Is country music moving more towards southern rock, or is southern rock moving more towards country?
JVZ: I think it is in between. I really do. I know I talked with Kenny Chesney one time. We became friends a while back and I was talking to him on the phone. I asked him what he was doing and he said he was on his bus watching our DVD, “Live From Steeltown.” Again, I think it goes back and forth these days. And there’s nothing wrong with that. You know, they gave Lynyrd Skynyrd the tag of southern rock because it had country in it. They really didn’t know in the old days what to even call that kind of music. So they named it southern rock–basically Rock and Roll with a little bit of country in it. KMJ: Tell me about the new album and describe it for your fans. JVZ: I think the new record has a little bit of something for everybody. It has a country flavor, a blues flavor and a rock flavor to it. Lyrically, we stuck to stuff we’ve always written about and that’s stuff that’s happening around us, somebody we know or the world in general. That’s what Skynyrd has always been known for. KM
