

“’Bygones’ is an original song of mine featuring Rob Halford from Judas Priest with Nikki Sixx and John 5. The second and third tracks follow the release of Parton’s self-penned lead single “World On Fire,” which became a #1 song on the Billboard Rock Digital Songs chart upon release last month. Ann Wilson) with special guest Howard Leese are available now. Rob Halford) with special guests Nikki Sixx and John 5 and a personalized cover of the Rock classic “Magic Man" (Carl Version) (feat. Parton recently released two new tracks from her forthcoming Rockstar album, arriving November 17. I also have to recognize my co-producer on the album and co-writer on this song, Kent Wells, who helped me bring this song to life. “To debut at #1 on the Rock charts is such a thrill for me, and it makes it even sweeter to share this with Rob, Nikki, and John 5. “I am so excited to see the response ‘Bygones’ is receiving!” Parton said in a release. The track is featured on her upcoming album Rockstar and is her second consecutive #1 chart-topper following “World On Fire”. Parton continues to achieve chart success with her music as her “Bygones” single featuring Judas Priest singer Rob Halford with special guests Nikki Sixx and John 5 has reached #1 on the Mediabase Classic Rock Songs chart.

I felt really honored to get to sing ‘Free Bird’ and ‘Stairway To Heaven,’ and I hope people will appreciate my version of them.” I remember getting so lost in the music, just singing wherever I felt it.

And it just goes on forever lord, it’s a 10-minute song! At least five or six minutes is guitar. I’d already sung my version, and I didn’t know his voice enough, but then our phrasing turned out to be almost just exact when we were singing on the song! They just dropped it in the way they manipulate those things now. She allowed that, and I was so happy we got to use his real voice. That’s not going to be on the Lynyrd Skynyrd record, only the version we did. Music historians examining the juxtaposition of invoking Richard Nixon and Watergate after Wallace and Birmingham note that one reading of the lyrics is an “attack against the liberals who were so outraged at Nixon’s conduct” while others interpret it regionally: “the band was speaking for the entire South, saying to northerners, we’re not judging you as ordinary citizens for the failures of your leaders in Watergate don’t judge all of us as individuals for the racial problems of southern society”.“Then Ronnie Van Zant's widow allowed us to use his voice on our record. “Wallace and I have very little in common,” Van Zant himself said, “I don’t like what he says about colored people.” Journalist Al Swenson argues that the song is more complex than it is sometimes given credit for, suggesting that it only looks like an endorsement of Wallace.

“‘We tried to get Wallace out of there’ is how I always thought of it.” Towards the end of the song, Van Zant adds “where the governor’s true” to the chorus’s “where the skies are so blue,” a line rendered ironic by the previous booing of the governor. The general public didn’t notice the words ‘Boo! Boo! Boo!’ after that particular line, and the media picked up only on the reference to the people loving the governor.” “The line ‘We all did what we could do’ is sort of ambiguous,” Al Kooper notes. Segregationist police chief Bull Connor unleashed attack dogs and high-pressure water cannons against peaceful marchers, including women and children just weeks later, Ku Klux Klansmen bombed a black church, killing four little girls.” In 1975, Van Zant said: “The lyrics about the governor of Alabama were misunderstood. sought to desegregate downtown businesses… was the scene of some of the most violent moments of the Civil Rights Movement. It has been pointed out that the choice of Birmingham in connection with the governor (rather than the capital Montgomery) is significant for the controversy as “In 1963, the city was the site of massive civil rights activism, as thousands of demonstrators led by Martin Luther King, Jr.
