Sweet Home Alabama
"Sweet Home Alabama" is a song by Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd that first appeared in 1974 on their second album, "Second Helping".
Alabama Theatre (Myrtle Beach)
The Theatre has held concerts for about 24 years. In '95, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Billy Ray Cyrus played at the Alabama Theatre. Alabama (its namesake, since they started on the Bowery in Myrtle Beach) played there in '96 and '13. Kenny Chesney played there in 2000 (He filmed the music video for "Anything But Mine" in Myrtle). The Oak Ridge Boys played there in '03. Kenny Rogers played there for 2 nights in '07. Anne Murray from Canada was there in '08. Little Richard (from Macon) in '09, Canadian Gordon Lightfoot in '10, Aaron Tippin (from the Greenville area) in '12, Charlie Daniels Band (from Wilmington, NC) in '13, Merle Haggard in '13 (he died in '16), Three Dog Night in 14, Martina McBride in '14, comedian Bill Engvall in '14, Loretta Lynn in '15, and LeAnn Rimes in '16.