Cause I'm as free as a bird now...
Jan. 29th, 2009 10:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
derekl_1963Lynyrd Skynyrd keyboardist Billy Powell dies.
Freebird: (the full version.)
If there's a rock and roll heaven, you know they have a hell of a band...
The South's gonna do it again...
If Heaven Ain't A Lot Like Dixie...
Southern rock - part of the soundtrack of my youth. Even at the height of the disco era, no rock station was without its daily ration of Lynrd Skynrd or Allman Brothers or their like. Of course back then, there was no MTV and few national playlists dictated by marketing exectives distant from the local markets...
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Date: 2009-01-30 12:27 am (UTC)Remember the summer of '77 - we were living in Orange Park, when the plane crashed and the music was changed forever. I remember driving down Blanding Blvd. when the funeral procession went by with Van Zant. Your Dad and I had seen them live many times when they were starting our at the Comic Book Club and then in 75 at the height of their careers. Free Bird is the song that frames the South in the 70's when country and rock and roll went to bed together and the whiskey throated music was born.