Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” has earned its place among the greatest classic rock songs.

A Lynyrd Skynyrd classic has returned to the music charts more than 50 years after it was first released. "Sweet Home Alabama" is the No. 1 song on Billboard's Rock Streaming Songs chart for the week ...

Through the years of 1970 and 1971, legendary singer/songwriter and rock icon Neil Young was dealing with a recurring lyrical theme of the legacy of slavery and continued racism in the American South.

It’s been 50 years since Ronnie Van Zant first implored listeners to turn it up and sing songs about the Southland. "Sweet Home Alabama,” which would certainly be the signature song of any band that ...

CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 1976: Members of Southern Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd (L-R Leon Wilkeson, Billy Powell, Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant and Allen Collins) pose by their trailer backstage at an ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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