Southern Music

Taz DiGregorio, 30+ year keyboard player of The Charlie Daniels Band, releases his debut solo album, while emphasizing the fact thet he is NOT leaving the CDB!

Spartanburg, SC gave us a lot of great talent, including The Marshall Tucker Band, The Sparkletones, and country star David Ball. Suite 101 spoke to Ball about growing up in the South, life in general, and his hot new CD, "Amigo."

Southen rockers and others respond to the terrorist attacts on New York and Washington, DC.

He’s the most famous “roadie” on the plant, no matter how you slice the pie. Joseph “Red Dog” Campbell, the hard working, hard tripping, hard loving road crew legend has been there since the glory days of Duane Allman and Berry Oakley, and he is still there. Setting up the drums ...

FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, was the studio where all of the greats recorded in the '60's. FRom Aretha Franklin to Wilson Pickett, from Otis Redding to Duane Allman. We spoke with FAME founder Rick Hall's son, Rodney, about the studio's past, present and future.

Col Bruce Hampton is more than just a talented Southern musician. Much more. He is a guru to folks like Jimmy Herring, Derek Trucks and Oteil Burbridge. He is an actor, and a close friend of Billy Bob Thornton. He is also an international man of mystery, a spiritual leader and ...

Suite 101 Editor Michael B. Smith ventured from Greenville, SC to Lincoln, Nebraska for his CD release party on January 14th. Here's the big adventure, the R.D. condensed version.

Randy Smith of The Regulators talks about the band, the loss of his brother, and the music that means so much to him.

Jimmy Hall, founding member of the '70's Southern Rock & r'n'b band Wet Willie, is still making plenty of good music, with his band and as a side man for Hank Williams, Jr. An interview.

Dru Lombar was the front man for one of the South's hottest jam bands during the early 1970's, Grinderswitch. These days he is still rocking with Dr. Hector and the Groove Injectors. We caught up with Dru in his Florida home for the following personal interview.