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Lynyrd Skynyrd: Neil Young's Nemesis or Ally?

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*Note: The term "conservative" is used not as a political label, i.e. Repbulican, but as a reflection of ideology.

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Play and listen to a MP3 sample clip of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama", Neil Young's "Alabama" and "Southern Man", Drive By Truckers' "Ronnie and Neil" and Lynyrd Skynyrd's "The Ballad Of Curtis Lowe".

Read more excepts from the book Freebirds: The Lynyrd Skynyrd Story by Marley Brant

A definitive account - Lynyrd Skynyrd: An Oral History by Lee Ballinger


"Sweet Home Alabama" MP3 & MP3's


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Lynyrd Skynyrd: Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock (Paperback) by Gene Odom

View sample pages of Lynyrd Skynyrd: Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock by Gene Odom and Frank Dorman

More Neil Young polls.

More on Drive By Truckers and Patterson Hood and search on Thrashers Blog.

Play and listen to a MP3 sample clip of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "The Ballad Of Curtis Lowe"

Also, more on the Neil Young song "Powderfinger".

More on Neil & Lynyrd on HyperRust and Lynyrd Skynyrd on Wikipedia.

A writer sees Southern rock as refuge from racism in the book "Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race and New Beginnings in a New South" by Mark Kemp.

Also, see Taking Sides Debate: "Southern Man" by Neil Young vs. "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynrd Skynrd.

Also, more on Neil and Ronnie (Ronald Reagan that is).

Free Guitar Lessons - ST-310 • Sweet Home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd) Guitar TAB - with Justin Sandercoe

Also, the 2005 Grammy tribute to Southern Rock with Leonard Skinard and "Sweet Home Alabama".



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