rock and roll had been an expression of popular culture in the American South since the days of Elvis Presley, but it was not until the rise of Phil Walden’s Capricorn Records in the early 1970s that Southernness itself was celebrated as a rock and roll virtue. Walden, who got his start managing Otis Redding, signed the Allman Brothers Band in 1969. Once the Allmans caught on, Walden capitalized on the notion ...(100 of 358 words)

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