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Beatles
11-02-2007, 11:33 AM
IMO one of the best songs. Never understood these lyrics :

Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers
and they ve been known to pick a song or two.
Lord, they get me off so much,
they pick me up when I'm feeling blue, now how about you.

Until now.

Muscle Shoals was a recording studio in Alabama. Just got an email from a friend with this link:

http://www.realdetroitweekly.com/printer_547.shtml

Learn something everyday :smile:
david henman
11-02-2007, 02:09 PM
....thanks to mainstream/terrestrial radio (and NOT the quality of the song), that is one of many songs that i would be oh so happy to never have to hear again.

:mad:

hey, nice to see you and karen last week! we gotta get together and do a dinner one day.

-dh
Beatles
11-02-2007, 02:30 PM
....thanks to mainstream/terrestrial radio (and NOT the quality of the song), that is one of many songs that i would be oh so happy to never have to hear again.

:mad:

LOL Unquestionably overplayed

hey, nice to see you and karen last week! we gotta get together and do a dinner one day.

-dh

We had a great time and it was nice to see everyone again. We'll definitely take you up on that.
Robboman
11-02-2007, 02:39 PM
Muscle Shoals was a recording studio in Alabama. Just got an email from a friend with this link:

http://www.realdetroitweekly.com/printer_547.shtml

Learn something everyday :smile:

Yup, and The Swampers were the studio house band. For some odd reason, I knew that already. Maybe from having to sing that song about 1000 times :zzz:

I love all the Skynard from that era though, it's no wonder kids are catching onto it again now.
adamthemute
11-02-2007, 03:41 PM
Catchty tune, but I dig Free Bird more.
washburned
11-02-2007, 05:13 PM
Catchty tune, but I dig Free Bird more.

Did you know that if you try to play FreeBird on a Nash guitar it will melt down and mutate into an eight track player?:smilie_flagge17:
Tarl
11-02-2007, 09:21 PM
We do Tuesday's Gone and Call Me The Breeze........but we refuse to do SHA....good tune but way overplayed.
Mooh
11-02-2007, 09:24 PM
Sweet Home Alabama? Never heard of it. Is it one of those new rock songs?

(My brain hurts.)

Peace, Mooh.
Robert1950
11-02-2007, 10:11 PM
I think you have to be from the American South to really understand it. It's retort to Neil Young's song 'Alabama' (Have I got the title right???) criticizing all the bigotry in the south. Personally, I agree with Neil.
ronmac
11-03-2007, 07:03 AM
I think you have to be from the American South to really understand it. It's retort to Neil Young's song 'Alabama' (Have I got the title right???) criticizing all the vile bigotry in the south. Personally, I agree with Neil.

Perhaps that explains why it is always the really drunk rednecks that request this song so often....:sport-smiley-002::food-smiley-004:
Chito
11-03-2007, 08:46 AM
I thought it was in response to "Southern Man".
Mooh
11-03-2007, 11:47 AM
Okay, suppressing the memory doesn't work.

I like SHA but it's so overplayed that my eyes glaze over just thinking about it. For guitarists though, it can be a real wankfest and I have preferred to trade solos with the piano player whenever possible. It's a staple of the local open mics, and another reason for avoiding them.

Peace, Mooh.
Robert1950
11-03-2007, 07:20 PM
I thought it was in response to "Southern Man".

You're right. Premature senility. I just couldn't remember the title.
Milkman
11-04-2007, 07:05 AM
Muscle Shoals was indeed a well respected studio and the Swampers were also known as the Muscle Shoals Rythym Section.

Sweet Home is a great song and yes it has been overplayed, however it has been played poorly more often than not, and WAY too frequently without piano IMO.

I wouldn't mind hearing a band take the time to play it well.

There are some very tasty guitar and piano solos in the song.
Paul
11-04-2007, 08:04 AM
Sweet Home is a great song and yes it has been overplayed, however it has been played poorly more often than not, and WAY too frequently without piano IMO.

Tying into the fast=difficult thread from the other week, I'm of the opionion that SHA is one of the most difficult songs out there from the southern/classic rock family of tunes.

If so few bands can play it well live, then it must be a difficult song to play. I've never heard a live band play the song with the grace, elegance and style it needs and deserves. I humbly put myself on the list of musicians who have murdered the song live. SHA is now on my list of songs I won't play live again. Even if I could go back in time and sub-in with the original LS lineup, I'm sure that what I can bring to the table would just bollocks up the song.
ClintonHammond
11-04-2007, 10:18 AM
"Unquestionably overplayed"
If I ever hear it again, the original, or another lame cover, it'll be too soon
NB-SK
11-04-2007, 10:56 AM
It's certainly not one of my favorites. Let me just leave it at that. I don't want to offend anyone.
Xanadu
11-05-2007, 05:57 PM
I love this song.. Whenever I hear it, it just gets me going :-)
washburned
11-06-2007, 09:47 PM
I think you have to be from the American South to really understand it. It's retort to Neil Young's song 'Alabama' (Have I got the title right???) criticizing all the bigotry in the south. Personally, I agree with Neil.

neil wrote two "critical" south songs about that time...Alabama and Southern Man...SHA references both.