<Ul> <Li> In May 2006, National Review ranked the song number 4 on its list of "50 greatest conservative rock songs". </Li> <Li> In July 2006, CMT ranked it number 1 on the "20 Greatest Southern Rock songs". </Li> <Li> In 2004, the song was ranked number 398 on Rolling Stone's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". </Li> <Li> In 2007, the song was used on the Top Gear Greatest Driving Songs album . </Li> <Li> In 1997, the song was used in movie Con Air . While the song plays in background, Garland Greene (by Steve Buscemi) says to Poe and Baby - O: "Define irony . Bunch of idiots dancing on a plane to a song made famous by a band that died in a plane crash", a reference to the band's 1977 plane crash . The song is also used briefly in the end credits beginning with Buscemi's character gambling until the end of the main cast credits . </Li> </Ul> <Li> In May 2006, National Review ranked the song number 4 on its list of "50 greatest conservative rock songs". </Li> <Li> In July 2006, CMT ranked it number 1 on the "20 Greatest Southern Rock songs". </Li> <Li> In 2004, the song was ranked number 398 on Rolling Stone's list of "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". </Li>

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