A family friend says Ed King, a former guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd who helped write several of their hits including "Sweet Home Alabama," has died in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 68. Scott Coopwood ...

The iconic guitar solos in 'Sweet Home Alabama' would've been taken out if producer Al Kooper had gotten his way. Luckily, he ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd was and seemingly always will be the band most synonymous with southern rock. Thanks to their hit songs “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Free Bird,” “Simple Man,” and “Tuesday’s Gone,” the ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ed King, a former lead guitarist for the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd who co-wrote one of the group's best known hits, "Sweet Home Alabama," has died at age 68, a founding ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A family friend says Ed King, a former guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd who helped write several of their hits including "Sweet Home Alabama," has died in Nashville, Tennessee. He ...

Another tragedy has struck in the Lynyrd Skynyrd camp. The legendary Southern rock band’s former guitarist and bassist Ed King, the co-writer of “Sweet Home Alabama” and other Skynyrd classics, died ...