By Steve Newton
Way the hell back in 1986 I interviewed Gary Rossington and his wife Dale Krantz-Rossington.
The happy couple, with two infant daughters, had just released the debut Rossington album, Returned to the Scene of the Crime, their first recording since the breakup of the Rossington-Collins Band in 1982.
Both of Rossington’s previous bands, Rossington-Collins and Lynyrd Skynyrd, had released their albums on MCA Records, as was famously noted in the song “Workin’ for MCA”, off Skynyrd’s Second Helping album.
But the new Rossington album had been put out on the Atlantic Records label, distributed by the powerhouse Warner Music Group.
So at one point in the conversation I asked Gary what made him leave MCA.
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