Lynyrd Skynyrd - All Time Greatest Hits

Artist:

Lynyrd Skynyrd

See Also:

Wolf, Howlin` Original Soundtrack - Freebird, The Movie Various Artists - Sweet Home Alabama: A Tribute To Lynyrd Skynyrd Various Artists - An All-Star Tribute To Lynyrd Skynyrd [3/13]

Description:

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Steve Gaines (vocals, guitar); Ronnie Van Zant (vocals); Ed King (electric & slide guitars, bass); Gary Rossington (electric & slide guitars); Allen Collins (electric guitar); Billy Powell (piano, keyboards); Leon Wilkeson (bass, background vocals); Greg Walker (bass); Ricky Medlocke (drums, background vocals); Artimus Pyle, Bob Burns (drums).
Additional personnel: Bobby Keyes, Trevor Lawrence, Steve Madiao (horns); Al Kooper (piano, organ, Moog synthesizer, background vocals); Tim Smith, Clydie King, Merry Clayton, Cassie Gaines, Jo Billingsley, Leslie Hawkins (background vocals).
Producers: Al Kooper, Tom Dowd, Lynryd Skynyrd, Tim Smith, Jimmy R. Johnson.
Compilation producer: Ron O`Brien.
Recorded between 1973 & 1978. Includes liner notes by Ron O`Brien.
Digitally remastered by Doug Schwartz.
Whether you take the title ALL TIME GREATEST HITS literally or not, it`s hard to dispute that, give or take a couple of Allman Brothers albums, this is pretty much the high-water mark for `70s Southern rock. All the group`s crowd pleasers are included, and, as always, it`s hard not to be impressed both by their three-guitar-army attack and by the range of the late Ronnie Van Zant`s songwriting.
Along with de rigeur cautionary anti-drug songs and tales of groupie encounters such as "That Smell" and "What`s Your Name" respectively, Van Zant also deals with regional pride and arrogant pop stars in "Sweet Home Alabama," and gun control in the extremely-gutsy-for-the-time "Saturday Night Special." Motherhood is also embraced, in the even gutsier "Simple Man." The album includes Skynyrd`s joyous cover of J. J. Cale`s "Call Me the Breeze," plus of course the Southern rock anthem "Free Bird." All in all there`s not a dud in the bunch.

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Sweet Home Alabama
2. Gimme Three Steps
3. Simple Man
4. Saturday Night Special
5. Swamp Music
6. Ballad of Curtis Lowe, The
7. Call Me the Breeze
8. Comin` Home
9. Gimme Back My Bullets
10. What`s Your Name
11. You Got That Right
12. All I Could Do Is Write About It - (acoustic)
13. That Smell
14. Free Bird

Album Information

Release Date:

03/14/2000

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Subgenre:

Southern Rock

Label:

MCA Records (USA)

Catalog Number:

112 229

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Mixed

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

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