Stay updated with breaking news from Gene Odom. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
A new monument was added to the Mississippi Memorial Friday afternoon honoring those who died in the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash 46 years ago near the town of Gillsburg.
In light of founding member Gary Rossington’s death, let’s revisit the complicated history of Lynyrd Skynyrd
It was 45 years ago today (October 20th, 1977), that a plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed in a swamp near Gillsburg, Mississippi. At the time, the group was en route to its next show in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The crash took the lives of lead singer Ronnie Van Zant; guitarist Steve Gaines and his sister, backup singer Cassie Gaines; Skynyrd manager Dean Kilpatrick, as well as the plane's two pilots Walter McCreary and William Gray. Three days before the crash (October 17th), the band released its fifth album, Street Survivors, which featured the soon-to-be classics "What's Yo...
Opportunities to stay in a home where legends lived don't come along every often, but on a leafy backstreet in the Hillcrest neighbourhood of Jacksonville, FL. sits the house where Ronnie, Donnie and Johnny Van Zant grew up. And it's on AirBnB. The house, which sleeps up to six guests, was purchased by local investor Todd Smith in 2015, and three years later the Florida Department Of State declared it a historical site. A sign was erected outside, confirming the property as the former home of Lynyrd Skynyrd founder Ronnie Van Zant, current Skynyrd singer Johnny, and ...
October 20, 1977: We look back at that tragic day when the plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashes in a swamp.