![]() ![]() ![]() It had been downloaded over 500,000 times! At that point the decision was made to head back to Florida, cut a proper version and put it on the record.Īs far as repaying Judy Van Zant? She owned 51% of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Publishing. Mistress Carrie shows them the download count of their performance of the song. “I, like, studied it the night before to, to give it to Judy, but they somehow got me to do it and I was terrified, but I did it and they recorded it.”įast forward six weeks or so, they’re back in Boston. Like, I can’t, because here’s the thing, I didn’t know if I would’ve remembered all the words and, and what have you.” He was a little more prepared than he thought. So Brad (Stewart – the original bass player) looked over at me and was like, do “Simple Man”. “We had a cover of something else that we kind of tried to work up and it was just a train wreck. The station was WAAF, and the DJ, Mistress Carrie, sometimes had bands cover songs for the listeners. At a radio station stop in Boston, he would sing it on the air for the first time. But he would thank her in a much bigger way soon. He said that was kind of like a “thank you” to Judy. All Lynyrd Skynyrd Albums In Chronological Order Christmas Time Again, 2000 Vicious Cycle, 2003 God & Guns, 2009 Last of a Dyin Breed, 2012. No matter how you package it, though, this is still powerful music. He told me the band worked up a version of that song to play at a club the Van Zant’s owned, called Freebird Live. Skynyrd is overrepresented by greatest-hits sets and live albums, though, and this collection is easily bested by the much deeper collections The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd and All Time Greatest Hits. I mean, but I promise you, one day I’ll pay you back.”” When Judy housed me for like a year straight, I told her, I was like, “I have no idea how I’m gonna pay you back. And so the reality is that the lineage between Skynyrd and Shinedown is very real. For people who don’t know, Jasin Todd, who was on the first two records, he was married to Melody Van Zant, which was Ronnie Van Zant’s daughter. He said that covering that song was not at all planned. ![]()
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