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Whiskey Bottles and Brand New Cars: The Fast Life and Sudden Death of Lynyrd Skynyrd
Written by Mark Ribowsky
Narrated by Jeremy Arthur
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
This intimate story of Lynyrd Skynyrd tells how a band of lost souls and self-destructive misfits with uncertain artistic objectives clawed their way to the top of the rock 'n’ roll world. Based on interviews with surviving band members, Whiskey Bottles and Brand-New Cars shares how lead singer and front man Ronnie Van Zant guided the band’s hugely successful five-year run and, and in the process, created not only a new country rock idiom, but a new Confederacy in constant conflict with old Southern totems and prejudices. Placing the music and personae of Skynyrd into a broad cultural context, this book gives a new perspective to a history of stage fights, motel-room destructions, cunning business deals, and brilliant studio productions. It also offers a greater appreciation for a band whose legacy, in the aftermath of their last plane ride, has since descended into self-caricature.
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Reviews for Whiskey Bottles and Brand New Cars
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A very enjoyable listen! Heartbreaking what happened that October evening in 1977.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Raw and real. I couldn’t stop reading. An American tragedy told in detail from RVZ boyhood in ghetto of Jacksonville until the swamp that became the business of lynard skynard.