"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.
"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.