Teen Reacts To Lynyrd Skynyrd - Workin' For MCA, The Ballad Of Curtis Loew & Swamp Music!!!

[@Tuesdays_Gone]

They were the best. 🥰🎶🥰🎶

[@johncheney950]

I was fortunate enough to see them twice in the 1970s. This music takes me back to my youth. I miss this band deeply

[@coolruehle]

Workin for MCA is my all time fav LS song!! Billy Powell on the keyboard is awesome.

[@NJDEVILz86]

Best opening song ever... Leon screams flag drop and some of the best players everstart at once

[@GTRxMan]

Your reaction is exactly the same as everyone who's heard Skynyrd for the first time! There's a reason why they're still popular almost 50 years later. You're going to love 'Call Me the Breeze' as it has a great guitar solo by Gary Rossington and a piano solo by Billy Powell.

[@davehind3193]

Curtis Loew may have been a fictional character but it basically the story of many great blues players back in the day that sat on street corners in the south playing hoping that they would be discovered . Many of the greatest guitar players in the world were probably never discovered because of their transient life styles.

[@hausf.kartreit1111]

Billy Powell was a Great Keyboard & Piano player. I heard that he was Classically trained from an early age. He definitely fit right in with every style of LYNYRD☠SKYNYRD song they wrote✌😎☮

[@JacobBailey]

I guess I’m learning that these guys were more progressive than I thought. I love the experimentation and creativity of this composition. Whoever is on the keys, is extremely talented!

[@andytopley314]

You HAVE to check out 'Four Walls of Raiford' demo version. Ronnie, Jeff Carlisi (38 Special) and a bottle of JD! Small hours of the morning, Ronnie confused the verses so Jeff tells him 'get your piece of paper' (thinking Ronnie wrote it down) - Ronnie never wrote his lyrics, just in his head. Powerful ballad that really hits home.

[@markwalton3706]

Great Skynyrd track ... the live version from 'One More from the Road ...' is awesome especially the great duelling guitars of Rossington and Collins.

[@angeladawson8424]

I saw them at the Lakeland civic center just a few days before the crash in October 1977 and in 2010 or 2011 at Universal Studio in Orlando, Fl

[@giodagrate5369]

Definitely react to those bonus demo cuts. Loving seeing you fall in love with this band just like I did in 1987 when was 14.

[@Doggeslife]

The live album "For/From the road" starts with this song, and so did the 1987 reunion tour.

[@monalisaganser5813]

Enjoying your reactions to Lynard Skynrd! Play your air instruments however you feel comfortable! Enjoy your channel! Tuning in from Phoenix Arizona!😊🎸🎵🐶☀️🏜️🌵☮️🇺🇸🙏

[@kendalton2115]

I really enjoy your enthusiasm, and your approach to these never-to-be forgotten timeless gems. It's great. I hope you have many years of success regarding not only this awe channel, but your future, as well. But I think you're gonna be just fine. I tip my hat to you, young sir!!😎💯% Mr. Ken

[@ramsin99]

Love that you're listening to a complete album!! After this you should listen to some of the live album, One More From the Road. Their last studio album, Street Survivors is their best!! Can't wait to see your face on That Smell and You Got That Right! Skynyrd is my favorite band of all time. Saw them 3 times before the plane crash on 10/20/1977. They were NEVER the same after that.

[@stevedahlberg8680]

Just finished reaction and how fun is that. This is music that was turning me on when it was new, in junior high and High School until the plane crash and then I still listen to it a lot along with 8 billion other things. But it is such a delight seeing you check this stuff out and get it at least to some degree for sure. Really if you were to put Curtis Loew and swamp music on a playlist that you heard frequently, I absolutely promise you these will get into your brain and you will get a lot more out of them than you got on a first pass. And they will become some of your favorite songs. Each in their own way. I love how you notice Billy Powell's work on the piano, it is so important in this band. Anyway, enjoy the reaction as always.

[@ph827]

thx for reaction!! :)

[@davidsimpson8449]

Curtis Loew, wasn't an actual person...it was Rickey Medlocke's father that would play the blues for the guys on his front porch. Many of their songs do have real life behind them, "Gimmie 3 Steps" is a perfect example. It was a bar scene, and Ronnie did meet a married woman and danced, until her man took notice and pulled a gun on Ronnie for it. Gary noted in an interview several years later, the line that Ronnie said, "You're gonna have to shoot me in my ass or elbows as I walk to the door." They got to the car and Ronnie noted that he had a good song already in his head from the experience.

[@NJDEVILz86]

Last i counted they have recorded Over 100 songs....kick ass xmas a Lbum too

[@robertjeans9446]

LIVE SKYNRD RULES PERIOD ! NOBODY TOUCHES RONNIE

[@stevedahlberg8680]

Swamp Music just started, and Silas, I find something new in this song every time, for example right now that bass is bumpin. Leon Wilkeson was a beast. But he's being really agile and thumpy here and I love this song In my memory mostly though because of all the harmonics squawks that Alan Collins is getting out of his guitar using pinch harmonics. Something Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top was famous for along with many others, but he did it and yet a different way for different purposes and it all is wonderful.. I love everything about this song and the rhythm of it it's so danceable and it's so funky for rock music, and it ties deeply into cultural situations and memories.

[@NJDEVILz86]

Pob on of honkettes best too

[@hausf.kartreit1111]

That Smell📢is a song on the Street Survivors album. After Ed King left the Band Steve Gaines came in & re-ignited the Passion✌😎☮

[@susanfisher5342]

This is my favorite LS tune I love to play my drums to. Great Southern music Bro.

[@davespargo5944]

Hey man, just stumbled across your page a little bit ago with a George Carlin video, so naturally I had to check the rest of your page. The Ballad of Curtis Lowe- I see the song put you back in the chair a couple of times, then at the end, the change in your being as the song closed out. Yep, it changed you. Welcome to the Club. You just got a new subscriber....

[@angeladawson8424]

One of my favorites of there's.

[@stevedahlberg8680]

There is a movie called air guitar Nation that I bet you would like. It's actually a documentary about the whole phenomenon air guitar and air guitar championships. A musician friend of mine from around here who was actually a really good guitar player and played in a popular band here for a long time sponsored a championship series in Kansas City for several years in a row that was extremely successful. And he won himself and he even won Nationals in New York City at one point.

[@jerseycapt]

Every Lynyrd Skynyrd songs tells a story...several of them are true. These two are prime examples.

[@CrackerAL]

They always sang the truth to us

[@jonathansmith3742]

Now that was a great three song set!

[@stanpiers247]

Shorty Medlocke was an American blues, country, and bluegrass musician and banjo player born on July 20, 1912, in Jacksonville, Florida.01 He is the grandfather of Rickey Medlocke of the Southern rock bands Blackfoot and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Despite his stage name "Medlocke," his real surname officially is spelled without an "e" on the end.0 Shorty Medlocke was connected with Blackfoot and wrote some songs for the band. He was also the father of Mickey Medlocke. Shorty Medlock & Mickey with the Fla.1 Plow Hands is one of his notable performances.

[@alanbarger7712]

I was born in Jacksonville Florida. It warms my heart to see my hometown band finally get world wide credit. If the plane crash hadn't happened. What could they have been?

[@stevedahlberg8680]

11:40 don't be misled by the fact that it wasn't an actual person with a Wikipedia entry which why would he, since basically it's paying homage to somebody that was one of the many nobody's that was really incredible at what they did and provided a lot of value if intangible value to people's lives. Like many things and many good songwriters, and especially in the case of Ronnie Van Zant, these are all cobbled together from real people in real memories. It's quite economical and important to create an ambigram in these situations and it provides so much relief and characterization.

[@jackieannsims2871]

Curtis Lowe is my favorite song !!

[@davidsimpson8449]

Good to see a younger one picking up on Skynyrd, but that's just the tip of the iceberg lol. Check out their Knebworth film footage if you want a really good idea of just the energy they put out on every show....psssssss they blew the STONES off the stage at that concert.

[@JJMcClure397]

this band blows your doors off live seen them twice in the late 80's early 90's. 92 was Texas stadium this was the line up Willie Nelson / Neil Young / John Mellencamp / Paul Simon / Steve Earle / Lynyrd Skynyrd / Joe Walsh / kentucky headhunters / Richard Marx / Highwaymen / Kinky Friedman / petra / Tracy Chapman / michelle shocked / Arc Angels / john conlee

[@williethebeerman]

the dude in the middle of the photo with the long white hair is Rickey Medlocke. This song was loosely based on his grand dad Shorty Medlocke

[@JAMESMOORE-gq4vv]

This always opened their show.

[@stevedahlberg8680]

2:50 You can't go wrong playing air piano to Billy Powell, no way man.

[@phantomrockerr]

Great stuff Silas. These guys were the Best! Also, I bought one of your shirts.

[@SilasBaileyReacts]

Thank you so much for your support I really appreciate it!🙏

[@marknadeau4779]

Please look into reacting to a Roy Clark's "Yesterday When I Was Young" a forgotten gem w/ great lyrics and a sampling of Roy's incredible picking abilities.

[@EvanWeber1234]

Killer tunes I’m sure you will love them

[@alanbarger7712]

Swamp music is the sound of a pack of hounds running a deer or a raccoon. It sounds amazing.

[@gregrambo606]

Ed King on lead guitar. Ed King just spelled Loew like that when he named the song, sort of as a goof, Even though Ronnie Van Zant wrote the song. It probably is somebody Ronnie knew when he was a kid growing up in Jacksonville.

[@anthonygreen4571]

Can't wait till you hear Tuesday Gone

[@montbob100]

still gives me goosebumps after 50 years.Get yourself a guitar son.You've got the love for it.I dare ya.Just try to make their sounds on a straight amp.

[@snakeinthegrass7443]

You should def pick the keys back up, Silas. Now that you've seen how important they are to rock n roll as well as everything else, you could turn that old dusty keyboard into a monster! Or with the musical foundation already in place, the guitar might fit you like a glove. Go for it! ✌🏼❤

[@williampenn4781]

The keyboardist was a roadie who stood in when someone blew off an audition.

[@jeffmazzoli9910]

Billy Powell on the piano

[@gregj1295]

I took an Air Guitar class in college but I didn't pass. The Professor said I played out of tune all the time.

[@rollotomassi6232]

LOL, The "guy" didn't get abused by his parents, he was disciplined for disobeying his parents.

[@stevedahlberg8680]

Tutorials for playing air guitar? Are you kidding me? That whole concept exploded about 15 years ago and I actually know one of the guys that was it important part of it. But yeah they started having these championships for air guitar at local bars and it grew into a nationwide thing and then they started doing it around the world, and so now the national championships are in northern Europe. It moves around from country to country. But I know a guy Eric Melin here locally who is already a badass guitar player but I've been to so many of those and performed and some of them😢 But at the very least, check out the documentary called Air Guitar Nation. This follows a couple kids from the United States that go to the international championships and it tells you everything you know about air guitar, at least as it has become more than just a private phenomenon.

[@stanpiers247]

Curtis Loew is not the name of an actual person from Ronnie Van Zant's life. Rather, Curtis Loew is a composite of different people, including Skynyrd lead guitarist Ricky Medlocke's grandfather, Shorty Medlocke. Contrary to the song's lyrics, Shorty was not black. In a 1997 interview on the Lyve From Steel Town album, the band was quoted as jokingly saying, "We needed to 'color' the song up."

[@stevedahlberg8680]

Seriously, some night grab Alivia and crank this after you've had a drink or two and just dance to it physically in real life. You will find yourself going nuts. It has so much incredible energy. And it's so funky when it comes right down to it.

[@Tuesdays_Gone]

Curtis Loew was loosely based on Son House, Shorty Medlocke and some others that the boys were influenced by.

[@JAMESMOORE-gq4vv]

TRAVELIN' MAN Live.

[@stanpiers247]

I have always heard Curtis Loew was Shorty Medlock ......Ricky Medlocke's father......I have no idea if that is true.

[@han36solo]

Ok on your right hand, pretend to hold a pick between your thumb and 1st finger. This will help you not look like a bassist playing with your thumb. Hope it helps.

[@joemcbride5260]

You need to watch the live videos of these songs MUCH MUCH BETTER and FREEBIRD LIVE and VIDEO

[@dougwill8850]

Loew is a Jewish version of Lowe as a last name. Pronounced Low. It doesn't pertain to the song in anyway. Ed King wrote it that way I hear.

[@retiredfirelt586]

Yea Silas, your air guitar might need a little work. 😎

[@kidpoker007]

The picture you have up isn't even really Skynyrd