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'''The Ballad of Curtis Loew''' is a Southern rock song by [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]] from their album ''Second Helpings''.

'''The Ballad of Curtis Loew''' is a Southern rock song by [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]] from their album ''Second Helping''.

The song's narrator remembers when he was a young boy (around age 10), he would look for bottles to cash in (back before plastic disposable bottles came into vogue), and then give his money to the song's titular character (pronounced "low"), a Black man who was a talented musician but was also an alcoholic and had aged considerably as a result ("he looked to be 60").  Despite repeated punishment from his mother, the young boy would continue to give the man money in exchange for hearing him play.

The song's narrator remembers when he was a young boy (around age 10), he would look for bottles to cash in (back before plastic disposable bottles came into vogue), and then give his money to the song's titular character (pronounced "low"), a Black man who was a talented musician but was also an alcoholic and had aged considerably as a result ("he looked to be 60").  Despite repeated punishment from his mother, the young boy would continue to give the man money in exchange for hearing him play.