Can u imagine an Ariana Grande or a 21 Pilots even trying to do something like this? I mean, what life experience can they possibly draw from? An encounter on tik tok?
The thing that amazes me about Ronnie was that when he composed lyrics to their songs, he never wrote any of them down on paper. He said "...if it wasn't worth remembering, it wasn't going in his songs"
I watched a documentary on LS and the relationship between Mr. King and the rest of the band was pretty interesting in the beginning. Cool cat tho, great guitarist. It's his voice you hear counting in the beginning of Sweet Home Alabama.
It is actually glass bottles we'd turn in to gas stations for 10 cents each. Not cans. Love you guys. When I was a kid, I would gather them for grandmother and get her a Diet Coke and a Reeses Cup.
They were 0.02 cents when I was really young then went up to a nickel. Hot damn, we got a raise! But THEN they went up to TEN CENTS! We was rollin' in the dough! And if you found one of the big bottles, they were worth 0.25 cents! You were rich, plain and simple.
@@bill8384You sound like you could be around the same age as me. I lived out in the Country. I would walk up and down the roads looking for pop bottles. That was back in the late sixties early seventies. They were two cents a bottle. Then I remember when they went up to five cents. I am 66 years old. I hated those days but I still miss those days. I lived about three miles from town.But when you would walk three miles it seemed and felt like ten miles. 6:48 !
The even more important point of this was Lynyrd Skynyrd was a SOUTHERN ROCK band, representing the south, in the late 60's and early 70's. These are the people who are portrayed as racist folks, particularly by modern culture (SNL comes to mind). But, in truth, southerners aren't that at all, and this song is a testament to it! There is huge respect being communicated here!
How we treat other people says nothing about them and everything about us. In order to be a good person, we just need to be a good person. It's that simple. Appreciate - Understand - Contribute
The deposit on soda bottles was 3 cents, 5 cents for quart bottles. Bottlers collected returned bottles from the stores and reused them. The Kids would collect them and usually buy penny candy or a candy bar and soda if you could collect enough bottles. He "woke the mornin' before the rooster crowed" to be the early bird that got the worm.
I am a 62 year old white man in Alabama and even before I first heard this song in the 70's my dream was to sit on the porch with an old experienced black man who really knows the roots of blues and feels the music ( Belton Sutherland) . This song really hits home with me and has always been my favorite of Skynyrd. I have the vinyl album btw. Love your channel ❤🇺🇸🐓
This a quasi-true story. Names and circumstances were changed to fit the song. Y'all hit the nail on the head, an old blues player affected some of the kids who would go on to play in one of the greatest rock bands ever.
I've got a DVD somewhere, maybe it's on youtube also, w/ Skynyrd playing this album & their 1st album, all the way thru, live on stage. Every Skynyrd fan should see it at least once...
The ultimate love song. This has always been a favorite of mine. There's a similar song from Kenny Rogers & The First Edition called Rueben James. Thank you so much for covering this song, I've been waiting for you to cover this!
possibly my favorite Skynyrd song. A little story. . . For about 15 years I lived in Jacksonville Beach. In 1999 my best friend died. We (myself and 3 other friends) took his ashes to the beach and poured them in. We played Freebird (his favorite song) as the incoming waves washed him away. Just about the time the song ended (It's a 10 minute song) the last of the ashes were gone.
Hands down, the best Skynyrd tune. I used to work overnights for a classic rock station in a decent market, and if LS came up on the playlist, I'd always swap it out for this one every time.
@@miconis123 I was going to share the link with you, but the last several times I tried to do something like that RU-vid wouldn't allow it. I don't know if they stopped people from doing that now or what.
I thought, they should listen to Gimme Three Steps. So I searched and you've already done it. So I went to check that out. First comment: Listen to Ballad of Curtis Loew. The circle is complete.
COULDN'T CLICK on this one FAST ENOUGH!!! YA'LL are gonna LOVE THIS ONE!!! Oh: how I MISS LYNYRD SKYNYRD!!! GREAT to see ya'll reacting to this one!! HUGS!
Curtis Low is based on Shorty Medlocke. A white man whose son Ricky was a part of Lynyrd Skynyrd at different times throughout their existence. Ricky was also lead singer for Blackfoot. The harmonica solo at the beginning of Blackfoot’s version of Train, Train was performed by Shorty.
Actually, Curtis Loew is a composite of different people. Most of those people actually being black. Shorty Medlocke was the only white guy among the people who inspired this song.
I'm so happy you all finally got to this. It's one of my favorite Lynyrd Skynyrd songs, but honestly I like every song on every album. But this is such a classic and I never get tired of hearing it, I always hear new things in it. An Amber you are right, it was bottles and not cans, but the bigger difference is that, although the bottles would get reused after being washed out, it was different than recycling. There was a 5 or 10 cent deposit on glass bottles and if you returned them to the store, then they would give you that money back.
That song always brings a tear to my eye. Curtis, if you can hear us up there, you are finally respected as you so richly deserved back when fools had the chance to love you.
Lynyrd Skynyrd has so many great songs I can't pick a favorite but The Ballard of Curtis Loew is very near the top. I remember when Skynyrd first starting gaining popularity in the early 70's when I was still in high school I would buy every album as fast as they would come out and listen to them over and over. I still have all those albums to this day and I still get them out and listen to them with all the scratches and pops and lose myself in memories.
I had a Curtis Loew in my young days as a musician too. His name was Walter and he was the original guitarist for Percy Sledge. Lived next door to a friend of mine and we used to sit on the porch trading songs all day long. Every time I hear this song I think of Walt.
I once heard that in their prime, they played a small town venue (I think some place in Oregon), but they billed themselves as The Curtis Loew Band....it was still a sold out crowd, because the locals knew who it was.
This is such a good song, another take on it is how much an older person, coach, teacher can offer a younger person without asking for anything in return and how that could possibly leave a huge impression on that child for a long time. As a coach of younger kids its a nice reminder when they get older, have some success and remember/appreciate some of the lessons you tried to impart on them when they were first starting out.
This song brought so manu tears to my eyes. Joy (the boy stomping his feet on time) hope (even if somebody is a wreck he’s still a human being) and sadness (when nobody went to his funeral) 10/10
Not all of the Southern rockers of the time would admit it, but the Blues was an integral part of their music......this is a great example of what L.S., the Allman Bros. and many more bands could do with a 'traditional' Blues number......soooo goood
This was my first introduction to Lynyrd Skynrd as a teenager . Not a bad introduction . Love the album and loved LS ever since . Have a good weekend all . ❤❤❤
Before even listening, IT'S ABOUT TIME. Skynyrd has SO many top shelf songs, this one is right there with them. Along with Tuesday's Gone, Call Me the Breeze, as well as all the radio staples for DECADES!!!!
He spent a lifetime playing the black man's blue's and on the day he lost his life that's all he had to lose. Not many get to spend it doing what you love and you can't take anything with you only what you leave behind. Curtis left a lasting impression on that young man's life as this song has on me and now the two of you.🎸🎶
I remember playing this song for my Mom when she didn't think much of rock music or blues music. She was blown away by it and stopped criticizing my music.
