In its 1970s heyday, the genre boasted some of rock music's finest guitarists and lyricists, the vast majority of whom bring a distinctly Southern approach to making tunes. Flip through the ...

Rock music first grew out of the rock’n’roll movement of the 1940s and 50s, which itself was inspired by country and African-American rhythm and blues from the 1920s and 30s. Even from its ...