Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd

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“Sweet Home Alabama” is a song by Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd that first appeared in 1974 on their second album, Second Helping. Despite controversy, it reached #8 on the US charts in 1974, and was the band’s second hit single.

This song was the subject of the Fretbase’s first Bedroom Rockstar competition starting on March 22, 2009.

At a band practice shortly after bassist Ed King had switched to guitar, King heard fellow guitarist Gary Rossington playing a guitar riff that inspired him (in fact, this riff is still heard in the final version of the song and is played during the verses as a counterpoint to the main D-C+9-G chord progression). In interviews, Ed King has said that, during the night following the practice session, the chords and two main guitar solos came to him in a dream, note for note. King then introduced the song to the band the next day, and a hit was born. Also written at this session was the track that would follow “Alabama” on the Second Helping album, “I Need You.”

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Album: Second Helping
Label: Geffen
Copyright: (C) 1997 Geffen Records
Song Length: 4:43
Release Date: November 4, 1997
Original Release Date: November 4, 1997

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  • The song included a response to Neil Young's "Southern Man" when Lynyrd Skynyrd sings that they hope Neil Young will remember that a "Southern man don't need him around anyhow."
  • Ed King wrote the intro lick on Sweet Home Alabama on his Fender Stratocaster
  • You can also hear Ed King counting the song in at the beginning

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