Sweet Home Alabama one of the greatest conservative rock songs
The song Sweet Home Alabama by Southern rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd (pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd) is one of the most popular and controversial rock songs in history. The song first appeared on the bands second album, Second Helping in 1974. Sweet Home Alabama was the bands first hit single, reaching the top ten of the US charts in 1974.
Lynyrd Skynyrds hit song makes references to the songs Southern Man and Alabama by Neil Young, defending Youngs statements in those songs lyrics regarding the Souths racism in their historical treatment of black people. Despite popular belief, there was no rivalry or feud between the artist– more so the opposite, in mutual respect for each other.
In addition to the songs defense of the south, the song contains some controversial political references, mainly a verse in the song that possibly references segregationist George Wallace. Whether or not the true intent of the verse by the songs writers was to support racism has been debated on both sides of the argument. The National Review ranked the song number four on its list of 50 greatest conservative...