Sweet Home Alabama (film)
The film title and theme song lyrics are from the ""Sweet Home Alabama"" song by Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, that first appeared in 1974 on their second album, "Second Helping".
Music of Alabama
Many artists in the realms of Rock, Country, Rhythm and Blues and pop have emerged from Alabama over the past 50 years, including Wilson Pickett, Toni Tennille, Percy Sledge, Tommy Shaw of Styx, Martha Reeves of Martha and the Vandellas, the Southern Rock/Pop/R&B band Wet Willie, the Rock band Brother Cane, the Power Pop band Hotel of Birmingham, Bill McCorvey of the Country band Pirates of the Mississippi, and songwriter/producer Walt Aldridge. The Commodores and their former front man Lionel Richie both hail from Tuskegee. Richie attended Tuskegee University. Rick Hall, founder of FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals is a well-known producer of classic R&B, pop, country music from the 1960s through the 1980s. The Birmingham area has had more than its fair share of "American Idol" contestants do well, including second season winner Ruben Studdard (who played football for Alabama A&M University), fourth season runner-up Bo Bice, and fifth season winner Taylor Hicks (who attended Auburn University).