Sweet Home Alabama
Sweet Home Alabama transformed that wedding hall into shot glass whiskey on long wooden bars, black plastic ashtrays, thick paper coasters with uncomfortable flags for the Confederacy, forgotten Dixie cups of Budweiser on amps, scuffed cowboy boots, and rattlesnake neckties. There were girls with red polka dot shirts tied off on their chests like the Dukes of Hazzard, and guys holding pool sticks straight up and down like pitchforks. There were backlit plastic waterfalls circulating in Rolling Rock signs, sticky red barstools, lip dangling cigarettes, amp burning cigarettes, cigarettes tucked into guitar strings near the tuning knobs. There were juke boxes you could kick to get free songs and pinky-finger guitar slides made from the necks of broken beer bottles.
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