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Jonathan Lee

@beetlebump.bsky.social

(1/6) Lynyrd Skynyrd’s One More From the Road was released 50 years ago yesterday when I was 14. That Christmas I received that record & Led Zeppelin’s The Song Remains the Same as gifts from my parents.
#MusicSky #Skynyrd #OneMoreFromTheRoad

September 14, 2026 at 4:04 AM

Jonathan Lee

@beetlebump.bsky.social

(4/6) ”I sure am glad I don’t wear shoes when I’m out there singing,” he whispered. “I love to feel that stage burn.”
#MusicSky #Skynyrd #OneMoreFromTheRoad #RonnieVanZant #LiveAtTheFox

September 14, 2026 at 4:04 AM

Jonathan Lee

@beetlebump.bsky.social

(5/6) One More From the Road was our introduction to Steve Gaines, who helped Skynyrd soar to new heights. A little over a year later tragedy struck when their plane went down in a Mississippi swamp just a few days after the release of Street Survivors.
#MusicSky #Skynyrd #OneMoreFromTheRoad

Steve Gaines at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA

LA Times article reporting on Lynyrd Skynyrd’s plane crash

September 14, 2026 at 4:04 AM

Jonathan Lee

@beetlebump.bsky.social

(2/6) At the start of the year Peter Frampton’s Frampton Comes Alive! was released. It became a huge part of my summer soundtrack. All three records included liner notes from Cameron Crowe.
#MusicSky #Skynyrd #OneMoreFromTheRoad #CameronCrowe

September 14, 2026 at 4:04 AM

Jonathan Lee

@beetlebump.bsky.social

(3/6) From One More From the Road:

When the last notes of “Free Bird” had faded out on the third night, they had given everything. Euphoric & exhausted, Ronnie Van Zant plopped on a backstage sofa & kicked his bare feet onto a table. His voice was gone.
#MusicSky #Skynyrd #OneMoreFromTheRoad