Our hero moved to the city, then a couple of more cities. He listened to Lynyrd Skynyrd, Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Who, ZZ Top, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Thin Lizzy, Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, The Sweet, Ted Nugent, Queen, Steely Dan, Todd Rundgren, CCR, The Band, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. (Home was a dry county, but have no fear the Tennessee state line is just fifteen minutes away if you haul ass.) Standing in line with his daddy at the Shoals Theatre to see Walking Tall, cutting class to go to the state line with Bobby. He remembers the Watergate hearings interrupting his mama's soaps. There's this legend (myth?) (truth?) about Lynyrd Skynyrd that claimed that Ronnie Van Zant was killed by a strike on the head from the on-board VCR mounted in the back of the plane, directly behind his seat.īy the early 80's, Skynyrd's crowd was being run out of town, There was no place for big, masculine looking, hairy men with beards and guts and sweat and spit. Disco has driven a fork into rock's heart and within a year, video will dissect every little tissue until it is as meaningless as the rest of the fucking world. The seventies last rites are being read by the very same assholes who killed them. (What better way to measure a band's worth to an eighteen-year-old.) The highway's calling, but it sure ain't as romantic as it once seemed.
All their equipment stacked atop their Anvil cases. At night he dreams he's fronting his ultimate rock and roll band. His band was over the night that Bobby died. It's the summer after high school graduation and our hero hasn't played his guitar in two months. This album put us on the map and while it's far from my favorite of our albums, it changed my life forever (long before it was even finished) and since I lived to tell the tale, I'm proud of the tale I told. Lost Highway didn't bother to reproduce that when they did the reissues last summer, but it's still way better on vinyl. If you can find one from the original issue, it had a great 24 (or so) paged "libretto" which I take to be italian for "booklet telling about it". The album was set in the 70's, recorded like it was the 70's and.
LYRICS COMMENTARY CREDITS This one shouldn't have ever been released in any other format than vinyl.
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