"At the end of 'My Kind of Country,' we were kind of countried out," Van Zant said. "We got burned out on it. We were just physically and mentally tired." The brothers had talked about recording a ...

Turning his back on the record industry ... The consensus in the room was that they believed Ronnie would’ve wanted them to ...

Johnny Van Zant, 64, still tours with Lynyrd Skynyrd, which he has helmed since the loss of older brother Ronnie Van Zant, who, along with five others, was killed in a plane crash in October 1977.