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Lynyrd Skynyrd: An Interview with Rickey Medlocke

Jim Sullivan, Cape Cod Times, July 2014

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 longtime ironic joke request, shouted mostly at hip alt-rock shows. It was briefly funny, about three decades back.

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