![]() ![]() ![]() He was all about the working-class man, the everyday guy in the street. Rossington: “Ronnie’s lyrics could be very profound. And if the band lost the groove the next day, the song would be lost. I asked him once how he remembered the lyrics and he told me he just put the syllables together that fit into the groove of the music. King was similarly astonished: “It was always in his head. Then he’d memorise it I never saw him write anything down.” “He had this ability to immediately write lyrics to each idea of every song. “Ronnie was one of the most gifted lyricists I ever knew,” keyboard player Billy Powell told Classic Rock in one of his very last interviews. Once Van Zant had added the lyrics, Skynyrd had a ready-made Confederate classic. Kooper says he’s grown to like the solos since.” Though they were overdubs, I’d recorded them both on the first take anyway with no mistakes. But the guys in the band, being from the south and believing in superstition and dreams, told Kooper the solos needed to stay as I’d played them. “Four days later, in the studio,” King continues, “Al told me he couldn’t use the solos because I had played them in the wrong key. Producer Al Kooper had his reservations, though. At rehearsal the next day I just plugged the solos into the spots where we had rehearsed them and they fit perfectly.” I immediately woke up, got the guitar and started playing what I’d seen in the dream. The night after we wrote Sweet Home Alabama I had a dream in which I played both the short and long solos. King says the song took just half-an-hour to write, but the solos had an altogether more mystic origin: “I used to sleep with my guitar next to the bed. But Gary’s part was the catalyst that started the ball rolling.” “I put my guitar part on top of his as a counterpoint. “Gary was playing a pattern that you can hear behind the verses,” King says. Ed King had become intrigued by a guitar rhythm that Rossington had been tinkering with in the studio. What really propels Sweet Home Alabama is its burning guitar riff. We didn’t know that song would be so big, or turn into such a big deal with Neil Young fans.” Those lines about Southern Man were almost like a play on words. “Ronnie used to wear Neil Young T-shirts all the time. "Are they still together? Are they divorced? Do they want to be back together? I mean, there's so many different ideas that I think, you know, we all know life is long and complex, and they had an interesting relationship to begin with, the two characters," Lucas explained.Gary Rossington, the only surviving original member in the current Skynyrd line-up, is keen to play down any talk of a Neil Young stand-off. When asked about a follow-up movie in 2018, Lucas told " The Talk" that he "would do it in a second," doubling down on his statement in 2021 by saying, "Reese, come on, let's go do it," during SiriusXM's Pop Culture Spotlight. During a Facebook Live back in 2016, she said she "would happily make 'Sweet Home Alabama 2,'" echoing the sentiments of her costar, Josh Lucas, who played her onscreen husband, Jake Perry. While Witherspoon kept it lighthearted on the show, this actually isn't the first time she's brought up a "Sweet Home Alabama" sequel. Do you guys want me to do that?" Witherspoon asked the audience, receiving plenty of enthusiastic cheers in response. "Would you be in it? We're just trying to manifest some things," cohost Jenna Bush Hager quickly followed up. ![]() 4 appearance on " Today With Hoda & Jenna" after host Hoda Kotb inquired about a potential reboot. I think that would be a great idea," Witherspoon said during her Oct. When asked whether she would ever consider bringing back her character Melanie Smooter for a "Sweet Home Alabama" sequel, she said she's totally game. Reese Witherspoon is an actor for the people, and she's ready to give the fans what they want. ![]()
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