RIP Gary Rossington: The Simple Man Who Made Lynyrd Skynyrd Endure.

[Reprinted from Daily Wire]

So it’s 1987, and me and my buddies, all home from college, pull up to a bar somewhere out in the sticks near Aurora, Illinois. It borders an abandoned railroad spur and corn and soybean fields surround the gravel parking lot. A rank of gleaming Harleys resting at a slight tilt sit muffler to fat muffler along the walkway. You…