Heard an interesting story about LS a while back. They were down in Muscle Shoals recording their first album, and went out for a break. When they came back one of their roadies was sitting at the piano playing a beautiful piece of music he had just made up. Nobody in the band even knew he could play, and he didn’t want to tell them he was classically trained because he thought they might make fun of him. They turned on the recorder and the piece ended up being the intro to Freebird, and they had a keyboard player.
If you can stream Netflix, I highly recommend watching the documentary “Muscle Shoals.” They cover that story and many others (although I thought he was doing an ad-lib to “Call Me the Breeze,” but I could be mistaken on that). That documentary is fascinating.
Was that Billy Powell?