Oh, you’re 100% right. It’s just frustrating and sad that Ronnie Van Zant died, because I don’t think Skynyrd were really associated with that ideology before the plane crash. They were white trash from the South, sure, but they were also a bunch of hippies trying to show that there was more to the American South than the racism decried by Neil Young in “Southern Man.”
Imagine if a modern southern band came out with Saturday Night Special, That Smell, or The Ballad of Curtis Loew today. They’d be outcast as “woke” and promptly disowned.
I was about to say, Skynyrd is actually really fucking good. It’s a shame it’s permanently associated with racist trash
Well it’s kinda their fault for flying the Confederate flag. But I guess that bird you cannot change.
Oh, you’re 100% right. It’s just frustrating and sad that Ronnie Van Zant died, because I don’t think Skynyrd were really associated with that ideology before the plane crash. They were white trash from the South, sure, but they were also a bunch of hippies trying to show that there was more to the American South than the racism decried by Neil Young in “Southern Man.”
Such is the duality of The Southern Thing.
Imagine if a modern southern band came out with Saturday Night Special, That Smell, or The Ballad of Curtis Loew today. They’d be outcast as “woke” and promptly disowned.