Goin' South

Various Artists - Rock

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 23, 2001)
• Original Release Date: January 23, 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Razor & Tie
• ASIN: B000050XUQ
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,160 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd

2. Ramblin' Man - The Allman Brothers Band

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 - The Marshall Tucker Band

7. Mississippi Queen - Mountain

8. Keep Your Hands to Yourself - The Georgia Satellites

9. Black Water - The Doobie Brothers

10. Tuff Enuff - The 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. Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band

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

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

If your idea of the South is a place where white boys rock the blues all night long, then Goin' South will most definitely take you there. From the Allman Brothers' "Ramblin' Man" to the Georgia Satellites' "Keep Your Hands to Yourself," this 17-track collection of '70s and '80s hits is the next best thing to 24-hour Southern rock radio. Like a convoy of golden eight-track memories, the signature songs of rebel rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd, George Thorogood, and Charlie Daniels are accompanied by a handful of lesser offerings (that Molly Hatchet, .38 Special, Marshall Tucker stretch is slow goin') and north-of-the-Mason-Dixon-line ringers such as Mountain and the Band. Sure, the vibe is strictly good ole boy (unless you count Ram Jam's version of Leadbelly's "Black Betty"), but any compilation that can segue from the pop strains of Pure Prairie League's "Aime" to the crunchy goodness of Joe Walsh's "Rocky Mountain Way" can't be all bad. --Bill Forman

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Way the Music Died, April 7, 2001

By	Dave Goldberg (40 miles north of NYC) - See all my reviews

It's rare that an anthology sold on late night television is definitive, but this one is. It leaves out only a couple of significant groups from this genre _ the Amazing Rhythm Aces and the Atlanta Rhythm Section. More important, it demonstrates how basic this genre is to the roots of American music. It's now been divided into blues, country, rock, and what have you. A lot of good music has been lost because the industry decided to split the market into subcategories.

Example: The Band was never considered southern rock (four of its five members were Canadians.) But the group's music was pure Americana. "Black Betty'' sounds like the North Mississippi All Stars and is 180 degrees from Marshall Tucker and Charlie Daniels. But it fits.

One other note: Lynrd Skynrd was usually dissed by highbrow reviewers despite its wonderful rythymic innovation, particularly in "Sweet Home Alabama.'' The Allmans were beloved. Why? They're very similar.

The music industry again?

I digress.

Buy this. It's far more varied than the theme suggests.

PS _ If they used The Band, they also could have used any one of a number of Grateful Dead Cuts.

Yes, a very diverse genre.

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

By	Anthony G Pizza "trivialtony" (FL) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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

By	Thomas Magnum (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)

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.