Drive-By Truckers, Lynyrd Skynyrd on the Confederate Flag’s Meaning
By Brian Ives
Three years ago, Gary Rossington, a founding member of iconic Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, made a bold statement. The band, he said, were no longer going to use the Confederate flag in their merchandise because hate groups had “kidnapped” it ...The band eventually backpedaled a bit ... Lynyrd Skynyrd were unavailable to update their comments in 2012 regarding the Confederate flag. However two members of another band from the region, one that perhaps embodies Southern rock more than anyone over the past decade and a half, were available: the Drive-By Truckers ... “I’m from Alabama,” says Patterson Hood, “I lived in the South my entire life. I have ancestors who fought in that ill-begotten war, but it’s way, way past time to move on … That War was what, 150 years ago? It’s time to move on. It should have been a moot point years ago. The flag represents an act of war against the United States” ... Patterson says that no matter what heritage or history debate exists, the Confederate flag was always about racism ...
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that nobody has ever heard of.
and appreciate them and their music very much. 
