I've noticed. I'm not sure what happened, hevusa used to be pretty cool.

Please confirm to me that there are still women in Savannah who giggle behind fans when in the presence of a gentleman.

Eh, maybe some of the older women? Have you been to Savannah? It's absolutely beautiful. ALMOST comparable to New Orleans (one of few cities I've experience where the whole "southern hospitality" thing is still in full effect).

Lov savanah

No I hasven't been. I only know it from books and films. I also saw a tv programme recently where Stephen Fry went there for (I think) Thanksgiving and it did look utterly wonderful. As you say, the whole "southern hospitality" thing, mint juleps, people who still used the word "fancy". Anyway, ignore me, I'm getting baked while listening to Derek Trucks. Life is very sweet.

Dude, you need to move to the south! If you're seriously diggin' on some Derek T. you'd enjoy yourself here. The GA music hall of fame happens to be in Macon....tons of uber-cool southern rock stuff (plus the mandatory REM/B-52's memorabilia)....and don't forget the recently renovated BIG HOUSE! < The place the Brother's lived + wrote many songs. It's currently a museum and while I haven't been inside yet, I've ridden past it and it's absolutely beautiful. Big iron gates leading to the driveway adorned w/ a giant mushroom.

We'll turn you into a southern rockin' bluesman w/ a FANCY accent. Just imagine all the women that would be dyin' to fry ya up some chicken and potato salad. I'll be your manager and we'll win, everything. Our glasses of whiskey sours sweatin' from all this humidity. Playing blues on our acoustic guitars in front of the train station right near the river where a statue of Otis Redding (he's from Macon) sits.

Careful. I'm edging dangerously close to sticking on Tuesday's Gone, here.

Not ashamed to admit to Tuesday's Gone being one of my fav's...(should add there's only maybe 4 Skynyrd songs I really dig...)

I absolutely agree. It's probably only that one song by them that I really wholeheartedly like. It's sort of annoying how, over hear at least, Lynard Skynard have become the sort of icons of that whole genre when I'd say they were probably on of my least favourite bands in it. That song though, is amazing.

Curtis Lowe is another one I like a lot...some really good old fashioned story telling going on.

But yeah, Tuesday's Gone....say what ya will about the band, but songwriting is seldom that good. So good it almost seems like a fluke (much like the VU's Venus in Furs)...just unbelievable that something so perfect was ever written to begin with.

Things I forgot I loved about the South -

Their music

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Their art (Howard Finster, my favorite!)



...and so much more.

Thanks, ann ashsway, for this thread. I forgot how to appreciate the South.

it's annoying really. The more that i listen to what's referred to as southern rock the more i realise that i probably don't like it as much as i think i probably should. There's the odd song, but the kind of stuff I really do like, that in many ways fits the template that I have in my head of what a southern rock band should sound like, aren't really considered a part of it. I've been listening to a lot of J. J. Cale, who's obviously never talked about in terms of Southern Rock but the image I have in my head of the south seems far more evident in something like this than anything a band like Skynard did. Very different things, I know. Cale doesn't even qualify as rock, really. It's just people's different perceptions of places, ultimately based on very little (from my part).

Maybe we can arrange a passport swap, between me and Chicka. He can come here and watch all the football he wants while I can go there and marry a soccer mom.

i got as far as walking around downtown then just couldnt be bothered.

Oh, is that why you took the time to respond?
Clearly it had some impact...

Really, it means a lot that you'd take the time to waste yr time on something that you "just couldn't be bothered" by.

Are you challenged? I'm concerned, Jon Boy.

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No, that was the sound of him undoing my zipper. He always knows how to relieve my tension via cyber-love.

I would like the South a lot more if it wasn't so damn humid here...but I love my dual home towns (I live in ATL during the week and Athens during the weekend) and our history...being able to walk around and point to visiting friends and say 'oh, that's where REM rehearses' or 'this is where Fred Schneider hit on me' or 'that's where Olivia Tremor Control recorded'.

rhetoric? you have to be a fucking retard to keep living in the south. it is one of the prerequisites actually. haha

Have you ever even been here? Retards are the ones that believe everything they hear/read, as opposed to experiencing something on their own and coming to an honest/unique opinion that way.

bingo! I don't know exactly what the term "trolling" means, but I think he might apply