Title: The duality of the Southern thing.
Product review: Sometimes great art is built from remembrance of things past and "Southern Rock Opera" evokes the American South of the 1970s through an oddly affecting homage to Lynyrd Skynyrd. It is hard to explain what it feels like to be of a male white Southerner of a certain age, but one could do much worse than to hand your non-Southern (ok, Yankee) spouse, or kid, or friend, a copy of "Southern Rock Opera" and disappear for a couple of hours. Patterson Hood's sermon, "The Three Great Alabama Icons" is simply stunning, and worth the price of admission alone. The following track, "Wallace," describing George Wallace's arrival in Hell from Satan's point of view, is truly vicious, hysterically funny, and surely the only song in all of rock music to mention Fob James.
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