It starts with one of the best known guitar riffs in rock and roll. What follows is a down-home ode to the state that is known as the heart of Dixie: folksy colloquialisms, eternal blue skies, family. Pretty simple, right? Maybe not.
Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” cracked the Top 10 back in 1974. Since then, it’s become a kind of anthem for the state and the fight song for for the University of Alabama’s Crimson Tide football team. But its history and meaning are complicated.
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In a way, the song began as a contradiction: It was written by two guys from Florida and one from California, none of whom ever lived in Alabama. So where did members of Lynyrd Skynyrd get the gumption to write about a state they had only driven through? In part, it was because a Canadian got there first. Neil Young’s song “Southern Man,” released in 1971, took the entire South to task for the bloody history of slavery and its aftermath.
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