Matthew at Active South (who is also SNN’s resident artist) recently recorded a video with him playing ‘Dixie’ on guitar and singing. He adds some additional lyrics to the original version in this video. At the beginning of the video he also mentions a song by the band Seven Nations called ‘Scotland the Brave/Dixie’ which...
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Massachusetts-born rock n’ roller Freddy ‘Boom Boom’ Cannon made a career out of singing songs about the South including ‘Tallahassee Lassie,’ ‘Okefenokee’ and ‘Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy’. His biggest hit was ‘Way Down Yonder in New Orleans,’ which he took to number 3 in the charts in both the US and UK in 1959-60....
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Southern musician Jesse Winchester wrote songs such as ‘Yankee Lady’ and ‘Nothing But a Breeze‘ (see videos below). He was born in Louisiana, grew up in northern Mississippi and Memphis, but had to leave the United States to avoid being pressed into the US military and sent off to war in Vietnam. He was eventually granted...
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If the Southern revolution had a sound track what songs would be on it? This is the question recently posed to my Facebook friends. They helped in compiling the following list. Where possible, each song is linked so that you can make your own Southern revolution soundtrack! Do you know of any songs that...
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I will be the first to admit that I don’t listen to modern country music. I just don’t like it. It all seems over-rehearsed, too poppy and I guess as a New Yorker might say “done already!” I honestly don’t know who is at the top of the country charts. I can’t tell one...
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