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Lynyrd Skynyrd comes to the Minnesota State Fair

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Today's Morning Edition music segment features "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

The band is scheduled to perform tonight at the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand. Lynyrd Skynyrd is led by guitarist Gary Rossington, the band's lone surviving original member.

"Sweet Home Alabama" was written in 1973 in response to Neil Young's "Southern Man" and "Alabama," which were critical of southern attitudes.

"My own song 'Alabama' richly deserved the shot Lynyrd Skynyrd gave me with their great record," Young wrote in his 2012 biography. "I don't like my words when I listen to it. They are accusatory and condescending, not fully thought out, and too easy to misconstrue."