The Three Great Alabama Icons
Drive-By Truckers
I grew up in North Alabama, back in the 1970's, when dinosaurs still roamed the earth
Speaking of course ofthe Three Great Alabama Icons George Wallace, Bear Bryant and Ronnie Van Zant Now Ronnie Van Zant wasn't from Alabama, he was from FloridaHe was a huge Neil Young fan But in the tradition of Merle Haggard writin' Okie from Muskogee to tell his dad's point of view about the hippies n Vietnam, Ronnie felt that the other side of the story should be told.
And Neil Young always claimed that Sweet Home Alabama was one of his favorite songs.
And legend has it that he was an honorary pall bearer at Ronnie's funeral such is the Duality of the Southern ThingAnd Bear Bryant wore a cool lookin' red checkered hat and won football games and there's few things more loved in Alabama than football and the men who know how to win at it
So when the Bear would come to town, there'd be a parade.
And me, I was one a' them pussy boys cause I hated football, so I got a guitar but a guitar was a poor substitute for a football with the girls in my high school
So my band hit the road and we didn't play no Skynyrd either I came of age rebellin' against the music in my high school parkin' lot It wasn't till years later after leavin' the South for a while that I came to appreciate and understand the whole Skynyrd thing and its misunderstood glory
I left the South and learned how different people's perceptions of the Southern Thing was from what I'd seen in my life Which leads us to George WallaceNow Wallace was for all practical purposes the Governor of Alabama from 1962 until 1986 Once, when a law prevented him from succeeding himselfhe ran his wife Lerline in his place and she won by a landslide He's most famous as the belligerent racist voice of the segregationist South Standing in the doorways of schools and waging a political war against a Federal Government that he decried as hypocritical And Wallace had started out as a lawyer and a judge with a very progressive and humanitarian track record for a man of his time.
But he lost his first bid for governor in 1958 by hedging on the race issue, against a man who spoke out against integration
Wallace ran again in '62 as a staunch segregationist and won big, and for the next decade spoke out loudly He accused Kennedy and King of being communists.
He was constantly on national news, representing the good? people of AlabamaAnd you know race was only an issue on TV in the house that I grew up in
Wallace was viewed as a man from another time and place And when I first ventured out of the
South, I was shocked at how strongly Wallace was associated with Alabama and its people Ya know racism is a worldwide problem and it's been since the beginning of recorded history and it ain't just white and black But thanks to George Wallace, it's always a little more convenient to play it with a Southern accent.
And bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd attempted to show another side of the South One that certainly exists, but few saw beyond the rebel flag And this applies not only to their critics and detractors, but also from their fans and followers.
So for a while, when Neil Young would come to town, he'd get death-threats down in Alabama Ironically, in 1971, after a particularly racially charged campaign, Wallace began backpedaling, and he opened up Alabama politics to minorities at a rate faster than most Northern states or the Federal Government.And Wallace spent the rest of his life trying to explain away his racist past, and in 1982 won his last term in office with over 90% of the black vote Such is the Duality of the Southern ThingAnd George Wallace died back in '98 and he's in Hell now, not because he's a racist His track record as a judge and his late-life quest for redemption make a good argument for his being, at worst, no worse than most white men of his generation, North or SouthBut because of his blind ambition and his hunger for votes, he turned a blind eye to the suffering of Black America.And he became a pawn in the fight against the Civil Rights causeFor
tunately for him, the Devil is also a Southerner
Drive-By Truckers are an alternative country band based in Athens, Georgia, though three out of six members (Mike Cooley, Patterson Hood, and Shonna Tucker) are originally from The Shoals region of Northern Alabama. Their music is noteworthy for its "three axe attack," or three guitars as well as bass and drums. Like many alternative country acts, the Drive-By Truckers record in analog (using 2 inch tape). However, unlike the majority of their contemporaries, the Drive-By Truckers have consistently pushed their labels to also release the band's records in a vinyl format.
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