There are few bands that have had the ability to define a genre. Lynyrd Skynyrd is among them. Armed with swampy rock riffs, a backwoods boogie style, and the fierce declarations of regional pride ...

JJ Grey writes and records all of his music -- often described as "swamp rock" -- in the backwoods outside Jacksonville, Fla. "I write and arrange at home, which is in a big pecan grove that was ...

While the term once referred to backwoods denizens, hillbilly is now used to describe just about anybody with a Southern accent, from Alabama to Oklahoma, where “Hillbilly Handfishing” originates.

JJ Grey hasn’t released an album for nine years, and his recent record, “OLUSTEE,” is also his first self-produced album. On Jan. 31, he plays at the Vilar Performing Arts Center in support of the ...