Artist	Song
Doug Kershaw	Diggy Diggy Lou
Zachary Richard	Keep Me Jumping
Goose Creek Symphony	Guitar..., Fiddles..., Orange Blossom Special
The Allman Brothers	Ramblin' Man
Black Oak Arkansas	Jim Dandy
Elvin Bishop	Fooled Around and Fell In Love
The Marshall Tucker Band	Heard It In A Love Song
Goose Creek Symphony	The Corn Won't Grow, So Rock and Roll
Doug Kershaw	Louisiana Man
Goose Creek Symphony	Whupin' It
Zachary Richard	High Time
The Allman Brothers	Melissa
Lynard Skynard	Free Bird
The Marshall Tucker Band	This 'Ol Cowboy
Ozark Mountain Daredevils	Jackie Blue
Zachary Richard	Steal A Smile
Tracy Bird	If You Wanna Get To Heaven
Wet Willie	Keep On Smilin'
The Allman Brothers	Little Martha

Comment:

In volume seven I introduce a country-rock 'side loop' to 'Cajun' country-rock (Doug Kershaw and Zachary Richard) and an Appalcachian/mountain connection (Goose Creek) as well as the briefest of introductions to a genre that, in the '70's grew massively popular -- Southern-Rock. Because we're friends, I can admit that I never liked the music of Lynard Skynard, but admit that the song included here was a massive hit.

Country Rock: An Idiosyncratic History July/September 2006 Page 7/12

What is Country-Rock anyway? There are four views:

3. Country-Rock starts with folk and bluegrass as a base and adds a rock orientation.

(Douglas Dillard) "My roots are bluegrass, but we don't have any (one) sound in mind, like rock `n roll or country. We were just writing and recording what we did. Basically we just had a lot of fun." (from Desperado, p.15/16)

4. There are some artists who flirted with country-rock:

"(there were) established rock artists who dabbled in the form as a brief diversion in their musical journeys." (from Desperado, p.16/17)

".country-rock is much more a musician's kind of music. A good number of country-rock musicians were well acquainted with country after playing (folk and) bluegrass in their formative years." (from Eight Miles High, p. 200.)

In summary: (J. D. Souther) "I always thought that what I was trying to do .was modern country music. I'd been listening to the Flying Burrito Brothers, The Byrds, Poco, Dillard & Clark. Those guys had listened to Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, and those guys had listened to the Louvin Brothers, the Carter Family, and Jim & Jesse. It all went back to Celtic folk music. The Line always looked unbroken to me." (from Desperado, p.164)

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