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Lynyrd Skynyrd Drummer Robert Burns Junior Dies

April 6, 2015

CARTERSVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Original Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Robert Burns Junior has died in a single-vehicle wreck. Police in Cartersville, Georgia, say Burns was not wearing a seat belt when his vehicle went off a road just before midnight Friday and hit a mailbox and a tree. Further details were not immediately available. Burns was 64. He was with Lynyrd Skynyrd when they recorded “Sweet Home Alabama,” ”Gimme Three Steps” and “Free Bird.” He left the group in 1974 but would play with them from time to time. Guitarist Gary Rossington writes on Facebook he remembers Burns as a guy who made them laugh all the time. He says just last week he went by Burns’ old house, where the band used to practice in the carport when they first started. He calls Burns “a great great drummer.”



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