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Originally Posted by herr_oberst View Post
and, fun fact, the members of LS became pretty good friends with Neil Young later on, and as a matter of record, he wrote this in one of his autobiographies:

In Young's 2012 autobiography Waging Heavy Peace, he commented on his song: "My own song 'Alabama' richly deserved the shot Lynyrd Skynyrd gave me with their great record. I don't like my words when I listen to it. They are accusatory and condescending, not fully thought out, and too easy to misconstrue."
Thank you for that...the long version of 'Southern Man' is probably my favorite...and by 1977 I had lived in the South and I am pleased Neil wrote the above.

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