“ I hope Neil Young will remember, a Southern man don’t need him around, anyhow.” This is in response to Neil Young’s song, “ Southern Man,” which bashes the South as being racist.Live “Sweet Home Alabama” Performance (1974) More About the Lyrics of Sweet Home Alabama They pick me up when I’m feeling blue, now how bout you?” – Sweet Home, AlabamaĬher even put The Swampers on the cover of her 1969 album, “3614 Jackson Highway,” which is also the address of their recording studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama! Look, it’s The Swampers!… and Sonny! In fact, they appeared on over 500 recordings, including 75 gold and platinum hits, and developed what people began calling, “The Muscle Shoals Sound.”ĭue to their funky, soulful, Southern “swamp” sound, they got the nickname, “ The Swampers.” This nickname stuck for good after Lynyrd Skynyrd, (a band they recorded with) gave them a shout-out in their 1974 hit, “ Sweet Home Alabama.” You’ve definitely heard them, as they are featured in songs like Aretha Franklin‘s “Respect,” and Percy Sledge’s, “When a Man Loves a Woman.” They also recorded albums with bands like: The Rolling Stones, Cat Stevens, Jimmy Buffett, Paul Simon, Bob Seger, and Etta James. So, Who Are the Muscle Shoals Swampers?Īnyway, “ The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section“ were a group of studio musicians based out of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Yes, Chairman Meow enjoys a good tummy rub, but remember, he will burn your cities to the ground! In fact, Chairman Meow is just a furry, benevolent kitteh who dreams of world-domination, and jails anyone who dissents with his radical, populist ideology. You may even accuse Chairman Meow of being an arrogant Narcissist, but that is untrue. Perhaps those shameful statistics are just fake news. I must warn you that the explanation involves: the mighty Tennessee River, mollusks, a group of scruffy white guys, and Aretha Franklin.

So, what do the lyrics, “Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers” mean? Well, lucky for you, there is no need to be ignorant anymore.Ĭhairman Meow is an omniscient, all-knowing kitteh, (To prove that fact, I haz just used the vocabulary word, “omniscient”) and now he will fumigate his wisdom upon you. You probably just hummed that part of the song, or quickly took a bite of a sandwich so that your friends wouldn’t realize that you didn’t know the lyrics. Well, Gary, like Chairman Meow, you may have listened to Sweet Home Alabama wondering what the hell they are singing about when they mention “Muscle Shoals,” and “The Swampers.” They pick me up when I’m feeling blue, now how bout you?” – Sweet Home Alabama Something about muscle shoals and the swampers? Please enlighten me.” – Gary, Pyongyang, N.K.Īnd they’ve been known to pick a song or two, (yes they do) “I can’t understand the lyrics of Sweet Home Alabama.

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