This previous weekend gave us a collaboration that introduced a basic music full circle. Brent Smith, who scored a large hit with Shinedown overlaying Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Simple Man,” had an opportunity to staff up with the music’s originators onstage in Nashville.
The collaboration happened Sunday (Nov. 13) throughout Lynyrd Skynyrd’s efficiency on the Ryman Auditorium, and singer Johnny Van Van had some sort phrases to say in introducing Smith. “This next guest, these guys, his band, they’re from Jacksonville, Florida, by the way — where Lynyrd Skynyrd’s from. And they did this song so great. When we were thinking about doing this show, I said, ‘Man, we’d love to have him.’ Y’all give it up for our good buddy… Y’all give it up for Mr. Smith from Shinedown.”
“Simple Man,” in fact, has a protracted historical past with Shinedown since being included with the group’s debut album, Leave a Whisper. The cowl hit No. 5 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart and has been licensed as a platinum single for the band.
Despite it being a fan favourite, there was a interval early on in Shinedown’s profession the place they’d taken it out of their units, till, as Smith informed us in 2018, Godsmack vocalist Sully Erna had pulled him apart after catching a present and convincing him to reinstate it within the set. “Listen, far be it from me to tell you what to do with your career. But let me give you a little bit of advice, it’s not your song to hold onto,” Smith says Erna informed him.
“He wasn’t talking about the fact that I didn’t write the song or anything. He was making a point about the audience loving the version that we do. You have to sing these [popular] songs and you have to sing that song. He was making the point about it’s not about the painter it’s about the painting and that stuck with me for a long time. The following night we put the song back in the set,” Smith recalled.
“Simple Man” additionally has an equally storied historical past with Lynyrd Skynyrd, additionally showing on their debut album, (Pronounced ‘Lĕh-‘nérd ‘Skin-‘nérd). Though not initially launched as a single off their debut album, it is remained a staple of the band’s stay reveals and is at the moment their third best-selling digital music.
After having the second to share the stage with the originators of certainly one of Shinedown’s most beloved tracks, Smith acknowledged through social media, “Still trying to process this moment… Thank you @skynyrd and @johnnyroyvanzant for allowing me to be a part of this extraordinary event!!!”
Watch fan-shot footage of the efficiency under.
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