Lynyrd Skynyrd - Skynyrd's First: The Complete Muscle Shoals Album
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Artist: Lynyrd SkynyrdBrand: LYNYRD SKYNYRD
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1998-11-17
Music Label: Mca
Soundtracks:
- Free Bird
- One More Time
- Gimme Three Steps
- Was I Right Or Wrong
- Preacher's Daughter
- White Dove
- Down South Jukin'
- Wino
- Simple Man
- Trust
- Comin' Home
- The Seasons
- Lend A Helpin' Hand
- Things Goin' On
- I Ain't The One
- You Run Around
- Ain't Too Proud To Pray
Music reviews of Skynyrd's First: The Complete Muscle Shoals Album
Music Review: 4 1/2 , really
Rating: 4 Stars
I can see why you might be thinking "but I have almost all of those songs!"
But you don't. Well, yes, you probably do have "Free Bird" and "I Ain't The One" and "Gimme Three Steps" and most of the others, but these aren't the versions found on "Pronounced 'l'eh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd", "Second Helping" and so on. This album is (mostly) identical to Lynyrd Skynyrd's uinissued pre-MCA Muscle Shoals album, and this lean, piano-driven (and previously unreleased) "Free Bird" is significantly different from the later one. "I Ain't The One" and "Gimme Three Steps" sound much more basic and simple in these three-chord gararge rock renditions, and much more raw as well, especially "Steps". And these powerful, riff-driven, and somewhat slower 1972 versions of "Trust" and "Things Goin' On" almost eclipse the ones which was later released on "Gimme Back My Bullets" and "Pronounced" respectively. Bare-bones garage rock at its finest, just some amazing vocals, a series of gritty riffs and solos, and plenty of room for the backbeat of drummer Bob Burns to breathe.
Some of these songs have appeared as bonus tracks on the relatively recent (late-90s) reissues of Skynyrd's MCA albums, although not necessarily in identical versions. One of the album's best songs, "Was I Right Or Wrong", for instance, is also on the remastered 1997 edition of "Second Helping", but this version is superior, one of the true gems of Skynyrd's catalogue. A wonderful original take on "Down South Jukin'" is here as well, simpler and more organic than the bonus track on the remastered "Pronounced", but just as great. And the soulful country-rock of "Comin' Home" is finally available elsewhere than on the 1991 "Essential" compilation.
The sound here is leaner and less dense (and the playing is perhaps slightly less accomplished) than on the "real" Skynyrd albums, but that doesn't make these songs lesser, just different. There are several tremendous guitar solos and wonderful instrumental interplays here. And Ronnie van Zant is terrific, versatile and expressive.
A few songs don't really sound particularly Skynyrd-like, including three songs penned and sung by then-drummer Rickey Medlocke (the ballads "White Dove" and "Ain't Too Proud To Pray", and the semi-acoustic country rock of "The Seasons"), the slightly stereotypical early-70s hard rock of "You Run Around", and the riff-rocker "Wino", which is an obvious Cream-knockoff. But if Lynyrd Skynyrd weren't yet so indelibly "southern" back in 1971, they were really no less great.
There are a few lesser numbers here, sure, but song for song this is some of the strongest material on any Lynyrd Skynyrd release, and you're really getting your money's worth here, with 17 songs and about 78 minutes of music on the little silver disc.
A find for any and all Skynyrd fans!
Description of Skynyrd's First: The Complete Muscle Shoals Album
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Media Type: CD
Artist: LYNYRD SKYNYRD
Title: SKYNYRD'S FIRST
Street Release Date: 11/17/1998
Genre: ROCK/POP
Nine of the 17 tracks on this historical curio surfaced on the 1978 LP Skynyrd's First and... Last, but more than a quarter of a century passed between the 1971/'72 sessions that produced these germinating tracks and their full appearance. Skynyrd's First: The Muscle Shoals Album documents a group of young musicians finding their footing, but by no means is it an amateurish affair. While ongoing personnel shifts are in evidence (only Ronnie Van Zant, Albert Collins, and Gary Rossington from the classic lineup appear throughout), the playing and writing is surprisingly tight. It's easy to see why veteran session man Jimmy Johnson, the producer of the sessions, insisted: "I had never heard a band that were that well rehearsed and had their songs together." The excellent liner notes make this package all the more appealing to Lynyrd loyalists. --Steven Stolder
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