"Sweet Home Alabama" was the first song King recorded on guitar after being moved from bass. "Well, that's our 'Ramblin' Man,' " lead singer Ronnie Van Zant said after they finished the song.

Alabama Life & Culture Watch actress Cara Delevingne play ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ on guitar behind her head on Fallon Published: Sep. 04, 2019, 8:17 a.m.

As Fallon produced an electric guitar from behind his desk, the 27-year-old was very eager to demonstrate her unusual skill.

Ed King was from California. Yet the first words we hear before the infectious riff on “Sweet Home Alabama” — “One, two three!” — belong to the Glendale-born King, who co-wrote the ...

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Ed King, a former guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd who helped give the band its distinctive three-guitar sound and co-wrote hits including “Sweet Home Alabama,” died Aug. 22 at his home in Nashville.

More than 40 years after its release, Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama is still one of the most recognized rock anthems celebrating the deep South. It's also a song with a complicated legacy.

A collection of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Ed King’s guitars are available for purchase at Carter Vintage Guitars in Nashville, including the guitar that King wrote “Sweet Home Alabama ...

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Ed King, the one-time Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist and co-writer of the Southern rock anthem “Sweet Home Alabama,” died at his Nashville home. He was 68.

The rocker played guitar for Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1972 to 1975 and from 1987 to 1996. He co-wrote one of the band’s classic songs “Sweet Home Alabama.” ...

(CNN) – Ed King, who co-wrote the Lynyrd Skynyrd hit “Sweet Home Alabama,” the tune with the classic riff that became a Southern rock anthem, has died. The retired guitarist died … ...

Longtime Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Ed King, who helped pen one of Southern rock's quintessential anthems, died Wednesday at his Nashville home, according to his Facebook page. King, 68, played ...