Sweet Home Alabama

1974 70s Hard Rock

Written in response to Neil Young's songs "Southern Man" and "Alabama," "Sweet Home Alabama" appeared on Lynyrd Skynyrd's second album Second Helping (1974) and reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's highest-charting single. The song's political lyrics compare Richard Nixon and Watergate with Alabama governor George Wallace and his Birmingham supporters, and it remains arguably the band's signature song alongside "Free Bird."