Lynyrd Skynyrd » Sweet Home Alabama

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Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama (4:38)
on the album Endangered Species

Creation and Recording: 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). More…

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classic rock, southern rock, rock, 70s, lynyrd skynyrd