Lynyrd Skynyrd didn't pull any surprises at Saturday's Jacksonville concert, but the hometown crowd loved every minute of it.

Classic rock can get a little melodramatic. For example, the lyrics of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird” don’t warrant the tune’s over the top instrumental. The song was a hit but it missed the No. 1 spot.

Guitarist Rickey Medlocke said Lynyrd Skynyrd's record label wasn't thrilled about issuing “Free Bird.” The single originally appeared on their 1973 debut album, reaching No. 19. Since then, it's ...

Fifteen months after they last performed a live concert, Lynyrd Skynyrd returned to the stage on Friday to shake off the rust. The titans of Southern rock closed out Night One of the Pepsi Gulf Coast ...

Former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle will co-write and produce a biopic about his life with the Southern rock band. The film, tentatively titled Free Bird, also focuses on one of the music’s ...

CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio - With apologies to NASA . . . Cleveland, Lynyrd Skynyrd Retirement Base: The "Free Bird" has landed.'' A week removed from the 49 th anniversary of Ohio native Neil Armstrong's ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Johnny Van Zant and guitarist Garry Rossington recalled the struggle to perform the band's signature song “Free Bird” during their comeback tour, 10 years after the plane crash ...

Continuing this week’s surge of farewell tour announcements, Lynyrd Skynyrd will launch its own farewell tour. Thursday’s announcement of the veteran Southern rock band’s “Last of the Street Survivors ...

The group is now the prevue of Johnny Van Zant, younger brother of lead singer Ronnie Van Zant -- who was one of four Skynyrd members killed in an October 1977 plane crash that put the band away for a ...

A black and white photo of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd. The ad appeared in the December 8, 1975 issue of Billboard and can be dated from that publication. It ran to promote the single release of "Gimme ...

ALTON — When 3-year-old Rickey Medlocke began playing the banjo with his grandfather, little did he know he would be part of two popular 1970s’ bands, including Lynyrd Skynyrd, whose long list of hits ...