In 1970, Neil Young released his classic album, After the Goldrush. One of its standout tracks was Southern Man.
The following year, Young recorded the follow up, Harvest. This featured the song Alabama. The South more generally, and Alabama in particular was in his sights.
In 1973, Lynyrd Skynyrd recorded their classic song in reply, Sweet Home Alabama.
Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don’t need him around anyhow
Over the years, it was often assumed that the band hated Young, or even that they were the voice of the white racist south. Neither ‘fact’ was true.
Skynyrd’s Ronnie Van Zant would later claim that:
We wrote Alabama as a joke…We didn’t even think about it — the words just came out that way. We just laughed like hell, and said ‘Ain’t that funny’… We love Neil Young, we love his…
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