Jacksonville and the Roots of Souther..., Michael Ray FitzGerald
Jacksonville and the Roots of Souther..., Michael Ray FitzGerald
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Jacksonville and the Roots of Southern Rock

Author: Michael Ray FitzGerald

Narrator: Michael Butler Murray

Unabridged: 6 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/23/2021


Synopsis

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.

About Michael Ray FitzGerald

Michael Ray FitzGerald is a media historian, musician, and former journalist based in Jacksonville, Florida.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bobby

Liked the material covered, but really disliked the telling. The audio was awful.......more

Goodreads review by Armand

I was a fan of Southern rock bands but it was never my favorite. The radio hits for me, growing up in NJ. Now that I live in Jacksonville and can still see the reach of these bands... I'm a bigger fan. Being able to live in the same areas these musicians live (and still live, in some cases) is also......more

Goodreads review by Michael

A brilliant look at Jacksonville, Florida, the hot bed of early Southern Rock.......more

In Jacksonville and the Roots of Southern Rock, musician and media historian Michael Ray Fitzgerald offers a solid argument for why the Bold New City of the South is, if not the origin of Southern Rock, at least the cauldron where it most actively bubbled up. After a brief introduction offering the a......more