Southern Rock
In the Southern rock department, there have been recent tours or albums
by Little Feat (minus the late Lowell George), the Allman Brothers Band
(minus the late Duane Allman), and Lynyrd Skynryd (minus the many late
members of that band). Perhaps it's some kind of Southern thing that you just
keep carrying on no matter what hardships you encounter along the way, be
they plane crashes, O.D.s, or being married to Cher, but reallyŠ Little Feat
without Lowell is like the Talking Heads putting out an album without David
Byrne (which they've been threatening to do). And when some Skynrd
survivors got together with various acquaintances, relatives and tax
accountants to tour last year, they claimed that it was a one-time-only
"tribute" to the original band. Apparently they discovered that
there were more people willing to pay to hear "Freebird" than
they had originally thought.