Johnny Van Zant took over as the new lead singer and primary songwriter of Lynyrd Skynyrd after the tragic plane crash that took the lives of his brother and several band members. Skynyrd has made a mark unlike any other southern rock band with important southern anthems like "Free Bird" and "Sweet Home Alabama." Six albums and millions of concert ticket sales later, Johnny Van Zant and the rest of the Lynyrd Skynyrd boys are keeping the music alive. The band’s latest release God + Guns hits stores on September 29.I had a chance to interview the charismatic lead singer Van Zant for the other site I write for, The 9513. You can read the whole interview HERE.
"I think a lot of the country artists that are coming out today listened a lot to the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ted Nugent and Aerosmith (Laughing). For example, Jason Aldean opened up for us a couple years ago, and he did a cover of an Aerosmith or a Zepplin song–I can’t remember which. But I was really surprised that he was doing that as part of his set. Of course, people like Montgomery Gentry are influenced–we’ve done a CMT Crossroads with them. We’ve been recording records in Nashville for as long as we’ve been recording records. They’ve been recorded in Nashville or Memphis or down in Muscle Shoals."
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