“Sweet Home Alabama” figured into notable pre-fame moments of Taylor Hicks’ life. At a Hoover High school talent show, he played harmonica on a cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Southern rock anthem with some ...

Lana Del Rey brought out Jelly Roll at Alabama’s Hangout Festival festival to perform Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” as the summer of unlikely onstage duets continued Friday. Just a week after ...

On an early summer’s day in 1973, while waiting for the last of his bandmates to arrive for rehearsal, Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington unfurled a speculative riff on a sunburst Les Paul.

"Sweet Home Alabama" was released in 2002, but — two decades later — star Melanie Lynskey says she's still in touch with some of the kids who appeared in the movie with her. In a poolside interview ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Tourists traveling into Alabama on interstate highways will soon be greeted by signs strengthening the state’s official connection to the Lynyrd Skynyrd song title “Sweet Home ...

Sweet Home Alabama was released in September 2002 and took its title from the Lynyrd Skynyrd song of the same name Shafiq Najib is a former writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He left PEOPLE in 2023. Reese ...