But he also added that there were 'a lot of different interpretations. We put the 'boo, boo, boo' there saying, 'We don't like Wallace,' ' Rossington said.

'A lot of people believed in segregation and all that. Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington co-wrote 'Sweet Home Alabama,' and in the Showtime film he addressed that line.

In 1963, when he was elected to his first term, Wallace famously said, 'I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever.' 'In Birmingham, they love the governor (boo! boo! boo!) It's an integral part of our nation's history.' 'At the root of it is a very human dilemma of bigotry and stereotyping,' Kemp says. Mark Kemp, originally from Ashboro, N.C., offers one perspective he's the author of a book called Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race and New Beginnings in a New South, a memoir about his relationship with rock and roll from the region. And in the documentary, Van Zant offered this: 'Everybody thinks we're a bunch of drunken rednecks.

Back then, Lynyrd Skynyrd performed in front of a large Confederate flag - at the suggestion of its record label.

' From what I'm told you were born in Canada.'Įven as the song was positioned to dispel some stereotypes of the South, the band was embracing others. 'What are you talking about, you know?' Van Zant said. A Southern man don't need him around, anyhow

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