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Whiskey bottles and brand-new cars, the fast life and sudden death of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mark Ribowsky

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Whiskey bottles and brand-new cars, the fast life and sudden death of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mark Ribowsky

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-261) and index

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Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Whiskey bottles and brand-new cars

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Mark Ribowsky

Sub title

the fast life and sudden death of Lynyrd Skynyrd

Summary

Based on interviews with surviving band members,Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars shares how lead singer and front man Ronnie Van Zant guided the band's hugely successful five-year run and, in the process, created not only a new country rock idiom, but a new Confederacy in constant conflict with old Southern totems and prejudices. Placing the music and personae of Skynyrd into a broad cultural context, this book gives a new perspective to a history of stage fights, motel-room destructions, cunning business deals, and brilliant studio productions

Table Of Contents

Lords and masters -- A different light -- Need all my friends -- "They sound too much like the Allman Brothers" -- Down south jukin' -- Enter Roosevelt gook -- "Chicken-skin music in the raw" -- We all did what we could do -- You don't get nothin' -- Torture tour -- "We done things only fools'd do" -- 100 proof blues -- Soundman god -- Better get outta my way -- T-R-O-U-B-L-E -- Look what's going on inside you -- Striking fire and drawing blood -- "Plane crash!"

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Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars: The Fast Life and Sudden Death of Lynyrd Skynyrd

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