Southern Fried Rock And Roll With Grits...YUM! Quiz

Answer: a piano tuner

According to their official website's biography page and to Wikipedia, while the band was practicing in a warehouse that the band was using as a rehearsal spot, some of the members noticed an old key ring with the name "Marshall Tucker" on it. The warehouse space had previously belonged to a blind piano tuner by the same name. They liked it so well that they "borrowed" his name for their group.

Answer: 1969

Duane Allman along with his brother, Greg, founded the Allman Brothers Band in 1969. Their first group had been a garage band called the Escorts, with a sound quite similar to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Later they changed their name to the Allman Joys and began a sound that mimicked the style of the band Cream, a band featuring Eric Clapton. Later still, they became known as Hour Glass, and began producing music with a more soulful sound. Finally, they became simply The Allman Brothers Band.

Duane Allman had previously worked as a session guitarist at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama in the late 1960s where he appeared on records by such artists as Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, John Hammond, and King Curtis.

The music of the Allman Brothers has, as a result of their varied music taste, become an iconic and eclectic mix of country, blues, rock and roll and soul.

The Allman Brothers helped to pave the way for the phenomenon known as "Southern Rock Music."

Duane was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1971. Ironically, Berry Oakley, another member of the band, was killed in a motorcycle accident just a few blocks away, in 1972.

Answer: 1936

Charles Edward Daniels was born on October 28, 1936.
His first hit song was a novelty recording called "Uneasy Rider" in 1973. He was also responsible for many other hit songs, including "The South's Gonna Do It Again"; "Long Haired Country Boy" and probably is most famously known for the 1979 smash hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", which reached number three on the Hot 100 charts.

Answer: The Atlanta Rhythm Section

The Atlanta Rhythm Section can trace its beginnings as a group back to 1970 and the town of Doraville, Georgia, a northern suburb of Atlanta. There, a local recording studio was opened called Studio One, and the Atlanta Rhythm Section came into being; first as a session band, and later as a full-fledged group.

During the presidency of Jimmy Carter, they played at the White House, along with other venues, in an effort to keep up a high profile image.

Answer: Lynyrd Skynyrd

Probably one of THE most recognized of bands in the "Southern Rock" genre, Lynyrd Skynyrd "borrowed" the name from a former high school teacher, Leonard Skinner. A short, (very short) list of some of their hits include "Gimme Three Steps", "Tuesday's Gone", "Simple Man", and who could forget one of their earliest smash-hits, "Sweet Home, Alabama"?

Answer: The Outlaws

The Outlaws formed in 1967 by Hughie Thomasson, David Dix, Phil Holmberg, Hobie O'Brien, Frank Guidry, and Herb Pino. Several times during their singing career, the group changed faces, changed names and changed sounds, although it remained true to its roots in the southern rock genre, (with a twist).

While maintaining a mix of country and rock elements, they also showed a fairly unusual vocal harmony among its members, as opposed to the more standardized practice of southern bands that featured just one lead singer.

Answer: The Wet Willie Band

"Keep On Smilin'" was the only song that Wet Willie sang that reached number ten on the Billboard singles chart, although from 1971-1978 they produced several albums featuring their signature blues/rock sound mix.

Answer: ZZ Top

Z Z Tops first album in 1971 was cleverly entitled, "Z Z Top's First Album". Cute.

The song "LaGrange" was written about a bordello in Texas, which was later called "The Chicken Ranch" and which later still, featured in a movie starring Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds.

The band was formed in 1969, but the group, still intact with its original members, was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. They released an album called "Futura" in September 2012.

Answer: the lead singer for the group

The song known both as "Jim Dandy" and alternately "Jim Dandy To The Rescue" was written by a man named Lincoln Chase, and it was first recorded by a rhythm and blues singer, LaVern Baker in 1956, where it reached the top of the R&B chart and ranked 17th on the pop charts in the U.S.

(The song is about a man named Jim Dandy who rescues women from difficult situations.)

In 1966, James (Jim Dandy) Mangrum and other members of The Knowbody Else stole their first set of musical equipment from two different high schools in the area of their hometown of Black Oak, Arkansas, and were subsequently arrested. Afterward they were sentenced to 26 years at the Tucker Prison Farm, but the sentence was later suspended. They then left Arkansas and went to New Orleans, then moved on to Memphis, Tennessee, and later still they made a trek west to Los Angeles, California. In 1970, they released their first album under their new name of Black Oak Arkansas.

Answer: .38 Special

Donnie VanZant, the brother of Ronnie VanZant of Lynyrd Skynyrd fame, is the lead singer for .38 Special, a band that was formed in 1974. Their first major hit song was "Hold On Loosely", which was released in 1981.