So, I just bought my first Lynyrd Skynyrd record! I say that because it feels weird to acquire one of their records after collecting for about 35 years. I’ve got things in my collection that some folks would absolutely hate, but I know few people that dislike Skynyrd. Why the wait? Well, for all of [...]
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Gimme Back My Bullets represents something of a transitional album for Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd. Guitarist Ed King had departed, and Skynyrd pared down to the twin-guitar attack of Gary Rossington and Allen Collins. The songs on Bullet are shorter slabs of blues-country-rock with some fine moments beyond the title track. Ronnie Van Zant was [...]
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One In The Sun is Steve Gaines’ lone solo album, released nearly 15 years after the tracks were first recorded. Gaines’ own time in the sun was cut tragically short by the plane crash that took his life, his sister Cassie’s and Lynyrd Skynyrd bandmate Ronnie Van Zant’s. The personal tragedy was compounded by the [...]
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“Whiskey bottles, and brand new cars/Oak tree you’re in my way.” — From Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “That Smell” There’s a tangible eeriness that pervades Skynyrd’s Street Survivors that goes beyond the infamous “band in flames” cover. The album that gave Ronnie Van Zant back his “bullets” also served as his swan song. It’s a document of [...]
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