Reply #83: Exactly, thank you! [View All]

And Skynyrd recorded at Muscle Shoals. Incidentally, the backup singer on that song is Merry Clayton, who also sang those beautiful chilling lines on the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter."

Lots of people look back on Muscle Shoals as one of the few places in the South in the 60s and 70s that black and white musicians could always work together. Lots of people crossed the expected color lines to play on soul and country and rock records out of there.

And the song is, as someone said above, knocking on Neil Young because Young was a CANADIAN who lived in CALIFORNIA making sweeping generalizations about the South. Most Southerners don't like that. It's like I can make snide remarks about my family--but you can't!