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. ♫