Then usually when the fast part comes on, it’s just the guitar. Then I’m in her studio, and Dolly said, “Let me play you my vocal.” I sat down beside her at the console, and when she came in on the first verse, tears just flowed out of my eyes. ![]() His first reaction was, “I’d love to help you out on the album, but I’m not in good health.” I said, “Gary, Dolly is singing ‘Free Bird.’” He said, “I feel a lot better now.” I’m so glad he was able to do it. I reached out to Gary Rossington about his iconic slide part on that song. But “Free Bird” is the big fish, and if Dolly Parton wants the big fish, she gets the big fish. Of course there’s “Sweet Home” and lots of others. We’ve got all these great people singing songs to honor Ronnie, his music, and his band. How did you decide who was going to sing what on this album? ![]() For the tribute album, the Artimus Pyle Band plays on each song, and Pyle recruited a number of special guests, including Sammy Hagar on “Simple Man” and Warren Haynes on “Saturday Night Special,” the first song Pyle recorded as a Skynyrd member in 1975. The past year has been tough for Pyle and Skynyrd fans-in 2023, Gary Rossington, the last living founding member, died at age 71, but not before Pyle tapped him to record his haunting “Free Bird” slide guitar part one last time. Pyle joined around 1975, survived the 1977 plane crash that killed lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant and other members of the band and crew, and later played with the reformed band from 1987 to 1991. The original band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1964. (Time will tell if fans will now start shouting “Free Bird!” at Dolly concerts.) “Dolly Parton was the first one to record, and it had to be ‘Free Bird,’ the most iconic song that Skynyrd has,” says the former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer from his farm near Morganton, North Carolina. ![]() When Artimus Pyle was sorting out which musicians would cover which songs for the new thirteen-track Anthems: Honoring the Music of Lynyrd Skynyrd, one pairing was clear from the beginning.
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