Every Original CD Reviewed: Lynyrd Skynyrd
Posted Thursday 04/15/2004 1:00 AM in
Back Catalogue
by
Clark Collis
Ronnie Van Zant always said he’d never live to 30. The Lynyrd Skynyrd singer was proven right on the night of October 20, 1977, when a tour plane crashed in Mississippi, killing him, guitarist Steve Gaines, who had joined the band a year before, and Gaines’s sister Cassie, a background singer.Filed Under:
southern rock, skynyrd, lynyrd, allman brothers, sweet home alabama, country, free bird
BLENDER APPROVED
(Pronounced Leh-’nerd Skin-’nerd) (1973)
Second Helping (1974)
Street Survivors (1977)
GREAT
Nuthin' Fancy (1975)
Gimme Back My Bullets (1976)
One More From the Road (1976)
Freebird: The Movie (1997)
CHECK IT OUT
Southern By the Grace of God (1987)
Endangered Species (1994)
Skynyrd's First (1998)
Edge of Forever (1999)
BE CAREFUL
Lyve From Steel Town (1998)
Solo Flytes (1999)
Collectybles (2000)
FOR FANS ONLY
Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991 (1991)
The Last Rebel (1993)
Twenty (1997)
Christmas Time Again (2000)
Lynyrd Skynyrd
MCA, 1991
Forty-seven tracks, many of them rare, make this box set the ultimate Skynyrd starter kit. Dedicated to a depressingly long list of the dead.
The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd
MCA, 1998
Exactly what it says on the tin: all the classic tunes from the pre-crash Skynyrd, plus an acoustic take of “All I Can Do Is Write About It” and live versions of “Whiskey Rock-a-Roller,” “Gimme Back My Bullets” and “Free Bird.”
Legend
MCA, 1987
An excellent Tom Dowd–overseen collection of B-sides and previously unreleased material. In the ’70s, even Skynyrd’s discards still stomped on the competition.
Turn It Up!
CMC, 2002
Instead of stealing Ronnie’s famous demand at the start of “Sweet Home Alabama” (oddly not included here) for its title, this compilation of the band’s ’90s output should have been called The Best of the Worst.
MCA, 1991
Forty-seven tracks, many of them rare, make this box set the ultimate Skynyrd starter kit. Dedicated to a depressingly long list of the dead.
The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd
MCA, 1998
Exactly what it says on the tin: all the classic tunes from the pre-crash Skynyrd, plus an acoustic take of “All I Can Do Is Write About It” and live versions of “Whiskey Rock-a-Roller,” “Gimme Back My Bullets” and “Free Bird.”
Legend
MCA, 1987
An excellent Tom Dowd–overseen collection of B-sides and previously unreleased material. In the ’70s, even Skynyrd’s discards still stomped on the competition.
Turn It Up!
CMC, 2002
Instead of stealing Ronnie’s famous demand at the start of “Sweet Home Alabama” (oddly not included here) for its title, this compilation of the band’s ’90s output should have been called The Best of the Worst.
