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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 ...
Edward Calhoun King [1] (September 14, 1949 – August 22, 2018) [2] was an American musician. He was a guitarist for the psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock and guitarist and bassist for the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1972 to 1975, and again from 1987 to 1996.
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.
October 20th will mark the 47th anniversary of the plane crash of Southern rock icons Lynyrd Skynyrd. "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Free Bird" are Lynyrd Skynyrd's most notable songs.
"I Need You", by Lynyrd Skynyrd from Second Helping, 1974 "I Need You", by M83 from Divergent: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 2014 ... "I Need You (That Thing ...
"I Need You" (King, Rossington, Van Zant) – 6:53 "Swamp Music" (King, Van Zant) – 3:33 "Sweet Home Alabama" (King, Rossington, Van Zant) – 4:45; Tracks 1 and 5 from Street Survivors (1977) Tracks 2–3 and 8–10 from Second Helping (1974) Tracks 4 and 6–7 from (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) (1973)
Simple Man (Lynyrd Skynyrd song) Swamp Music; Sweet Home Alabama; T. Take Your Time (Lynyrd Skynyrd song) That Smell; Things Goin' On; Truck Drivin' Man (Lynyrd ...