Written by Billy Powell, Edward King, and Ronnie Van Zant, this song is about Lynyrd Skynyrd's time on the road while touring from town to town. Ronnie Van Zant came across a "stupid writer" who asked him "what are you man?" Ronnie Van Zant responded to the writer, saying he is a "Whiskey Rock a Roller."
This song was released on the Nuthin' Fancy album on March 24, 1975. There are also two other recordings of this song that are on Skynyrd's live album One More From the Road. In one if these recordings, Ronnie Van Zant forgets the song, and has to ask the back up singers (the Honketts) what the song is. On the other live version. Ronnie changes the opening lyrics to "I'm traveling down a highway, got a blue sky on my head, movin' down this highway 500 miles away."
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