![]() They had never been here not on tour, not as tourists, not ever. Jackson became home sweet home for Rossington beginning in the early 1980s when he and his wife, Dale Krantz-Rossington, moved to the valley. Gary Rossington performs with Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Apollo Theatre in Glasgow Scotland on Feb. It’s still a thrill to be able to make people feel like that after all these years.” ![]() They sing the words, they cry, they jump up and down. ![]() “I watch the faces now of the people in the first few rows. “It blows our mind every time we play and people know the songs no matter where you go,” Rossington said just before a reunion tour brought him to Jackson years ago. In an exclusive interview from his home in Jackson before his passing, Rossington recalled the glory years and a settling down time where he came to love Wyoming, his adopted home. And the riff in “Gimme Three Steps?” Yup, Rossington. That’s Rossington’s Les Paul barking out the “Tuesday’s Gone” solo. That’s him on the unforgettable slide guitar part in “Free Bird” (he says he used a Zippo lighter). The legendary guitarist who died earlier this year traded Jacksonville for Jackson, Wyoming, more than three decades ago, but will forever be linked to the seminal Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd.īefore his death March 5, 2023, he was the last surviving member of the group and author of some of the most influential guitar licks to ever scratch their way underneath a stylus at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute. Can any song possibly be bigger than “Sweet Home Alabama?” From the opening strains of the instantly recognizable riff (it’s a simple D-C-G progression with chicken-pickin’ hammer-ons and pull-offs) to the sing-along chorus, the legendary song is the unofficial anthem of the Deep South and a must-have arrow in any cover band’s quiver.Īnd Gary Rossington never tired of playing it.
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