Goin South

Various Artists - Rock | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 23, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Razor & Tie
• ASIN: B000050XUQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #116,941 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sweet Home Alabama - Lynrd Skynyrd

2. Ramblin' Man - Allman Brothers

3. Bad to the Bone - George Thorogood & The Destroyers

4. Flirtin' With Disaster - Molly Hatchet

5. Hold on Loosely - .38 Special

6. Heard It in a Love Song - Marshall Tucker Band

7. Mississippi Queen - Mountain

8. Keep Your Hands to Yourself - Georgia Satellites

9. Black Water - Doobie Brothers

10. Tuff Enuff - Fabulous Thunderbirds

11. Dixie Chicken - Little Feat

12. Black Betty - Ram Jam

13. Amie - Pure Prairie League

14. Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh

15. My Maria - B.W. Stevenson

16. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band

17. The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hayride Down Southern Rock Streets On Classic Compilation, April 18, 2001

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Anthony G Pizza "trivialtony" (FL) - See all my reviews
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Smartly compiled by Razor & Tie Records (aka "The 70s Preservation Society") and recently certified gold, "Goin' South" is a first-rate drinkin' or driving (not together!) Southern-fried rock compilation. Seven of its 17 tunes rest-stopped Top 10, five in the Top 5. It peeks along the way into the Southern psyche musically and culturally even when its artists aren't all Southern regionally.

It matters little that the Band were Canadians, Joe Walsh was from Ohio (by way of Kansas), or that George Thorogood leads the "Delaware" Destroyers. Songs like "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," the Doobie Brothers #1 "Black Water" and the now-cliched "Bad To The Bone" draw from a Southern music and folklore well stretching from Harriet Beecher Stowe and Margaret Mitchell to Robert Johnson's blues and Burt Reynolds' black Trans Am.

You get Paul Bunyanesque humor and macho mythmaking ("Devil Went Down To Georgia," "Tuff Enuff," "Dixie Chicken"), resilient, Confederate-flag waving spirit (Lynyrd Skynyrd's still-fresh "Sweet Home Alabama," Molly Hatchet's boot-tight rock buzzer "Flirtin With Disaster") even relationship restlessness and wanderlust handled poignantly (Marshall Tucker's 1977 "Heard It In A Love Song," "Amie," "Hold On Loosely") and hilariously (Dan Baird having a good ol' boy time yodeling the Georgia Satellites' #2 1986 hit, "Keep Your Hands To Yourself.")

All this is set to some of classic rock's finest intro riffs from genre giants like Walsh, Skynyrd's Ed King, Mountain's Leslie West, Dickie Betts and Les Dudek (trading riffs on "Ramblin' Man"). You'll miss Southern anthems like "Green Grass and High Tides" and "Free Bird," (not to mention Wet Willie's "Keep On Smilin'" and Elvin Bishop's "Fooled Around and Fell In Love" which would have fit here). But they're better saved for the genre's long-overdue box set; besides, no Southern or classic rock LP collection is complete without them. (This set outranks the sadly deleted "South's Greatest Hits" on Phil Walden's even more sadly deleted Capricorn Records.)

Every song here acknowledges Southern blues/country/rock foundation ("Bad To The Bone" is stonewashed Willie Dixon) or taps it directly (Ram Jam's guitar-thick 1977 take on Leadbelly's "Black Betty."). Country stars like Hank Williams Jr., Travis Tritt, and Brooks & Dunn (who recently covered "My Maria") have folded this music back into their styles. So, while not the broadest Southern music map (its hitchhiking, spaghetti-western cover model notwithstanding), "Goin' South" is a fast, fun hayride down dusty, 70s-80s musical side streets. Highly recommended.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Highway Tunes, January 23, 2001

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Thomas Magnum (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Goin South (Audio CD)

Goin' South is a collection of southern rock songs that contains all the usual supects. "Sweet Home Alabama", "Ramblin' Man", "Dixie Chicken", "Hold On Loosely", "Keep Your Hands To Yourself" and "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" are southern rock staples and anthems. Even though you've probably heard these songs hundreds of times each, they still can excite. I'd have to argue that songs like "Bad To The Bone", "Mississippi Queen", "Rocky Mountain Way" & "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" don't really qualify as true southern rock, but they are all great songs. Goin' South is a great cd to pop into the car stereo for a road trip.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great collection of songs but poor quality., April 5, 2001

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Sherrill Leslie (Bloomington, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews
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Goin' South has a great collection of songs. If you read the list of songs and love this kind of music this is a great CD for you. I love every song on this CD so I snapped up a copy right away. But when I got it home and listened to it I was so disappointed at the production quality. It sounds like they dubbed all these classic rock songs right off an 8-track player. It was so bad I started adjusting the knobs on my stereo thinking something had broken! I switched to another CD just to compare and verified the problem is in the recording. Also, they package this in a cheaper than usual jewel case there is no inside jacket and the cover is printed on cheap paper. I would expect this if it were a... bargain bin special but not at this price!