![]() ![]() ![]() The still touring Lynyrd Skynyrd regularly used the Confederate battle flag in their live shows for decades. And it’s easier to keep playing to that stuff, because that’s where the audience is.” He added: “Certain images, certain sounds, certain ideas were set in place. it all becomes sort of like a certain kind of Southern music.” “Lynyrd Skynyrd doesn’t really play country music but there’s an overlap between the audiences. “A lot of the sounds that were progressive in the ‘70s and rock-based became incorporated into country music, and became the sound of country music,” Erlewine said. and Charlie Daniels, a Southern rock pioneer whose sound became more country. In the 1990s, the group’s audiences began to overlap with those of Hank Williams Jr. It was this reconstituted version of Lynyrd Skynyrd that seemed to really embrace a more conservative image, Erlewine and Paul each said. Rossington was among the returning members and, as the lineup continued to change, would remain. The band reformed a decade later with Johnny Van Zant taking his older brother’s role. “There was definitely a reactionary conservatism in parts of Skynyrd, but they could not be seen strictly in terms of what you would think of as conservative politics,” Erlewine said of their first incarnation.Ī 1977 plane crash killed Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and backing vocalist Cassie Gaines and injured Rossington. But Lynyrd Skynyrd embraced the Southern rock label “to the point of making people uncomfortable,” Paul said. The Georgia-based Allman Brothers Band hated the term, Paul said, because it was too reductive. The most accurate way to describe the genre shaped by wide-ranging influences “would be rock bands who sounded distinctly Southern - they didn’t hide anything about their Southernness,” Paul said. They came to have three guitarists, whose layers produced a thick, brawny sound that could become “a locomotive for solos,” Erlewine said.īut the label “Southern rock” was nebulous at best, said Alan Paul, a music journalist who interviewed Rossington several times for Guitar World and for his upcoming book, “Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Inside Story of the Album That Defined the ’70s.” The original members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, which released its first album in 1973, had an intense musical chemistry and were harder and grittier than other groups lumped under the Southern rock banner, such as The Allman Brothers Band and The Marshall Tucker Band. ![]()
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