The enormous success of the emotional, yearlong “Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute Tour,” which went from 1987 to 1988, provided the impetus for new material from the group. Even with a drastically altered ...

Three years ago, in the midst of a tribute tour, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Gary Rossington promised that the nostalgia trip wouldn’t go on forever. “This is it,” Rossington said at the time. “We’ll never play ...

“What song does Orlando want to hear tonight?” asked Johnny Van Zant, front man for Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991. That was one of your more rhetorical questions, of course. But the crowd that filled two-thirds ...

On Friday, the classic Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd brings the “Last of the Street Survivors Farewell Tour” to Baton Rouge. Lynyrd Skynyrd’s local appearances through the years include the band’s ...

Billy Powell, 56, the Lynyrd Skynyrd keyboard player who performed on hits such as "Sweet Home Alabama" and survived the 1977 plane crash that killed three band members, died Jan. 21 at his home in ...

His old band had exploded in a fiery plane crash that killed three. The subsequent band fizzled in acrimony. Billy Powell was at a low point of his life, catching a gig with another has-been rocker, ...

When the band first started playing live in their hometown of Jacksonville, Florida in the late ’60s, they called themselves My Backyard. Then they were known as The Noble Five and The One Percent ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd keyboard player Billy Powell, who played on such hits as “Sweet Home Alabama” and survived the 1977 plane crash that killed three band members, died Wednesday. He was 56. Lynyrd Skynyrd ...