Sweet Home Alabama

[Karl/Pa.]

Picked this up down the street. Great! (I guess)

The Leningrad Cowboys is a Finnish rock and roll band famous for its humorous songs and concerts featuring the Soviet Red Army Choir.

Currently, the band has eleven Cowboys and two Leningrad Ladies. The songs, all somewhat influenced by polka and progressive rock, and performed in English, have themes such as 'vodka', 'tractors', 'rockets', and 'Genghis Khan', as well as folkloric Russian songs, rock and roll ballads and covers from bands as diverse as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, all with lots of humour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lNFRLrP014

[stripperclip]

well that was pretty much different

[Niner]

That was different. Wonder if they understand the lyrics.

[DuncaninFrance]

[Niner]

Well.... just a little background:

"Sweet Home Alabama" was an answer to two controversial songs, "Southern Man" and "Alabama" by Neil Young, which were critical of social conditions in the South. "We thought Neil was shooting all the ducks in order to kill one or two," said Ronnie Van Zant at the time (Dupree 1974). Van Zant's musical response, however, was equally controversial, with references to Alabama Governor George Wallace and the Watergate scandal. The debate nonwithstanding, the song has become one of the most popular examples of Southern rock. It reached the top ten of the US charts in 1974 and was the band's second hit single

[joseyclosey]

Still prefer the Lynyrd Skynyrd version

Joe