"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.

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama

While this is only a partial recording of the show, two of the three songs are probably the ones you would skip to anyway: "Sweet Home Alabama" and the legendary closing track that has inspired...

Jun 27, 2017 · "Sweet home Alabama/ Where the skies are so blue/ Sweet home Alabama/ Lord, I'm coming home to you" The story of "Sweet Home Alabama" begins not in Alabama but in Jacksonville, Florida. That's where, in 1964, five teenagers formed what would eventually become the iconic rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Watch the official lyric video for “Sweet Home Alabama” by Lynyrd Skynyrd. ‘FYFTY’, the 4CD box set celebrating 50 years of the band is out now! Listen here:...

Sweet Home Alabama Lyrics: One, two, three / Turn it up / Big wheels keep on turnin' / Carry me home to see my kin / Singin' songs about the Southland / I miss Alabamy once again / And I think...

Mar 6, 2023 · Is it a worthwhile rebuttal of Neil Young’s attack, or merely an anxious defense mechanism? “Sweet Home Alabama” is a song that negotiates what it’s like to feel bad about feeling proud.

Jul 20, 2020 · "Sweet Home Alabama," the first song on the classic rock legends' 1974 album Second Helping, deserves a deeper look because, unlike Haggard's ramblings of a local yokel, Van Zant hits on some...

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Sweet Home Alabama · Lynyrd Skynyrd Skynyrd's Innyrds: Greatest Hits ℗ 1974 UMG Recordings, Inc. Released on: 1989-04-30 Producer: Al Kooper...

"Sweet Home Alabama" was the first Lynyrd Skynyrd song to use female backup singers. The three singers were Clydie King (who was rumored to be secretly married to Bob Dylan ), Merry Clayton and Sherlie Matthews, all Black women.