Southern rock

Southern rock is a style of rock music that was very popular in the 1970s, and still retains a large fan base to the present. It developed in the

Southern rock is a style of rock music that was very popular in the 1970s, and still retains a large fan base to the present. It developed in the South of the United States from Rock and Roll and Blues, with a tinge of influence from Country and folk, and is focused generally on electric guitar and vocals.

Rock music's origins lie mostly in the music of Southerners, and many stars from the first wave of 1950s rock and roll such as Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Bo Diddley and Jerry Lee Lewis hailed from the Deep South. But the British Invasion, and the rise of folk rock and psychedelic rock in the middle 1960s, shifted the focus of new rock music away from the rural south and to large cities like Liverpool, London, New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.