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

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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

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 . . .

“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 

 

 

Green Grass and High Tides - Outlaws

Never Been Any Reason - Head East

Don't Misunderstand Me - Rossington Collins Band

Nicole - Point Blank

Another Man's Woman - Atlanta Rythm Section

Green Grass and High Tides - Outlaws

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 by jimmyjazz

 

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

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

 

 

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

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 by Pato del Muerto

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.

You could just tune your radio to KLBJ-FM.

3 hours ago, G650 said:

 

Train Train - Blackfoot

 

Fantastic song

So is this.

Am I allowed to go non-Southernish?

 

 

 

 

 

1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Maybe long train runnin’

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

Just now, G650 said:

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

There was already one posted

10 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

There was already one posted

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anything off of Van Halen I or II

but "Ain't Talkin Bout Love" especially

Edited by Rimbo

"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 by Al_4_ISU

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

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".  

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.

 

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

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

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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...

 

Awesome thread. Could easily extend it to 1984

 

Only one ARS mention seems wrong

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 

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 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

21 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

but that's 1980s guitar rock 

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

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

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17 hours ago, DoobieWah said:

 

 

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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

 

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

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 by DalTxHornFan

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

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