He obviously wasn’t the last. It was 50 years ago, in the summer of 1974, that Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” first played on radio stations across America. It was released as a ...

Ronnie Dunn — a powerhouse country singer and one half of the duo Brooks & Dunn — teamed with former Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle for the cover of “Sweet Home Alabama,” released on Friday ...

“Thunderstruck” has been Alabama’s intro music ever since. Saban’s successor, Kalen DeBoer, made clear in a TV interview that it’s sticking around, though whoever was in charge of the music at A-Day ...

Ed King, pictured in 2006, co-wrote the hit song Sweet Home Alabama Former Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Ed King, who co-wrote the hit Sweet Home Alabama, has died aged 68. The musician died at home in ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top play Pine Knob Music Theatre next. Get tickets to “The Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour” in Clarkston, ...

trying to learn the beginning of 'Sweet Home Alabama,' on the guitar." With billions of streams, tens of millions of records sold, and the recent introduction of Hell House whiskey, the band keeps ...

A lawsuit accuses Miley Cyrus and others of duplicating a song by Bruno Mars in order to create her hit "Flowers." A closer ...

In 1974, Sweet Home Alabama - a withering response to Neil ... with several former bandmates in the 1980s, before Lynyrd Skynyrd reformed in 1987 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the crash ...

“Dani California” includes six such references, including Alabama. Background: In a 2006 Rolling Stone interview, Steely Dan singer, keyboardist and songwriter, said, “Walter ...

(CNN)-- Billy Powell, keyboardist with the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd ... songs are "What's Your Name," "Freebird" and "Sweet Home Alabama," all released in the 1970s. "Sweet Home Alabama" reached ...

Come on people now, come together for these classics. Forrest, played, of course, by Tom Hanks, is from the great state of Alabama, so there was no way anyone could construct a soundtrack of ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd, known for Southern rock anthems like “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Freebird” and “Simple Man,” previously did a farewell tour in 2019 but still show no signs of slowing down.