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Lynyrd Skynyrd : an oral historyEntry/Object ID
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237 pages ; 21 cm
Lynyrd Skynyrd an oral history by Lee Ballinger. Galley proof.An Avon Book.
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Letter enclosed with book is dated August 9, 1999 from Lee Ballinger to a Tony: You were supposed to get a set of proper galleys from the publisher but, as far as I can tell, you didn't. Still, it's pretty much the book for better or for worse. Yours, Lee Ballinger (his signature).
Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Cast of characters (Buker, Carlisi, Clark, Collins, Crowe, Daniels, Davis, Dowd, Dube, Elson, Gaines, Hali, Haury, Hornyak, Ivy, Johnson, King, Kooper, Krantz, Lawrence, Marsh, Medley, Medlocke, Odom, Osaki, Peden, Powell, Pyle, Redbeard, Rossington, Rudolph, Skinner, Swenson, Tsilis, Van Zant, Wilkerson) -- Sweet home Jacksonville -- Lynyrd Skynyrd -- Swamp music -- The same old Blues -- In muscle shoals, they have the swampers -- The Yankee slicker -- Pronounced leh-nerd skin-erd -- On the hunt -- Down south jukin -- Sweet home Alabama -- Second helping -- Simple man? -- Whiskey rock-a-roller -- Workin' for mca -- Whiskey rock-a-roller, part two -- The torture tour -- Gimme me back my bullets -- Four walls of raiford -- One more from the road -- Searching -- Street survivors -- Tuesday's gone -- I'm a country boy -- Roll gypsy roll -- Free bird -- Discography -- Sources.
Acknowledgements: David Marsh -- Sandy Choron -- Harry Choron -- Rick Clark -- Dave Townsend -- Cameron Crowe -- Bob Carlton -- Judy van Zant -- David Cantwell -- Jim Crooks -- JU professors -- Byron Parker, Jr. -- Erica, his daughter, and his son, Jesse, and wife Carrie -- Ronnie Van Zant.
Introduction: Lynyrd Skynyrd was built on contradictions. Although steeped in the blues, country, and gospel of their native South, Skynyrd's most immediate musical influence were the English bands that refashioned traditional southern music and gave it back to America. He toured with a Confederate flag background yet wrote songs about solidarity with the ghetto. The band was the product of the vision of 1 man, Ronnie Van Zant, who ran the band with an iron hand. Perhaps most important is the contradiction's between the band's image as pro-George Wallace Confederate rednecks and the reality that they were anti-handgun, anti-George Wallace, pro-peace, pro-environment, responsive citizens of the South. The band's redneck image was cast in stone by the massive success of "Sweet Home Alabama, mistaken by many people (who missed the chorus of "Boo! Boo! Boo!") as an endorsement of the racist Alabama governor George Wallace. Jeff Carlisi, .38 Special guitarist, said "It really was the Black music that gave birth to everything."Collection
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Lynyrd Skynyrd (Musical group)., Rock musicians -- Southern States -- Biography., Rock musicians -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- Biography., Van Zant, Lacy., Van Zant, Ronnie., Jacksonville Area Music Museum (JAMM).Publication Details
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Ballinger, LeeCall No.
ML 421 .L96 B35 1999