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 ...

“Sweet Home Alabama” is a Southern rock classic, and rightly so. Alabama people aren’t surprised to hear Lynyrd Skynyrd’s familiar anthem playing in bars, at football games, in supermarkets, in ...