Lynyrd Skynyrd News

An Ashvegas reader writes in to tell me that he witnessed one hell of a bar fight Saturday night involving Artimus Pyle.

Deer Tick: World-weary beyond their years. Deer Tick With Jonny Corndawg and The Backwater Racket.

Itis been some time since weive been treated to good Southern Fried Rock n so we welcome, with open arms, the Kings of Leon.

To lead guitarist Gary Rossington, it wasn't fate that saved his life when he was a passenger on the plane that went down in 1977, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and two other members of Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Published: Friday, October 30, 2009 at 6:30 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 30, 2009 at 3:38 p.m. Not long ago, Ocala-based entertainer Steve Champagne and a buddy were listening to music when the Lynyrd Skynyrd classic 'Sweet Home Alabama' started playing.

Readers of news-press.com voted last week for their favorite Lynyrd Skynyrd song, and the results are hardly surprising.

Champaign Urbana's Classic Rock 105.9 WGKC is sending you to see Lynyrd Skynyrd Live in Concert on Saturday November 7th at The US Cellular Coliseum in Bloomington, IL.

The Second Fret is bringing some internationally known performers to downtown Statesville.

Readers of news-press.com voted Thursday for their favorite Lynyrd Skynyrd song, and the results are hardly surprising.

Jewelry designer and sometime actor Waris teamed up with French label A.P.C to create these Waris Tear Pins .

After each tour, after thousands and thousands of fans chanting "Free Bird," Rickey Medlocke can't wait to slip out of his leather concert clothes and get back to sweet home Fort Myers.

In this 1995 interview , Neil Young mentions that he played the Lynyrd Skynyrd song, Sweet Home Alabama , live a couple of times.

It's hard to imagine there was a time when "Free Bird" wasn't a running joke, shouted out at the most awkward moments in concert halls across the country.

Thirty-two years ago today three members of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd were killed in a chartered plane crash in Mississippi.

When three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd came to the CMT offices recently to tape an episode of Top 20 Countdown , they saw something that stopped them in their tracks: A black-and-white photograph capturing an unguarded moment between Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard .

I'm a longtime Lynyrd Skynyrd fan. Even though I grew up in Wisconsin, the music playing on my eight-track player came directly from Jacksonville's Westside.

Thirty-two years ago next Tuesday marks the anniversary of, for lack of a better phrase, the crash that killed Lynyrd Skynyrd.

SALISBURY - It is once again a time of change for the quintessential southern-rock band, Lynyrd Skynyrd.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- Lynyrd Skynyrd plays at home in northeast Florida when they rock the St.

The Flaming Lips, "Embryonic" 2.5 stars. Lynyrd Skynyrd, "God & Guns" 2 stars. Gregory Alan Isakov, "This Empty Northern Hemisphere" 3.5 stars.