Free Bird is for listening...like when you have an ice cold beer in your hand and your feet in a cool stream on a very hot day. It's also nice on a nippy evening when it's just a bit to chilly, but you sit on the porch anyhow...because Skynard is plying you with alternating rhythms and sweeping chords, managing to make a twang sound sweet. That hypnotic sound holds you in place...and you really didn't want to move anyhow, so it's a win-win situation.