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Blackfoot
Blackfoot, formed by musicians of Native American heritage including several members who'd played alongside future Lynyrd Skynyrd members in earlier bands, built their sound around a harder-edged, more explicitly hard rock-influenced take on Southern rock than some of their genre contemporaries. Their 1979 song "Highway Song" and 1980 hit "Train, Train" became some of the band's most enduringly popular tracks, reflecting Blackfoot's commercial peak during Southern rock's continued mainstream radio presence into the early 1980s. The band's close personal connections to Lynyrd Skynyrd, including shared early band history among several members before each group's separate formation, reflected the tightly interconnected nature of the Jacksonville, Florida music scene that produced several significant Southern rock acts. Their combination of a harder-rocking sound within the Southern rock tradition and their direct musical lineage connections to Lynyrd Skynyrd's broader scene has made Blackfoot a significant, if somewhat less commercially dominant, part of the genre's classic era.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lynyrd Skynyrd's 1974 song "Sweet Home Alabama," written partly as a musical response to Neil Young's critical songs about the American South, became one of the most enduringly popular Southern rock anthems and a defining expression of regional Southern pride in American popular music. Their extended three-guitar lineup, an unusually large guitar section for a rock band of their era, gave Lynyrd Skynyrd's sound a layered, harmonized intensity that became a defining stylistic feature of Southern rock as a broader genre. A devastating 1977 plane crash killed lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, and several others associated with the band just days after the release of their album Street Survivors, a tragedy that abruptly ended the band's original lineup at the height of their commercial success. Their combination of "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Free Bird," two of the most recognizable Southern rock anthems ever recorded, alongside the band's tragic history, has made Lynyrd Skynyrd the act most closely identified with the entire Southern rock genre.
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