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 ...
As Oklahoma players celebrated their 23-21 win over Alabama football on Saturday, some familiar songs drifted out of the ...
Abba's "Waterloo" was released in March 1974 as the first single off their second album of the same name. The song won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 for Sweden, and put Abba on the map. It was ...
Sweet tea, stilettos, and second chances, has Reese Witherspoon’s Southern sparkle found new life on streaming?
On an early summer’s day in 1973, while waiting for the last of his bandmates to arrive for rehearsal, Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington unfurled a speculative riff on a sunburst Les Paul.
TUSCUMBIA, Ala. (WSFA) - This June marks the 50th anniversary of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s iconic song “Sweet Home Alabama.” The Alabama Music Hall of Fame is celebrating the iconic band. Images from Lynyrd ...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (TENNESSEE VALLEY LIVING) - The beloved Lynyrd Skynyrd song, “Sweet Home Alabama” is celebrating its 50th anniversary today. You can join The Alabama Music Hall of Fame in celebration ...
“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 ...
Some classic rock songs were controversial before they were completed. For example, a famous backup singer for The Rolling Stones initially refused to work on Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama.” ...