Southern Rock Opera was an album released in 2001 by the Drive By Truckers , a Southern rock band from Alabama. The album is a two-disc set that alternates songs about the career of Lynyrd Skynyrd and how their plane crash led to the downfall of Southern culture in the 1970s, with songs about a man growing up in Northern Alabama in the 1960s and 1970s and his reactions to the tumult of that time. Highlights include "Birmingham", "Zip City", "Plastic Flowers", and "Angels and Fuselages".

The band has a "three-axe attack" (three-guitar lineup), a la Skynyrd.