Lynard Skynard talks about Sweet Home Alabama, but I don't know if that states has anything worth mentioning?
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Surely some good important things came from Alabama, what are they?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]In order:
-Home
-My kin
-Blue skies
-The Swampers
Jokes aside, the main thing in the song is that Alabama is home. Sticky sweet watermelon juice dripping down your chin in the humid summer heat, the blues of the Shoals area, the kudzu creeping along the roadside - these things may mean nothing to you, but they scream home to someone from Alabama.
It's worth noting that the song is a little bit tongue in cheek, according to Ronnie Van Zant. They put in audible boos for desegregation opponent Gov. George Wallace. Though the cowriter Ed King also contradicted that interpretation in 2009.
That said, it seems to be a bit of an ironic song.
But for actual important things from Alabama, Marshall Space Flight Center is a major NASA research center in Huntsville. MSFC lead design and assembly for the International Space Station. I believe Huntsville is currently the fastest growing city in the US, and it's a major city for hospital workers and automotive manufacturing as well.
The Muscle Shoals area has always been known for its music, as well, whether originating from or just recorded there. If you consider that important, which I do. Just look into anything recorded in that area. You'll be surprised.
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Surely some good important things came from Alabama, what are they?
Alabama is 70% forest, beautiful to travel the back highways. Judging by the forestry activity I see, they must supply a huge chunk of lumber for the region.
Many, if not most, of the small towns are surprisingly nice, but the wealth gap is on full display. Not a fan of the big cities. Mobile and Birmingham are gross all around.
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Alabama is 70% forest, beautiful to travel the back highways. Judging by the forestry activity I see, they must supply a huge chunk of lumber for the region.
Many, if not most, of the small towns are surprisingly nice, but the wealth gap is on full display. Not a fan of the big cities. Mobile and Birmingham are gross all around.
That’s a good thing in Alabama. What’s a good thing that came out of the state?
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In order:
-Home
-My kin
-Blue skies
-The Swampers
Jokes aside, the main thing in the song is that Alabama is home. Sticky sweet watermelon juice dripping down your chin in the humid summer heat, the blues of the Shoals area, the kudzu creeping along the roadside - these things may mean nothing to you, but they scream home to someone from Alabama.
It's worth noting that the song is a little bit tongue in cheek, according to Ronnie Van Zant. They put in audible boos for desegregation opponent Gov. George Wallace. Though the cowriter Ed King also contradicted that interpretation in 2009.
That said, it seems to be a bit of an ironic song.
But for actual important things from Alabama, Marshall Space Flight Center is a major NASA research center in Huntsville. MSFC lead design and assembly for the International Space Station. I believe Huntsville is currently the fastest growing city in the US, and it's a major city for hospital workers and automotive manufacturing as well.
The Muscle Shoals area has always been known for its music, as well, whether originating from or just recorded there. If you consider that important, which I do. Just look into anything recorded in that area. You'll be surprised.
The song isn’t my interest. I’d like to know what’s come out of the state.
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Super Soakers were invented there.
Hell yeah.
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southern rock, the civil rights movement, and alabama white bbq sauce are the first things i think of.
White bbq sauce and being the focal point of racism seems apropos
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That’s a good thing in Alabama. What’s a good thing that came out of the state?
black betty?
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The song isn’t my interest. I’d like to know what’s come out of the state.
Then keep reading my comment
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Surely some good important things came from Alabama, what are they?
A sentence does not become a question just because you put a question mark at the end of it.
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White bbq sauce and being the focal point of racism seems apropos
and it's even white from mayonnaise.
