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What's Your Name is a compilation album by American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. ... "I Need You" (King, Rossington, Van Zant) – 6:53 "Swamp Music" (King, Van Zant ...
"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 ...
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.
"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.
Wilkeson's death put the group in a difficult position since an agreement with Ronnie Van Zant's widow, Judy Jenness, mandated that at least three of Skynyrd's longtime members would have to appear in order for the band to use the name Lynyrd Skynyrd. Jenness waived this proviso, and the group continued with replacement bassist Ean Evans.
Lynyrd Skynyrd, depicting themselves as just working-class musicians who liked making music at the time, were anxious in the world of record companies, managers, and agents. The song is a message to the people who did not want anything to do with the band during their early years, but became demanding when the band became successful.
Lynyrd Skynyrd lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Gary Rossington wrote "What's Your Name" while in Miami with producer Tom Dowd and Booker T. & the M.G.'s guitarist Steve Cropper. The lyrics depict life on tour for a band and its entourage, and one of the verses is based on a true story of the band drinking at their hotel bar during a ...
"Need All My Friends" is a song written and performed by southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. The song was recorded in May 1969 and released the same year by Shade Tree Records. The song is considered to be the first song the band recorded, with their name spelled as "Lynard Skynard" on the release.