Van Zant grew up listening to Young and regularly rocked a "Tonight's the Night" t-shirt —most notably, on the cover of the band's album Street Survivors. According to Rolling Stone , he was even rumored to have been buried in it. And for what it's worth, Young came to regret the song that started it all. They are accusatory and condescending, not fully thought out, too easy to misconstrue.
Not long after three of the members of Lynyrd Skynyrd tragically died in a plane crash in , Young performed a medley of "Alabama" and "Sweet Home Alabama" as a tribute. According to Rolling Stone , he's never played "Alabama" again since. Everyone was real nice. When we were out in the country driving all the time, we would listen to the radio. Neil Young had 'Southern Man,' and it was kind of cutting the South down. And so Ronnie just said, 'We need to show people how the real Alabama is.
We still love him today. It wasn't cutting him down, it was cutting the song he wrote about the South down. Ronnie painted a picture everyone liked. Because no matter where you're from, sweet home Alabama or sweet home Florida or sweet home Arkansas, you can relate.
Country Life. It might be heard, instead, as Van Zant arguing that he wasn't judging all individual northerners to be bad people because their president had committed bad acts; they shouldn't judge him for the things George Wallace did either. Like any work of art, "Sweet Home Alabama" means what its listeners think it means.
It's fascinating that both Neil Young and George Wallace reportedly loved the song. Ronnie Van Zant and the band worked the ambiguity to great effect; they performed beneath the stars and bars but also called the eruption of Confederate paraphernalia among their fans "embarrassing.
They told Neil Young, in so many words, that "a Southern Man don't need him around," but continued to idolize the man and his music; Ronnie Van Zant often wore a Neil Young t-shirt in concert, and was hoping to collaborate with him on a new record before those plans were destroyed by the plane wreck that killed Van Zant and two of his bandmates in That tragic accident made it impossible for Ronnie Van Zant to further clarify what "Sweet Home Alabama" meant to him.
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