This is a list of Southern rock bands that fall into one of the following four categories, with a sign denoting them as such following the description. * Traditional or mainstream Southern rock bands * * Southern metal bands ** * Bands (rock or hard rock) that cite Southern rock influence ♪ * Bands that may not necessarily be traditional southern rock, but fuse qualities of Southern rock with another genre, making a sort of sub-subgenre Alt. Southern Rock. These fusions include but are not limited to: country, bluegrass, blues, blues rock, boogie woogie, etc. ♫