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"Sweet Home Alabama" is a song by American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on the band's second album Second Helping (1974). It was written in response to Neil Young's songs "Southern Man" and "Alabama", which the band felt blamed the entire Southern United States for slavery; [5] Young is name-checked and dissed in the lyrics.
Second Helping is the second studio album by Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on April 15, 1974. It features the band's biggest hit single, "Sweet Home Alabama", an answer song to Neil Young's "Alabama" and "Southern Man", [2] which reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1974. Second Helping reached #12 on the Billboard album charts. The ...
Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote their song "Sweet Home Alabama" in response to "Southern Man" and "Alabama" from Young's 1972 album Harvest. Young has said that he is a fan of both "Sweet Home Alabama" and Ronnie Van Zant, the lead vocalist for Lynyrd Skynyrd. "They play like they mean it," Young said in 1976.
Judy Van Zant-Jenness stands below a sketch of the late Ronnie Van Zant, the original lead singer of the Southern rock band, Lynyrd Skynyrd. The sketch is part of a monument to the band members ...
One More from the Road (styled as One More For From The Road) is a live album by Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, capturing three shows recorded in July 1976 at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. Since 1974 Lynyrd Skynyrd had supported rock promoter Alex Cooley so that the theatre could be saved from demolition.
The legendary Southern rock band’s former guitarist and co-writer of "Sweet Home Alabama" passed away on Aug. 22. Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Ed King dead at age 68 [Video] Skip to main content
In 1973, Lynyrd Skynyrd was signed to MCA Records and received national exposure following the release of their first album, (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd). The band's popularity soared in 1974 with their follow-up album, Second Helping , which featured their highest-charting single, " Sweet Home Alabama ".
ReAct Now: Music & Relief was a four-and-a-half-hour-long benefit concert which aired on September 10, 2005. MTV, VH1, CMT, MTV2, MTVU, VH1 Classic and The N broadcast the concert for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts via the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army, and America's Second Harvest (which has been changed to Feeding America in 2008).