Help me build a Spotify Playlist.... 70's guitar rock

[locodos 5395]

Help me build a Spotify Playlist....  70's guitar rock

Looking for recommendations for good songs from the 70's- ish (southern rock-ish) that are great driving songs.  Looking for songs in the vein of Whipping Post by the Allman Brothers (I know '69), Freebird, Black Betty, etc...

thanks

[jimmyjazz 46152]

Some of my favorites:

 

"Dreams I'll Never See" Molly Hatchet (Allman Brothers cover)

"Radar Love" Golden Earring

"Carry On Wayward Son" Kansas

"La Grange" ZZ Top

"Couldn't Stand The Weather" Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

"What's Your Name?" Lynyrd Skynyrd

"Don't Fear The Reaper" Blue Oyster Cult

"Black Dog" Led Zeppelin

 

 

OK, the last two aren't exactly southern, but they're great driving tunes.  Same could be said for "Radar Love", but . . .

[Harrison Stafford 3336]

“Gimme Three Steps”  Lynyrd Skynyrd

”Flirting with Disaster”  Molly Hatchet

”Revival”  Allman Brothers

”Take the Highway”  Marshall Tucker Band

”Refugee” Tom Petty

”There Goes Another Love Song”  Outlaws

”Ramblin’ Man”  Allman Brothers 

“Caught Up in You”  .38 Special

”Statesboro Blues”  Allman Brothers 

 

 

[UTCzech III 2907]

Green Grass and High Tides - Outlaws

Never Been Any Reason - Head East

Don't Misunderstand Me - Rossington Collins Band

Nicole - Point Blank

[DalTxHornFan 3117]

Another Man's Woman - Atlanta Rythm Section

Green Grass and High Tides - Outlaws

[Harrison Stafford 3336]

The Black Crowes is southern, but their music is 80’s & 90’s.  Having said that, “Hard to Handle” & “Jealous Again” are worthy of your consideration.

[Celery Man 21001]

 

[jimmyjazz 46152]

Damn, lots of great suggestions here.  I need to take notes.

EDIT:  Point Blank was one of the first "big" bands I ever saw.  I remember the bassist had a target on his guitar, a la later era Zak Wylde.

Edited January 25, 2023 by jimmyjazz

[0xdeadbeef 1652]

 

Triumph just caught the end of the 70s with a 1979 album release....but the song got lot of airplay in the early 80s.

[UTexasFight 9528]

Midnight Rider - Allman Brothers

Jessica - Allman Brothers

Long Hard Ride - Marshall Tucker Band

Take the Highway - Marshall Tucker Band 

Goin Down - Freddie King

Dixie Chicken - Little Feat

I Ain’t Superstitious- Jeff Beck

 

 

[G650 14278]

Ballad of Curtis Loew - Skynyrd

Just Got Paid - ZZ Top

Train Train - Blackfoot

 

8 hours ago, UTCzech III said:

 

Never Been Any Reason - Head East

Fantastic song

[BrickHorn 18285]

Mississippi Queen - Mountain

[Pato del Muerto 52608]

Snortin’ whiskey- Pat Travers

slow and easy- whitesnake

train kept a rollin & back in the saddle- Aerosmith 

Roll on down the highway- BTO

amd I like the outlaws version of ghost riders too

Edited January 25, 2023 by Pato del Muerto

[TornACL 7722]

8 hours ago, UTexasFight said:

Midnight Rider - Allman Brothers

 

 

It's impossible to NOT feel like a bad ass if you're driving down a highway at night listening to this song.

[Deej 76933]

You could just tune your radio to KLBJ-FM.

[UTCzech III 2907]

3 hours ago, G650 said:

 

Train Train - Blackfoot

 

Fantastic song

So is this.

[Dennis Taylor 18874]

I'm bad, I'm nationwide 

ZZ Top

[smuggs 9353]

Am I allowed to go non-Southernish?

 

 

 

 

 

[Pato del Muerto 52608]

Maybe long train runnin’

[G650 14278]

1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Maybe long train runnin’

Why don't you just suggest a Boston song at this point.

[Pato del Muerto 52608]

Just now, G650 said:

Why don't you just suggest a Boston song at this point.

There was already one posted

[G650 14278]

10 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

There was already one posted

[Rimbo 26125]

anything off of Van Halen I or II

but "Ain't Talkin Bout Love" especially

Edited January 25, 2023 by Rimbo

[Al_4_ISU 12487]

"Never Been Any Reason" is a great choice.  My dad and uncle would rock that Head East album whenever my uncle would come home when I was growing up.  Gets played at least 3x a day on Midwestern classic rock stations.

Edited January 25, 2023 by Al_4_ISU

[jimmyjazz 46152]

18 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

anything off of Van Halen I or II

but "Ain't Talkin Bout Love" especially

Or "Panama", because great song but also

Yeah, we're running a little bit hot tonight
I can barely see the road from the heat coming off it
I reach down between my legs and
Ease the seat back

[UTCzech III 2907]

24 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

"Never Been Any Reason" is a great choice.  My dad and uncle would rock that Head East album whenever my uncle would come home when I was growing up.  Gets played at least 3x a day on Midwestern classic rock stations.

Yeah, back in high school (early 80s) there was a cover band in our area that played all the current hits, but they would always end their dances with either "China Grove" (that would be good add to the list too) or "Never Been Any Reason".  

[83Horn 1648]

 

 

 

[WhatTheBuck 28798]

13 hours ago, Harrison Stafford said:

The Black Crowes is southern, but their music is 80’s & 90’s.  Having said that, “Hard to Handle” & “Jealous Again” are worthy of your consideration.

Find a Hard to Handle by the Dead circa ‘70-‘71.

 

[WhatTheBuck 28798]

 

 

[Nuge 1986]

Feels like Billy Squier needs to be included even though he's early 80's and not Southern:

The Stroke

Everybody Wants You

Lonely Is The Night

[TexPx 2324]

Highway Star-Deep Purple

The Night Electricity Came to Arkansas-Black Oak Arkansas

30 days in the Hole-Humble Pie

Born on the Bayou-CCR

You and Me and My GT-Todd Rundgren

Do You Know What I Mean-Lee Michaels

Give it to Me-J. Geils

I’m Your Captain-Grand Funk RR

[locodos 5395]

14 hours ago, Harrison Stafford said:

”Refugee” Tom Petty

Lot of great stuff to go through, thanks for the recommendations and keep'em coming.

If you're going to go Petty, a different choice would be Mudcrutch...

 

[Jerry Callo 8728]

Life in the Fast Lane - The Eagles

[WhatTheBuck 28798]

 

 

[Sawbonz 27589]

Awesome thread. Could easily extend it to 1984

 

Only one ARS mention seems wrong

[Rimbo 26125]

3 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Or "Panama", because great song but also

Yeah, we're running a little bit hot tonight
I can barely see the road from the heat coming off it
I reach down between my legs and
Ease the seat back

but that's 1980s guitar rock 

[cactusflinthead 27603]

Needs more ZZ Top

Heard it on the X 

Nasty Dogs and Funky Kings 

Brown Sugar

Master of Sparks 

 

Others 

Gimme Back my Bullets 

In Memory of Elizabeth Reed 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[jimmyjazz 46152]

21 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

but that's 1980s guitar rock 

Hey, he said "70's- ish".

[Celery Man 21001]

I don’t care if you later clarify southernish or don’t like Boston - every 70s guitar rock playlist includes Long Time.

[Harrison Stafford 3336]

More ZZ Top, you say?  Going back to the beginning for this tune.

[Herpa Derpa 6131]

 

[DoobieWah 1462]

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Deej 76933]

[elguapo 4586]

A lot of great songs on this thread

 

 

 

[Carl Spackler 3504]

Foghat - Fool For The City

[locodos 5395]

17 hours ago, DoobieWah said:

 

 

[MAROON 445]

24 Hours at a Time - Marshall Tucker

Can't You See - Marshall Tucker

There goes another Love Song - The Outlaws

Gator Country - Molly Hatchet

Spooky - Atlanta Rythm Section

LaGrange - ZZ Top

 

a few non-southern rock

Can't You hear me knocking - Stones

Reelin in the years - Steely Dan

China Grove - Doobies

 

[Goredho 17421]

Lotta good stuff from the 70s already mentioned, but will offer up The Joker by Steve Miller band.  Here’s some post 70s that will fit on your playlist.

Change - Blind Mellon

Hard Sun - Indio

Beg Steal or Borrow - Ray Lamontagne

Loner - Ekoustic Hookah

Closer to the Sun - Slightly Stoopid

Lucky Man - The Verve

Vagabond - Wolfmother

[DalTxHornFan 3117]

Man, this thread led me down through a couple of internet surfing time sucks, but this live long version of Another Man's Woman by ARS, with Paul Goddard's amazing bass solo made it all worth it:

 

You've got to love a band that has a lead bass and two lead guitars!

Edited January 28, 2023 by DalTxHornFan

[tbone_ 14165]

Didn’t see this mentioned already but Roll with the changes should def be on your list. Probably my favorite driving song. Richrath’s solo at 4:04 is as 70s guitar rock as it gets, plus you get a bad ass B3 solo