Jacksonville and the Roots of Southern Rock - Michael Ray Fitzgerald

Written by Michael Ray Fitzgerald
Read by Michael Butler Murray
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

General Information
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Title: Jacksonville and the Roots of Southern Rock
Author: Michael Ray Fitzgerald
Reader: Michael Butler Murray
Audiobook Copyright: 2021-03-23
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Duration: 6 hrs 5 mins
ISBN: 9781666107593
Subjects: Nonfiction

File Information
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Media Format: AAC
Total Files: 1
Total Size: 338 MB
Bitrate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Channels: Stereo

Book Description
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The enduring achievement and legacy of a rock movement

The Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd helped usher in a new kind
of southern music from Jacksonville, Florida. Together, they and
fellow bands like Blackfoot, 38 Special, and Molly Hatchet would reset
the course of seventies rock. Yet Jacksonville seemed an unlikely
hotbed for a new musical movement.

Michael FitzGerald blends eyewitness detail with in-depth history to
tell the story of how the River City bred this generation of legendary
musicians. As he profiles essential bands alongside forerunners like
Gram Parsons and Cowboy, FitzGerald reveals how the powerful local AM
radio station worked with newspapers and television stations to
nurture talent. Media attention in turn created a public hungry for
live performances by area bands. What became the southern rock elite
welded relentless determination to a ferocious work ethic, honing
their gifts on a testing ground that brooked no weakness and took no
prisoners.

FitzGerald looks at the music as the diverse soundtrack to a neo-
southern lifestyle that reconciled different segments of society in
Jacksonville, and across the nation, in the late sixties and early
seventies.