Sweet Home Alabama

SWEET HOME ALABAMA
 
 
“Sweet Home Alabama”  is a song by Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd that first appeared in 1974 on their second album, Second Helping.  It reached number 8 on the US chart in 1974 and was the band’s second hit single.  The song was written in reply to “Southern Man” and “Alabama” by Neil Young; Young is name-checked in the song’s lyrics.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

Crosby, Stills, Nash and/or Young have released any number of cultural and counter-cultural touchstones over the years, such as “Southern Man” (on Neil Young’s excellent solo album, After the Gold Rush, with Lynyrd Skynyrd good-naturedly answering the song in their hit “Sweet Home Alabama”). 

 

(April 2014)