Lynyrd Skynyrd Free Bird

Dear Gene:

Thank you for taking the time and putting in the effort it took for you to write your book "Remembering the Free Birds…:" I have just finished it, and couldn’t put it down. I am a pain management physician (and anesthesiologist) in Mobile and found myself reading it in between seeing patients in the office!  

I’m also a guitar player and with my local band here, we play a few Synyrd songs of course, which is quite fun. I’ve got tickets to see the band with Johnnie in Gulf Shores, Al. this Memorial Day weekend. Can’t wait. I’ve got a couple of my patients who are musicians , rockers (and also LS fans) whom I’m gonna purchase a couple of copies of your book for as gifts, as well. I’ve been a fan since I was an 10 year old kid in 1975 growing up in Atlanta. I remember the fall of ’77 as being a depresing time for me, as Elvis passed in August and then the accident with you guys in October. I told my brother David, the other day,  who is an attorney now in Atlanta, that I couldn’t believe it’s coming up on 30 years.

Thanks again,

J. Patrick Couch, MD
(rockindoc)