[familyofman]

"Skynard's Sweet Home Alabama..."

You do realize this song was written in response to Neil Young's 'Southern Man', and even mentions Neil Young in the lyrics.

[Alas Babylon!]

Yes, I'm very aware of that. Neil Young? A Southern man don't need him around, anyhow!

[shuckmaster]

>>>You do realize this song was written in response to Neil Young's 'Southern Man',<<<

Actually, it was written in response to Neil Young's very derogatory song 'Alabama' which appeared on a later album. It does reference 'Southern Man' in the lyrics.

[lentulusgracchus]

You do realize this song was written in response to Neil Young's 'Southern Man', ....

And unless I misunderstood the lyrics, "Sweet Home Alabama" seemed to disown George C. Wallace ("now, we all did what we could do") into the bargain. Pretty liberal for 1973.