Sweet Home Alabama

artist
Lynyrd Skynyrd

album
(Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)

genre
Southern rock

decade
seventies

significance
charted at number eight

trivia
Done in response to the Neil Young song Alabama. It was rumored to have been done in response to the song Southern Man, but those were disproven

controversy
It caused controversy by mentioning the governor and Watergate. Then-governor George Wallace was a supporter of segregation.