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Music's Lost History When Love Not Death Makes The Classic · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Welcome, Welcome what the music vault? Music lost history? You
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  Speaker 1: know music? You know the story musics lost history? Yo,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on? We are the generation that has been
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  Speaker 1: given so much music, but there's no true connection to
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  Speaker 1: its history. Every song has a story, and every story
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  Speaker 1: is linked to this generation. Welcome to the music vault.
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  Speaker 1: When you boil it all down and you look beyond
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  Speaker 1: the surface of sound, the most famous rock classics usually
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  Speaker 1: appear in conversations as total misunderstandings. Let's see if you
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  Speaker 1: can guess the title of this featured piece, which was
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  Speaker 1: written by the legendary Ronnie van Zandt and Alan Collins,
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  Speaker 1: making its first public appearance on the band's debut album
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy three. The story someone who loves another
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  Speaker 1: person but knows they don't love what it takes to
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  Speaker 1: settle down. The song's title is a metaphor for someone
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  Speaker 1: whose heart belongs to freedom. Rather than making a promise,
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  Speaker 1: they can't keep up with that, so the singer or
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  Speaker 1: the storyteller chooses to leave the circle of love. The
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  Speaker 1: opening line completely sets up the tone. If I leave
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  Speaker 1: here tomorrow, would you remember me? It's not about rejecting love.
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  Speaker 1: It's about admitting that feeling of being sometimes in love
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  Speaker 1: which pulls and tugs on the strings of our freedom.
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  Speaker 1: What legendary classic rock song is this? More hints on
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  Speaker 1: the way musics. Hey, welcome back to Music's Lost History.
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  Speaker 1: Inspired by a girlfriend, Alan Collins heard his love interest
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  Speaker 1: pop that question, if I leave here tomorrow, would you
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  Speaker 1: still remember me? That's the inspiration. It was Ronnie van
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  Speaker 1: Zandt that expanded the song into a power choice and
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  Speaker 1: honest path, one that is based on pretending. In nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy seven, the song took a different meaning after a
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  Speaker 1: tragic plane crash that killed van Zandt. Many many many
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  Speaker 1: fans still believe today that Freebird is a tribute to
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  Speaker 1: one of the best in Southern rock songwriting. But it's not.
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  Speaker 1: Freebird from Leonard Skinnard was brought to life due to
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  Speaker 1: the tension between love and personal freedom, being honest and
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  Speaker 1: walking a path that you truly take on yourself no
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  Speaker 1: matter how bad it hurts. Emotional honesty. That's Freebird, and
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  Speaker 1: that's music's Lost history. My name is Arro