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Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Biografie van de kunstenaar Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lynyrd Skynyrd Pronounced /ˌlɛnərd ˈskɪnərd/ LEN-Ərd-SKIN-Ərd Is A Southern Rock Band Formed In Jacksonville Florida USA In 1964. The Band Became Prominent In The Southern United States In 1973 And Rose To Worldwide Recognition Before Three Members And One Road Crew Member Died In An Airplane Crash In 1977. The Band Reformed In 1987 For A Reunion Tour With Lead Singer Ronnie Van Zant's Younger Brother Johnny As The Frontman. Lynyrd Skynyrd Continues To Tour And Record. Of Its Original Members Only Gary Rossington Remains With The Band As Of 2010. The Band Was Inducted Into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame On March 13 2006. History
Early Years In The Summer Of 1964 Teenage Friends Ronnie Van Zant Allen Collins And Gary Rossington Formed The Band "The Noble Five" Which Then Changed In 1965 To "My Backyard" When Larry Junstrom And Bob Burns Joined In Jacksonville Florida. Their Early Influences Included British Invasion Bands Such As Free The Yardbirds The Rolling Stones And The Beatles As Well As Southern Blues And Country & Western Music. In 1968 The Group Won A Local Battle Of The Bands Contest And The Opening Slot On Several Southeast Shows For The California-Based Psychedelic Rock Band Strawberry Alarm Clock. In 1970 Van Zant Sought A New Name. "One Percent" And "The Noble Five" Were Each Considered Before The Group Settled On Leonard Skinnerd A Mocking Tribute To A Physical-Education Teacher At Robert E. Lee High School Leonard Skinner Who Was Notorious For Strictly Enforcing The School's Policy Against Boys Having Long Hair. The More Distinctive Spelling Was Adopted Before They Released Their First Album. Despite Their High School Acrimony The Band Developed A Friendlier Relationship With Skinner In Later Years And Invited Him To Introduce Them At A Concert In The Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum. In 1970 The Band Auditioned For Alan Walden Who Would Later Become Their Manager On The Newly Formed Hustler's Inc. Walden Worked With The Band Until 1974 When Management Was Turned Over To Pete Rudge. The Band Continued To Perform Throughout The South In The Early 1970s Further Developing Their Hard-Driving Blues-Rock Sound And Image And Experimenting With Making Studio Recordings. During This Time They Went Through A Number Of Member Changes With Van Zant Collins And Rossington Remaining The Only Constants. Burns And Junstrom Left The Band And Were Briefly Replaced By Rickey Medlocke On Drums And Greg Walker On Bass. In 1971 With This Lineup They Made Some Recordings At The Famous Muscle Shoals Studio. By The Time They Made A Second Round Of Muscle Shoals Recordings In 1972 Burns Had Rejoined The Band And Leon Wilkeson Had Become Larry Junstrom's Permanent Replacement On Bass With Medlocke And Walker Having Left To Play With The Southern Rock Band Blackfoot. Around This Time The Band Occasionally Played Shows With Both Burns And Medlocke Participating Utilizing A Dual-Drummer Approach Similar To That Of The Allman Brothers. Also In 1972 Roadie Billy Powell Became The Keyboardist For The Band. Peak Years 1973–1977 In 1972 The Band Was Discovered By Musician Songwriter And Producer Al Kooper Of Blood Sweat And Tears Who Had Attended One Of Their Shows At A Club In Atlanta. They Changed The Spelling Of Their Name To "Lynyrd Skynyrd" Pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd And Kooper Signed Them To MCA Records Producing Their First Album Pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd . Leon Wilkeson Left Just Before The Band Was To Record The Album Wilkeson Rejoined The Band Shortly Thereafter At Van Zant's Invitation And Is Pictured On The Album Cover . Citation Needed Strawberry Alarm Clock Guitarist Ed King Joined The Band And Played Wilkeson's Parts On The Album Along With Some Guitar. King Switched To Guitar After The Album's Release Allowing The Band To Replicate The Three-Guitar Mix Used In The Studio. Released January 1 1973 The Album Featured The Hit Song "Free Bird" Which Received National Airplay Eventually Reaching #19 On The Billboard Hot 100 Charts And Is Still Considered A Rock And Roll Anthem Today. Lynyrd Skynyrd's Fan Base Continued To Grow Rapidly Throughout 1973 Largely Due To Their Opening Slot On The Who's Quadrophenia Tour In The United States. On Their 1974 Follow-Up Second Helping The Band Successfully Avoided Sophomore Slump With King Collins And Rossington All Collaborating With Van Zant On The Songwriting. The Album Was The Band's Breakthrough Hit And Featured Their Most Popular Single "Sweet Home Alabama" #8 On The Charts In August 1974 A Response To Neil Young's "Alabama" And "Southern Man." Young And Van Zant Were Not Rivals But Fans Of Each Other's Music And Good Friends Young Even Wrote The Song "Powderfinger" For The Band But They Never Recorded It. Van Zant Meanwhile Can Be Seen On The Cover Of Street Survivors Wearing A Neil Young T-Shirt. The Album Reached #12 In 1974 Eventually Going Multi-Platinum. In July Of That Year Lynyrd Skynyrd Was One Of The Headline Acts At The Ozark Music Festival At The Missouri State Fairgrounds In Sedalia Missouri. In January 1975 Burns Left The Band And Was Replaced By Kentucky Native Artimus Pyle On Drums. Lynyrd Skynyrd's Third Album Nuthin' Fancy Was Released The Same Year. The Album Had Lower Sales Than Its Predecessor And Kooper Was Eventually Fired. Midway Through The Tour Ed King Left The Band Citing Tour Exhaustion. In January 1976 Backup Singers Leslie Hawkins Cassie Gaines And JoJo Billingsley Collectively Known As The Honkettes Were Added To The Band Although They Were Not Considered As Official Members. Lynyrd Skynyrd's Fourth Album Gimme Back My Bullets Was Released In The New Year But Did Not Achieve The Same Success As The Previous Two Albums. Van Zant And Collins Both Felt That The Band Was Seriously Missing The Three-Guitar Attack That Had Been One Of Its Early Hallmarks. Although Skynyrd Auditioned Several Guitarists Including Such High-Profile Names As Leslie West The Solution Was Closer Than They Realized. Soon After Joining Skynyrd Cassie Gaines Began Touting The Guitar And Songwriting Prowess Of Her Younger Brother Steve. The Junior Gaines Who Led His Own Band Crawdad Which Occasionally Would Perform Skynyrd's "Saturday Night Special" In Their Set Was Invited To Audition Onstage With Skynyrd At A Concert In Kansas City On May 11 1976. Liking What They Heard The Group Also Jammed Informally With The Oklahoma Native Several Times Then Invited Him Into The Group In June. With Gaines On Board The Newly-Reconstituted Band Recorded The Double-Live Album One More From The Road At The Fox Theatre Atlanta Georgia In Atlanta And Performed At The Knebworth Festival Which Also Featured The Rolling Stones. Both Collins And Rossington Had Serious Car Accidents Over Labor Day Weekend In 1976 Which Slowed The Recording Of The Follow-Up Album And Forced The Band To Cancel Some Concert Dates. Rossington's Accident Inspired The Ominous "That Smell" - A Cautionary Tale About Drug Abuse That Was Clearly Aimed Towards Him And At Least One Other Band Member. Rossington Has Admitted Repeatedly That He's The "Prince Charming" Of The Song Who Crashed His Car Into An Oak Tree While Drunk And Stoned On Quaaludes. Van Zant At Least Was Making A Serious Attempt To Clean Up His Act And Curtail The Cycle Of Boozed-Up Brawling That Was Part Of Skynyrd's Reputation. 1977's Street Survivors Turned Out To Be A Showcase For Guitarist/vocalist Steve Gaines Who Had Joined The Band Just A Year Earlier And Was Making His Studio Debut With Them. Publicly And Privately Ronnie Van Zant Marveled At The Multiple Talents Of Skynyrd's Newest Member Claiming That The Band Would "all Be In His Shadow One Day." Gaines' Contributions Included His Co-Lead Vocal With Van Zant On The Co-Written "You Got That Right" And The Rousing Guitar Boogie "I Know A Little" Which He Had Written Before He Joined Skynyrd. So Confident Was Skynyrd's Leader Of Gaines' Abilities That The Album And Some Concerts Featured Gaines Delivering His Self-Penned Bluesy "Ain't No Good Life" - The Only Song In The Pre-Crash Skynyrd Catalog To Feature A Lead Vocalist Other Than Ronnie Van Zant. The Album Also Included The Hit Singles "What's Your Name" And "That Smell". The Band Was Poised For Their Biggest Tour Yet Including Fulfilling Van Zant's Lifelong Dream Of Headlining New York's Madison Square Garden. Plane Crash 1977 On Thursday October 20 1977 Just Three Days After The Release Of Street Survivors And Five Shows Into Their Most Successful Headlining Tour To Date Lynyrd Skynyrd's Chartered Convair 240 Ran Out Of Fuel Near The End Of Their Flight From Greenville South Carolina Where They Had Just Performed At The Greenville Memorial Auditorium To LSU In Baton Rouge Louisiana. Though The Pilots Attempted An Emergency Landing On A Small Airstrip The Plane Crashed In A Forest In Gillsburg Mississippi. Ronnie Van Zant Steve Gaines Cassie Gaines Assistant Road Manager Dean Kilpatrick Pilot Walter McCreary And Co-Pilot William Gray Were All Killed On Impact The Other Bandmembers Suffered Serious Injuries. Following The Crash And The Ensuing Press Street Survivors Became The Band's Second Platinum Album And Reached #5 On The U.S. Album Chart. The Single "What's Your Name" Reached #13 On The Single Airplay Charts In January 1978. The Original Cover Sleeve For Street Survivors Had Featured A Photograph Of The Band Particularly Steve Gaines Engulfed In Flames. Out Of Respect For The Deceased And At The Request Of Teresa Gaines Steve's Widow MCA Records Withdrew The Original Cover And Replaced It With A Similar Image Of The Band Against A Simple Black Background. Thirty Years Later For The Deluxe CD Version Of Street Survivors The Original "flames" Cover Was Restored. Lynyrd Skynyrd Disbanded After The Tragedy Reuniting Just Once To Perform An Instrumental Version Of "Free Bird" At Charlie Daniels' Volunteer Jam In January 1979. Collins Rossington Powell And Pyle Performed The Song With Charlie Daniels And Members Of His Band. Leon Wilkeson Who Was Still Undergoing Physical Therapy For His Badly Broken Left Arm Was In Attendance Along With Judy Van Zant Teresa Gaines JoJo Billingsley And Leslie Hawkins. Hiatus 1977–1987 Rossington Collins Wilkeson And Powell Formed The Rossington-Collins Band Which Released Two Albums Between 1980 And 1982. Deliberately Avoiding Comparisons With Ronnie Van Zant As Well As Suggestions That This Band Was Lynyrd Skynyrd Reborn Rossington And Collins Chose A Woman Dale Krantz As Lead Vocalist. However As An Acknowledgment Of Their Past The Band's Concert Encore Would Always Be An Instrumental Version Of "Free Bird". Rossington And Collins Eventually Had A Falling Out Over The Affections Of Dale Krantz Whom Rossington Married And With Whom He Formed The Rossington Band Which Released Two Albums In The Late 1980s And Opened For The Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute Tour In 1987-1988. The Other Former Members Of Lynyrd Skynyrd Continued To Make Music During The Hiatus Era.Leon Wilkeson On Bass And Billy Powellon Keyboards Played In A Christian Rock Band Named Vision Touring With Established Christian Rocker Mylon LeFevre Who Like Skynyrd Had Once Opened For The Who . During Vision Concerts Powell's Trademark Keyboard Talent Was Often Spotlighted And He Spoke About His Conversion To Christianity After The Near-Fatal Plane Crash. Pyle Formed The Artimus Pyle Band In 1982 Which Occasionally Featured Former Honkettes JoJo Billingsley And Leslie Hawkins. In 1980 Allen Collins' Wife Kathy Died Of A Massive Hemorrhage While Miscarrying Their Third Child. He Formed The Allen Collins Band In 1983 From The Remnants Of The Rossington-Collins Band Releasing One Tepidly-Received Album But Many Around Him Believed That The Guitarist's Heart Just Wasn't In It Anymore. Most Point To His Wife's Death As The Moment That Collins' Life Began To Spin Out Of Control He Spent Several Years Bingeing On Drugs And Alcohol. In 1986 Collins Crashed His Car While Driving Drunk Near His Home In Jacksonville Killing His Girlfriend And Leaving Him Permanently Paralyzed From The Chest Down. Collins Eventually Pled No Contest To DUI Manslaughter But Was Not Given A Prison Sentence Since His Injuries Made It Obvious That He Would Never Drive Or Be A Danger To Society Again. Return 1987–present In 1987 Lynyrd Skynyrd Reunited For A Full-Scale Tour With Five Major Members Of The Post-Crash Band Crash Survivors Gary Rossington Billy Powell Leon Wilkeson And Artimus Pyle Along With Guitarist Ed King Who Had Left The Band Two Years Before The Crash. Ronnie Van Zant's Younger Brother Johnny Took Over As The New Lead Singer And Primary Songwriter. Due To Collins' Paralysis From The 1986 Car Accident He Was Only Able To Participate As The Musical Director Choosing Randall Hall His Former Bandmate In The Allen Collins Band As His Stand-In. As Part Of His Plea Deal Collins Would Be Wheeled Out Onstage Each Night To Explain To The Audience Why He Could No Longer Perform Usually Before The Performance Of "That Smell" Which Had Been Partially Directed At Him . Collins Was Stricken With Pneumonia In 1989 And Died On January 23 1990. The Reunited Band Was Meant To Be A One-Time Tribute To The Original Lineup Captured On The Double-Live Album Southern By The Grace Of God/Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute Tour - 1987. The Fact That The Band Chose To Continue After The 1987 Tribute Tour Caused Legal Problems For The Survivors As Judy Van Zant Jenness And Teresa Gaines Rapp Widows Of Ronnie And Steve Respectively Sued The Others For Violating An Agreement Made Shortly After The Plane Crash Stating That They Would Not "exploit" The Skynyrd Name For Profit. As Part Of The Settlement Jenness And Rapp Collect Nearly 30% Of The Band's Touring Revenues Representing The Shares Their Husbands Would Have Earned Had They Lived And Hold A Proviso Which Forces Any Band Touring As "Lynyrd Skynyrd" To Include At Least Two From Among Rossington Collins Powell Pyle Wilkeson And King. Apparently That Proviso Is Not Being Enforced Seeing That Rossington Is Now The Sole Member Of That Group Left In Lynyrd Skynyrd As King Was Not Allowed To Remain In The Band After Missing A Tour Unable To Tour Due To Heart Problems Pyle Is On The Outs With Rossington And Johnny Van Zant And The Others Are Now Dead. Pyle Has Insisted In Public Appearances That "Ronnie Van Zandt IS Lynyrd Skynyrd" And Wishes Nothing To Do With The Current Makeup Of The Band Bearing That Name. Two Other Founding Members Of The Band Remain Alive Original Drummer Bob Burns And Bassist Larry Junstrom Bob Burns But They Have Not Participated In The Post-Crash Band. The Reconstituted Lynyrd Skynyrd Has Gone Through A Large Number Of Lineup Changes And Continues To Record And Tour Today. One By One The Members Of The Pre-Crash Band Have Left Been Forced Out Or Have Passed Away. Artimus Pyle Left The Band In 1991 And His Place Has Been Taken By A Variety Of Drummers Since With Michael Cartellone Finally Becoming His Permanent Replacement. Randall Hall Was Replaced By Mike Estes In 1993. Ed King Had To Take A Break From Touring In 1996. In His Absence He Was Replaced By Hughie Thomasson. King Has Stated That His Break From The Band Was To Be Temporary But The Band Did Not Let Him Rejoin After He Recovered. At The Same Time Mike Estes Was Replaced By Rickey Medlocke Who Had Briefly Played Drums With The Band In The Early 1970's. Leon Wilkeson Skynyrd's Bassist Since 1972 Was Found Dead In His Hotel Room On July 27 2001 His Death Was Found To Be Due To Emphysema And Chronic Liver Disease. He Was Replaced In 2001 By Ean Evans. The Remaining Members Released A Double Album Called Thyrty Which Had Songs From The Original Line Up To The Present. Lynyrd Skynyrd Also Released A Live DVD Of Their Vicious Cycle Tour And On June 22 2004 Lynyrd Skynyrd Released The Album Lyve The Vicious Cycle Tour. On December 10 2004 Lynyrd Skynyrd Did A Show For CMT Crossroads A Concert Featuring Country Duo Montgomery Gentry And Other Genres Of Music. In The Beginning Of 2005 Hughie Thomasson Left The Band To Reform His Disbanded Southern Rock Band Outlaws. Thomasson Died In His Sleep On September 9 2007 Of An Apparent Heart Attack In His Home In Brooksville Florida. He Was 55 Years Old. On February 5 2005 Lynyrd Skynyrd Did A Super Bowl Party Back In Jacksonville With Special Guests 3 Doors Down Jo Dee Messina Charlie Daniels And Ronnie And Johnny Van Zant's Brother Donnie Van Zant Of 38 Special. On February 13 Of That Year Lynyrd Skynyrd Did A Tribute To Southern Rock On The Grammy Awards With Gretchen Wilson Tim McGraw Keith Urban And Dickey Betts. On May 10 2005 Johnny And Donnie Van Zant Released A Country Album Called Get Right With The Man Which Featured The Hit Single "Help Somebody". In The Summer Of 2005 Lead Singer Johnny Van Zant Had To Have Surgery On His Vocal Cord To Have A Polyp Removed. He Was Told Not To Sing For Three Months. On September 10 2005 Lynyrd Skynyrd Performed Without Johnny Van Zant At The Music Relief Concert For The Victims Of Hurricane Katrina With Kid Rock Standing In For Johnny. In December 2005 Johnny Van Zant Returned To Sing For Lynyrd Skynyrd. The Band Performed Live At Freedom Hall In Louisville Kentucky As A Part Of Their 2007 Tour. The Concert Was Recorded In High Definition For HDNet And Premiered On December 1 2007.
The Band In 2008 Mark "Sparky" Matejka Formerly Of The Country Music Band Hot Apple Pie Joined Lynyrd Skynyrd In 2006 As Thomasson's Replacement. On November 2 2007 The Band Performed At Gator Growl The World's Largest Student-Run Pep Rally In Ben Hill Griffin Stadium - Also Known As "The Swamp." The Event's 50 000-Person Attendance Marked The Largest Crowd That Lynyrd Skynyrd Had Ever Played In Front Of In The United States Until The July 2008 Bama Jam In Enterprise Alabama Where More Than 111 000 People Were In Attendance. On January 28 2009 Keyboardist Billy Powell Died At Age 56 At His Home Near Jacksonville Florida. Powell Called 911 At 12 55 A.M. Complaining Of Shortness Of Breath. He Had Previously Missed His Doctor's Appointment On The Day Before His Death The Appointment Was For A Checkup On His Heart. The EMS Responders Found Powell Unconscious And Unresponsive With The Telephone Still In His Hand. Rescue Crews Performed CPR But He Was Pronounced Dead At 1 52 A.M. Although A Heart Attack Was Suspected And It Was Originally Reported That An Autopsy Was To Be Performed None In Fact Was Ever Done. Powell's Death Left Gary Rossington As The Sole Pre-Crash Member Of The Band Unless Rickey Medlocke's Brief Stint With The Band In The Early 1970's Is Counted. On March 17 2009 It Was Announced That Skynyrd Had Signed A Worldwide Deal With Roadrunner Records In Association With Their Label Loud & Proud Records And Released Their New Album God & Guns On September 29 Of That Year. They Toured Europe And The United States In 2009 With Peter Keys Of The 420 Funk Mob On Keyboards And Robert Kearns Of The Bottle Rockets On Bass In Place Of Ean Evans Who Died Of Cancer At Age 48 On May 6 2009 At His Home In Columbus Mississippi . Scottish Rock Band Gun Have Been Confirmed As Special Guests For The UK Leg Of Skynyrds Tour In 2010. Leonard Skinner The Physical Education Teacher Who Inspired The Name Lynyrd Skynyrd Passed Away On September 21st 2010

Frogtoon Muziek - Nummerinformatie: Sweet Home Alabama

Creation And Recording At A Band Practice Shortly After Bassist Ed King Had Switched To Guitar King Heard Fellow Guitarist Gary Rossington Playing A Guitar Riff That Inspired Him In Fact This Riff Is Still Heard In The Final Version Of The Song And Is Played During The Verses As A Counterpoint To The Main D-C 9-G Chord Progression . In Interviews Ed King Has Said That During The Night Following The Practice Session The Chords And Two Main Guitar Solos Came To Him In A Dream Note For Note. King Then Introduced The Song To The Band The Next Day And A Hit Was Born. Also Written At This Session Was The Track That Would Follow "Alabama" On The Second Helping Album "I Need You." A Live Version Of The Track On The Compilation Album Collectybles Places The Writing Of The Song During The Late Summer Of 1973 As The Live Set Available On The Album Is Dated October 30 1973. The Track Was Recorded At Studio One In Doraville Georgia Using Just King Bassist Wilkeson And Drummer Burns To Lay Down The Basic Backing Track. Ed King Used A Marshall Amp Belonging To Allen Collins. The Guitar Used On The Track Was A 1972 Fender Stratocaster. However King Has Said That Guitar Was A Pretty Poor Model And Had Bad Pickups Forcing Him To Turn The Amp Up All The Way To Get Decent Volume Out Of It. This Guitar Is Now Displayed At The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Museum In Cleveland Ohio. The "Turn It Up" Line Uttered By Ronnie Van Zant In The Beginning Was Not Intended To Be In The Song. Van Zant Was Just Asking Producer Al Kooper And Engineer Rodney Mills To Turn Up The Volume In His Headphones So That He Could Hear The Track Better. Following The Two "woo's" Leon's The First Ed's The Second At The Start Of The Piano Solo Van Zant Can Be Heard Ad-Libbing "My Montgomery's Got The Answer." The Duplicate "my" Was Produced By Kooper Turning Off One Of The Two Vocal Takes. For Lynyrd Skynyrd's 1976 Film Free Bird This Final Line Was Changed To "Mr. Jimmy Carter Got The Answer." In A Reference To The 1976 Presidential Election. Citation Needed There Is Also A Semi-Hidden Vocal Line In The Second Verse After The "Well I Heard Mr. Young Sing About Her" Line At Approximately 0 50 . In The Left Channel You Can Hear The Phrase "Southern Man" Being Sung Lightly. This Was Producer Al Kooper Doing A Neil Young Impression And Was Just Another Incident Of The Band Members Messing Around In The Studio While Being Recorded. According To Leon Wilkeson It Was Al Kooper's Idea To Continue And Echo The Lines From "Southern Man" After Each Of Van Zant's Lines. "Better...Keep Your Head"..."Don't Forget What Your / Good Book Says" Etc. But Ronnie Insisted That Kooper Remove It Not Wanting To Plagiarize Or Upset Young. Kooper Left The One Line Barely Audible In The Left Channel. The Count-In Heard In The Beginning Of The Track Is Spoken By Ed King. The Count-In To The First Song On An Album Was A Signature Touch That Producer Kooper Usually Put On Albums That He Made. "Sweet Home Alabama" Was A Major Chart Hit For A Band Whose Previous Singles Had "lazily Sauntered Out Into Release With No Particular Intent." The Hit Led To Two TV Rock-Show Offers Which The Band Turned Down. 2 None Of The Three Writers Of The Song Were Originally From Alabama. Ronnie Van Zant And Gary Rossington Were Both Born In Jacksonville Florida. Ed King Was From Glendale California. Controversy "Sweet Home Alabama" Was Written As An Answer To Two Songs "Southern Man" And "Alabama" By Neil Young Which Attacked Dealt With Themes Of Racism And Slavery In The American South. "We Thought Neil Was Shooting All The Ducks In Order To Kill One Or Two " Said Ronnie Van Zant At The Time. 2 Van Zant's Musical Response However Was Also Controversial With References To Alabama Governor George Wallace A Noted Supporter Of Segregation And The Watergate Scandal In Birmingham They Love The Governor Boo Boo Boo Now We All Did What We Could Do
Now Watergate Does Not Bother Me
Does Your Conscience Bother You?
Tell The Truth In Addition The Final Chorus Rhymes "where The Skies Are So Blue" With "and The Governor's True." In 1975 Van Zant Said "The Lyrics About The Governor Of Alabama Were Misunderstood. The General Public Didn't Notice The Words 'Boo! Boo! Boo!' After That Particular Line And The Media Picked Up Only On The Reference To The People Loving The Governor." 3 "The Line 'We All Did What We Could Do' Is Sort Of Ambiguous " Kooper Notes "'We Tried To Get Wallace Out Of There' Is How I Always Thought Of It." 3 Journalist John Swenson Argues That The Song Is More Complex Than It Is Sometimes Given Credit For Suggesting That It Only Looks Like An Endorsement Of Wallace. 3 "Wallace And I Have Very Little In Common " Van Zant Himself Said "I Don't Like What He Says About Colored People." 3 In 1976 Van Zant And The Band Supported Jimmy Carter For His Presidential Candidacy Including Fundraising And An Appearance At The Gator Bowl Benefit Concert. Muscle Shoals One Verse Of The Song Includes The Line "Now Muscle Shoals Has Got The Swampers/And They've Been Known To Pick A Song Or Two." This Refers To The Town Of Muscle Shoals Alabama A Legendary Location For Recording Popular Music Due To The "sound" Crafted By Local Recording Studios And Back-Up Musicians. "The Swampers" Referred To In The Lyrics Included Among Others Jimmy Johnson David Hood Barry Beckett Roger Hawkins Eddie Hinton Pete Carr And Spooner Oldham Who Crafted The "Muscle Shoals Sound". Sometimes Recording Under The Identity Of The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section These Musicians Included Jimmy Johnson Guitar Roger Hawkins Drums David Hood Bass And Barry Beckett Keyboards And They Were Inducted Into The Alabama Music Hall Of Fame In 1995 For A "Lifework Award For Non-Performing Achievement." The Nickname "The Swampers" Was Given To The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section By Singer/songwriter Leon Russell. Part Of The Reference Comes From The 1971-1972 Demo Reels That Lynyrd Skynyrd Had Recorded In Muscle Shoals With Johnson As A Producer/recording Engineer. Johnson Helped Refine Many Of The Songs First Heard Publicly On The "Pronounced" Album And It Was Van Zant's "tip Of The Hat" To Johnson For Helping Out The Band In The Early Years And Essentially Giving The Band Its First Break. Lynyrd Skynyrd Remains Connected To Muscle Shoals Having Since Recorded A Number Of Works In The City And Making It A Regular Stop On Their Concert Tours.

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