Southern rock was around before Lynyrd Skynyrd released their ... No other Southern rock band was as nuanced as Skynyrd in their prime. Several years after the accident (which occurred just ...
There was no shortage of talent or personalities among the musicians in ‘70s Lynyrd Skynyrd. But unlike some other huge bands of that era, songs not people were the real stars of Skynyrd.
He obviously wasn’t the last. It was 50 years ago, in the summer of 1974, that Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” first played on radio stations across America. It was released as a ...