Lynard Skynard Eats at the Blue Parrot!



(From left) Ed and Sharon King with Blue Parrot proprietors Regina and Steve LaVere on Friday night.

Bassist Ed King, writer of "Sweet Home Alabama," visited the 'Wood this weekend. The story is that "the chords and two main guitar solos from the song 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." -- courtesy Wikipedia

More from "the free encyclopedia," in case you cared:
"'Sweet Home Alabama' is a song by Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd that first appeared in 1974 on their second album, Second Helping.

"'Sweet Home Alabama' was an answer to two controversial songs, 'Southern Man' and 'Alabama' by Neil Young, which were critical of social conditions in the South. 'We thought Neil was shooting all the ducks in order to kill one or two,' said Ronnie Van Zant at the time (Dupree 1974). Van Zant's musical response, however, was equally controversial, with references to Alabama Governor George Wallace and the Watergate scandal. The debate nonwithstanding, the song has become one of the most popular examples of Southern rock. It reached the top ten of the US charts in 1974 and was the band's second hit single."

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