“Don't Ask Me No Questions” by Lynyrd Skynyrd

"Don't Ask Me No Questions" comes off Second Helping, Lynyrd Skynyrd's 1974 album for MCA, and it's the sound of a band that just got successful and doesn't much like the company it's keeping. Gary Rossington and Ronnie Van Zant wrote it on a fishing trip, and it's aimed square at the people who wanted nothing to do with the band in the early years and turned demanding once it made good, with the group cast as working-class musicians ill at ease among record companies, managers and agents.

The riff is a plain D-C-G progression dressed up with chicken-pickin' hammer-ons and pull-offs, and a horn section of Bobby Keys, Trevor Lawrence and Steve Madaio sits in. Al Kooper produced and engineered. It never charted; "Sweet Home Alabama" was the song that took them around the world.

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