Hindustan Times
Take a stiff shot of the music of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Add some more grit, grime and edge. Shake it up well in an old cocktail-shaker and serve it straight up. What you’ll get is what a band called Drive-By Truckers serves up. I first came across the Truckers when I heard their two-CD epic, The Southern Rock Opera, released in 2001. A concept album that explores southern rock music, the album is themed on Lynyrd Skynyrd, the rock band that Ronnie Van Zant founded in 1965. Van Zant and two of his band members were killed in a plane crash in 1977 but not before Lynyrd Skynyrd garnered a huge following—even in India. On my infrequent visits to some Delhi bars I still hear their anthemic song, Free Bird, being played by DJs.
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Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged A Blessing and a Curse, Alabama, Decoration Day, Download Central, Drive-By Truckers, Free Bird, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Music, Patterson Hood, Ronnie Van Zant, Southern discomfort, The Dirty South, The Southern Rock Opera
