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Lynyrd Skynyrd still rocks the classics

Jim Sullivan, Cape Cod Times, 8 August 2013

IT COULD HAPPEN at any rock show, any time, any place, anywhere. The band is revving up for its encore, and you hear a cry from the crowd: "'Free Bird!'" It's been a long-time ironic joke request, shouted mostly at hip alt-rock shows. It was briefly funny, about three decades back.

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