Prompted by comments on this thread, I just now listened to “Free Bird” for the first time in my life, and I wasn’t impressed. I don’t understand why it’s considered “iconic,” or why it was even a hit. Cutting it down to about three minutes would have been an improvement.
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Fiji,
Yeah, I never heard of it either, but I’m a Philistine who doesn’t know very much about music. I wish I had more time for artists, but I don’t.
Maybe try “Silver Bird” by Mark Lindsay, its about 3 minutes.
1. It’s one of the defining anthems of the distinctive “southern rock” genre.
2. It’s a sentimental connection to the original Lynyrd Skynyrd, before the 1977 plane crash that took the lives of three band members and several others.
3. There’s something epic about seeing concert videos from the 1970s when Ronnie Van Zant dedicates their performance of the song to fellow southern rock legend, the late Duane Allman.
Personally, I think “Freebird” is eclipsed by “Tuesday’s Gone” as the greatest Lynyrd Skynyrd song ever.