RIP.
A good friend of mine from Nashville played lead guitar on a few of their tours several years ago. He hadn’t told me that he was touring with them’ One day I turned on Emeril, and the band that day was LS. I was stunned! There was Steve!
Heard an interesting story about LS a while back. They were down in Muscle Shoals recording their first album, and went out for a break. When they came back one of their roadies was sitting at the piano playing a beautiful piece of music he had just made up. Nobody in the band even knew he could play, and he didn’t want to tell them he was classically trained because he thought they might make fun of him. They turned on the recorder and the piece ended up being the intro to Freebird, and they had a keyboard player.
Many years ago guitar wiz Wayne Perkins did some studio work for the band. They invited him to play in concert in his hometown of Birmingham, Ala. (He may have played other dates, but that’s the one I remember.