"Saturday Night Special" is another songwriting triumph describing the perils of short-term thinking.
I have long said that it took more bravery for Skynyrd to have written that song, than all the Sixties protest anthems or punk rock shouts so beloved of critics.
I agree, though they did give themselves a slight out. Most of their audience would never concede to holstering a Saturday Night Special. Glock, Remington, etc, absolutely, but Saturday Night Specials in that environ was looked upon as a "dark skin" or dark skin adjacent market.
They would be in the "adjacent" market, their behavior, both of them, isn't the sort of honour southern knights would pretend to uphold. Pretense being another key word. A "man" being cheated on would use a gun on the front lawn, though preferably a shotgun. It's like the old joke about the best place to find empty beer cans is behind the couch of a Southern Baptist.
The “ Needle and The Spoon”? Yes, it is enshrined in our culture:
(1) https://youtu.be/UjVpjmU7wis
(2) https://youtu.be/Tdo_eB_iFFI
"Saturday Night Special" is another songwriting triumph describing the perils of short-term thinking.
I have long said that it took more bravery for Skynyrd to have written that song, than all the Sixties protest anthems or punk rock shouts so beloved of critics.
I agree, though they did give themselves a slight out. Most of their audience would never concede to holstering a Saturday Night Special. Glock, Remington, etc, absolutely, but Saturday Night Specials in that environ was looked upon as a "dark skin" or dark skin adjacent market.
You sure? The characters in the song sure sound like good old boys to me.
They would be in the "adjacent" market, their behavior, both of them, isn't the sort of honour southern knights would pretend to uphold. Pretense being another key word. A "man" being cheated on would use a gun on the front lawn, though preferably a shotgun. It's like the old joke about the best place to find empty beer cans is behind the couch of a Southern Baptist.
I bought this Savoy Brown album around 1970 that had this song about junkies on it called "Needle & Spoon" - which I didn't understand since I was so young. I learned later and always stayed the hell away from sick, conniving heroin shooters as I watched them overdose and rip off my friends - same with cocaine addicts : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDw3nDV5tV8&list=RDxDw3nDV5tV8&start_radio=1&rv=xDw3nDV5tV8&t=31 ~ latest live version I found : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvgdD7JKUng ~ https://www.facebook.com/phil.fellows.3