Southern rock

family, the hard life of the common man, patriotism, rural life, good times, love, drinking (especially beer), vehicles (especially trucks), and women. Typically, the songs are written in the form of a story, and the singers voice has a prominent Southern accent and twang that matches the strong ringing sound that many of the instruments make. The instruments most commonly used are the acoustic guitar, banjo, bass, fiddle, mandolin, and steel guitar (Jensen). A good example of a song that…

to bring mindfulness into daily living. Taking one’s mind out of the dark abyss of self-doubt, worries, greed, hatred and delusion takes patience and self-love. This value of mindfulness teachings over the years came while doing my first outdoor rock climb. Climbing outdoors had enough differences from my indoor climbing I needed an experienced…

Taylor Shores Ms. Davis College Prep 1 31 March 2017 The King 1961, a youthful Mary, stuck at home with her siblings and loving father while mom takes a trip up to sunny California to visit her sister for the next two weeks. Two long weeks. Despite Mary’s countless attempt to tag along, it was the middle of the school year and no was the final answer. However, a silver lining rose to help pass the time, Blue Hawaii had just come out. Imagine, beaches filled with warm sand and surfers testing…

Hank Williams Jr. was born in Shreveport, Virginia On May 26th, 1949. He started his singing career at the age of 8 and started performing at shows. Hank discovered a new combination of music by combining southern rock and blues with country music which gave him his own unique style of music. Hank’s father died when Hank was three. That didn’t stop him from being the country music star that he aspired to be. Hank started singing at many places and started to become well known. Little did he know…

Over the course of this past summer I have had the opportunity to attend numerous live shows ranging from the traditional deep southern sounds of bluegrass, to the stylistic hard and raw sounds of rock and roll. Standing apart from all the rest, a new up and coming Indie Pop band, put on quite literally the greatest show I’ve ever seen. At that concert I experienced a feeling of true exhilaration. Nothing else can come close to the feeling right before they took stage, when the lights cut out,…

Keith Lionel Urban was born October 26, 1967 in Whangarei, North Island, New Zealand. Urban is the son of Bob and Marienne Urban who together ran a self-owned convenience store. On Urban’s father’s side, his grandfather was a piano teacher and his father played the drums. When Urban was young his family moved from New Zealand to Australia, and this is where Urban’s uncle gave him his first instrument, a ukulele. Both of Urban’s parents loved country music and this is where he developed his taste…

During the 1930’s there was a case of white people against black boys in the town of Paint Rock, AL (Ransdall).” This case was known as The Scottsboro Trials. A novel written by Harper Lee titled To Kill a Mockingbird has a similar plot in which a black man, or Negro, was accused of raping a white woman (Lee). Both of these stories have similarities and parallels that are interesting to indulge in. The social characteristics, stigmas, and opinions if superiority influence the behaviors and…

In the years between 1940 and 1960 country music got a pretty big overhaul. In the 1950’s and 1960’s Country music brought in other genres like Rock and Soul. Country music has always been the most respected form of music due to its evolution over time. In the years leading up to it country music was starting to be played by African Americans who were starting to put their own feel, emotions and…

the historians task to track and explain that change over time and not harken back to a romantic past when everything was “better” or “simpler.” Bayles derides Mick Jagger and Griel Marcus, primarily from his book Mystery Train: Images of American Rock and Roll Music, for their romantic notions of past blues musicians as primitives. However, she also falls into the similar “things were better in the past, because they were simpler” trope that she repudiates in others. Bayles creates a ‘straw…

television show on Saturday afternoons. They were doing so well that the television network, KMID, gave them their own thirty-minute show on Friday nights. The band moved in together and renamed themselves “The Teen Kings” after playing a wide variety of Rock and Roll tunes. A local entrepreneur, Weldon Rodgers, soon approached Orbison. He was impressed with the band and wanted to schedule a recording session. The band agreed and the session was scheduled for March, 4, 1956. At the Norman Petty…