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Lynyrd Skynyrd
Sweet Home Alabama
Album: Lyve From Steel Town
Genres: Rock
Southern Rock's all-time anthem gets a rote "lyve" run-through from a reconstituted Skynyrd. Turn it up -- or off, as the case may be.

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	"I do believe it's about that time," announces Johnny Van Zant to a Pittsburgh audience, giving the signal for the re-constituted Lynyrd Skynyrd (only three original members left) to kick into "Sweet Home Alabama." As Southern rock anthems go, this one's a stone classic, but Van Zant and the boys sound about as happy to be playing it as a Tuscaloosa bar band forced to do "that song" every hour on the hour. Even such incendiary Van Zant asides as "Whaddaya say, Pittsburgh?" fail to inject much life into the performance. Even worse is the mix; I mean, why would a band with three lead guitarists want the piano to be the loudest instrument? Still, if you're lookin' to get your Southern rocks off, this will certainly work in a pinch. After all, "Sweet Home Alabama" will live on long after these road dogs finally call it a day.

	*Dan Epstein*
	Dan Epstein is a Los Angeles-based journalist and pop-culture historian whose work has appeared in L.A. Weekly, BAM, Raygun, Guitar World and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. His first book, Twentieth Century Pop Culture, was published in 1999 by Carlton Books.