“Sweet Home Alabama” is a Southern rock classic, and rightly so. Alabama people aren’t surprised to hear Lynyrd Skynyrd’s familiar anthem playing in bars, at football games, in supermarkets, in ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd’s anthemic “Sweet Home Alabama” was released 50 years ago on June 24, 1974. It was the band’s highest-charting song, reaching No. 8 on the Billboard Top 100, and went on to become a ...

Sitting in the control room of a recording studio in suburban Atlanta, listening to the opening of a new song from a band that most of America hadn't even heard of yet, Rodney Mills did what the lead ...

Very few Americans would have trouble recognizing the opening notes of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s iconic anthem, “Sweet Home Alabama.” And when they do recognize it, they typically “turn it up,” as the singer ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd’s response came four years later on Second Helping. “Sweet Home Alabama” name-dropped the Canadian singer-songwriter directly, saying, and I hope Neil Young will remember a Southern man ...