Because no matter where you’re from, sweet home Alabama or sweet home Florida or sweet home Arkansas, you can relate.” “It was cutting the song he wrote about the South down. “It wasn’t cutting him down,” Rossington said of Young. And so Ronnie (Van Zant) just said, ‘We need to show people how the real Alabama is,’ ” guitarist and founder member Gary Rossington told Garden & Gun in 2015. Neil Young had ‘Southern Man,’ and it was kind of cutting the South down. “When we were out in the country driving all the time, we would listen to the radio. The rollicking track begins with King counting “1-2-3” before the guitar lick that generations have come to know as a tribute to the state of Alabama. King was one of three writers of “Sweet Home Alabama,” which was released on the album “Second Helping” in April 1974, according to Rolling Stone. He left before a 1977 plane crash in Mississippi that killed three members of the group and later rejoined for a reunion tour, according to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. King was a member of the Florida band in its early days. The post did not include a cause of death or King’s age. The retired guitarist died Wednesday at his home in Nashville, according to his Facebook page. (CNN) – Ed King, who co-wrote the Lynyrd Skynyrd hit “Sweet Home Alabama,” the tune with the classic riff that became a Southern rock anthem, has died.
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