Video - Leningrad Cowboys & Red Army Choir - SWEET HOME ALABAMA

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Youtubery - Comrades know what’s up edition
Published 3/11/2008 by crimson daddy at Third Saturday in Blogtober
This may be my favorite cover of this song of all time. Twenty bucks says they don’t know Rocky Top.

YouTube love: Sweet Home Alabama with a twist
Published 3/19/2008 by Michael Rand at Randball
MR sends along this outstanding video of the Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Choir teaming up to cover “Sweet Home Alabama.” Love it for the juxtaposed politics. Love it for the hair. But please do love it.

Reporters' Notebooks
Published 3/20/2008 by dawizofodds at The Wizard of Odds
Kyle Hightowner Iliana Limon, Orlando Sentinel: Initial autopsy results performed on Central Florida receiver Ereck Plancher were inconclusive about the cause of his death. Joseph Goodman, Miami Herald: Emmanuel Moody, the transfer running back from USC, is having trouble adjusting to Florida's offense. Michael DiRocco, Florida Times-Union: Florida offensive lineman James Wilson is back on the field for spring drills, but says there is still a chance he will transfer this summer. Jonathan Okanes, Contra Costa Times: Running back James Montgomery said his decision to ...

SWEET HOME HELSINKI IS HERE TO BLOW YOUR MIND
Published 4/9/2008 by Orson Swindle at EDSBS
It’s a Finnish band with a Russian name wearing Kool World haircuts doing a Lynyrd Skynyrd song in English with the Red Army choir singing behind them. We don’t understand it either, but if they don’t play halftime at Bryant-Denny Stadium with this exact instrumentation and military vocal support, Alabama fans you have been cheated of something truly awesome. (HT: To the Point, via Kanu.) ...

“Sweet Home Alabama” the way the good lord intended it
Published 5/8/2008 by Extra P. at The Extrapolater

STUFF CRIMSON AND WHITE PEOPLE LIKE
Published 6/12/2008 by Holly at EDSBS
Via the Alabama gentlemen of Picture Me Rollin and Uncle Rico’s Time Machine comes the latest installment of our rippity-offity Stuff ______ People Like series Coach Bryant: This is perhaps too obvious, but there is little doubt that since the apotheosis of General Robert E. Lee there has not been as much hero worship directed toward an individual until the time of Paul William “Bear” Bryant. There are goods odds that you could walk into any mom and pop diner in most parts of Alabama and start a very healthy debate amongst people that adamantly believe that debating is for sissies, if ...