Talk About the 'IT' Factor! Darren Hincks is A Country Rocker to Die For!

Now, Darren Hincks has been compared to Gordon Lightfoot, Merle Haggard, with a bit of Keith Urban`s style. I can see where this particular reviewer was coming from although, for me, when I listened to an extraordinary song titled, Sadie After Midnight , I could almost feel that spark of Bob Seger and a bit of The Eagles in there, when they took country rock to new heights with their Desperado work.

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Brian Wilson is a man of few words but a veritable fountain of music
Brian Wilson is a man of few words but a veritable fountain of music

He was hardly the first pop songwriter to pen a sad tune, but he was perhaps the first to devote as much time to the music surrounding his more forlorn works as he did to the lyrics. Such duality between surf-pop celebration and summery melancholy



Talk About the 'IT' Factor! Darren Hincks is A Country Rocker to Die For!
Talk About the 'IT' Factor! Darren Hincks is A Country Rocker to Die For!

These artists have that `spark` - some even have the lyrics that speak to you - while others make your imagination run wild with their artistry and talent. But there are few - very few - who you hear about, where you click a song on their playlist and



Nothing but the truth
Nothing but the truth

Photo: Reuters Randy Newman's lyrics can come across as nasty but, as TIM FREEDMAN writes, that's not the composer's nature. When I'm asked about my songwriting influences I say, ''Randy Newman''. Then I wait for the awkward silence. ''Short People?



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“Something 'bout lighting up a Marlboro red / And that nicotine rushing to my head / And the taste of Southern Comfort on my lips / Tells me I ain't ready to quit,” they wrote in the song's opening lines. “Then we decided to talk about a girl,



Lady Sinatra Set to Bring Wild Stage Antics to the SSMF

In the midst of putting the finishing touches on their upcoming album, the members of Lady Sinatra has been playing gigs around Southern California, with a recent stop in Vegas. The band is set to perform at the Sunset Strip Music Festival on Aug.




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A southern man don’t need him around anyhow”

Growing up in the American South in the 1970’s as a Neil Young fan wasn’t exactly easy. It seems as if all of our life that whenever the subject of musical tastes came up and we revealed our appreciation of Young’s music, almost invariably it was met with those lines above from Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” .

You see, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama” is more than just an anthem for many—it serves as a statement for a way of life that is intensely protected such that when threatened—it can produce some very uncomfortable results.

Background of “Sweet Home Alabama”

 

 

Thanks to Neil Young, Lynyrd Skynyrd was inspired to write the song “Sweet Home Alabama”.

Without Young’s songs that were so critical of the South’s segregationist and racist attitudes for inspiration, it is doubtful that the band would have produced a song with such a long lasting duration that continues to sell well 30 years after its release.

But the ultimate irony of “Sweet Home Alabama” is that for so many, the song’s implied put down of Neil Young was NOT meant as criticism but as support of Young’s anti-racism. Thus, for those who think it’s so clever to put down Neil Young using the phrase “Hope Neil Young will remember, a southern man don’t need him around anyhow” little do they realize that they have the meaning backwards. Every day, someone blogs or tweets the “Neil Young putdown” without comprehending that they’ve actually praised him. Similarly, with the State of Alabama using the phrase “Sweet Home Alabama” as an official slogan on license plates, one truly has to wonder what they were thinking the song was about.

Somewhere, Ronnie is still having a good laugh at Alabama officials and Neil Young bashers. Such is the duality of the southern thing.

The history of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s 1974 song “Sweet Home Alabama” has a long and tortured history. The enormously popular song has an extraordinarily complex backstory involving a wide swath of groups which have laid claim to the song’s message and symbols. As this article demonstrates, the complicated saga of “Sweet Home Alabama” is anything but sweet.

Rarely has such a widely popular hit song been so vastly misunderstood by so many for so long.


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