A family friend says Ed King, a former guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd who helped write several of their hits including "Sweet Home Alabama," has died in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 68. Scott Coopwood ...

Gibson has unveiled its latest high-end Les Paul, an exacting Custom Shop recreation of Ed King’s famed “Red Eye” 1959 Les Paul Standard. The guitar is named after the bright red area of finish near ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd was and seemingly always will be the band most synonymous with southern rock. Thanks to their hit songs “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Free Bird,” “Simple Man,” and “Tuesday’s Gone,” the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Ed King, a former guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd who helped write several of the group’s hits including “Sweet Home Alabama,” has died in Nashville, Tennessee, according to a ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ed King, a former lead guitarist for the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd who co-wrote one of the group's best known hits, "Sweet Home Alabama," has died at age 68, a founding ...

Another tragedy has struck in the Lynyrd Skynyrd camp. The legendary Southern rock band’s former guitarist and bassist Ed King, the co-writer of “Sweet Home Alabama” and other Skynyrd classics, died ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A family friend says Ed King, a former guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd who helped write several of their hits including "Sweet Home Alabama," has died in Nashville, Tennessee. He ...