![]() ![]() They are accusatory and condescending, not fully thought out, and too easy to misconstrue,” he wrote. “I don’t like my words when I listen to it. Young liked the song and wrote in his memoir “Waging Heavy Peace” that his song “Alabama” deserved the shot from Lynyrd Skynyrd. But he added: “I’m sure if you asked the other guys who are not with us anymore and are up in rock and roll heaven, they have their story of how it came about.” We put the ‘boo, boo, boo’ there saying, ‘We don’t like Wallace,’” Rossington said. ![]() “A lot of people believed in segregation and all that. George Wallace, but Rossington offered some perspective on those ambiguous lines in a documentary called “If We Leave Here Tomorrow: A Documentary About Lynyrd Skynyrd.” “Sweet Home Alabama” references both Young and Alabama Gov. It was originally written as a response to Neil Young’s “Alabama” and “Southern Man,” a critical rebuke of slavery in the South. Written by Rossington, Van Zant and Ed King, none of whom were from Alabama, the complicated legacy of “Sweet Home Alabama” followed the band for decades. We made ‘Second Helping.’ It had ‘Sweet Home Alabama.’ It made the charts. “We went back to clubs for enough money to get us to the next club. Back then, it was too long,” Rossington told the AP in 1993. ![]() “Radio didn’t play ‘Free Bird.’ It was on the first album. A collection of country-tinged blues-rock and Southern soul, the album included now-classics like “Tuesday’s Gone,” “Simple Man” and “Gimme Three Steps,” but it was the closing track, the nearly 10-minute “Free Bird,” that became the group’s calling card, due in no small part to Rossington’s evocative slide playing on his Gibson SG. Rossington, Burns, Van Zant, and guitarist Allen Collins later gathered at Burns’ Jacksonville home to jam the Rolling Stone’s “Time Is on My Side.”Īdopting Lynyrd Skynyrd as the group’s name - both a reference to a similarly named sports coach at Rossington’s high school and to a character in the 1963 novelty hit “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh” - the band released their debut album “Pronounced ‘Lĕh-‘nérd ‘Skin-’nérd” in 1973. According to their bio in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, it was during a fateful Little League game, Ronnie Van Zant hit a line drive into the shoulder blades of spectator Bob Burns and met his future bandmates. ![]()
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