Skynyrd's First and ... Last

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Skynyrd's First and… Last
Lynyrd Skynyrd's studio album

Publication
(s)

1978, 1998

Label (s) MCA

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

Southern rock

Title (number)

9 or 17

running time

36:36 and 77:48, respectively

production

Jimmy Johnson, Tim Smith

Studio (s)

Muscle Shoals Sound Studio

chronology
Street Survivors
(1977) 		Skynyrd's First and… Last Legend
(1987)

Skynyrd's First and… Last is an album by American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd , which was released by MCA in 1978, one year after the group's plane crash, in which several members died. In 1998 it was revised and released as Skynyrd's First: The Complete Muscle Shoals album .

background

Two years before Lynyrd Skynyrd was due to release Pronounced leh-nerd skin-nerd, their debut album, Jimmy Johnson, a producer at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Muscle Shoals , Alabama , heard about the group based on previous demo recordings and offered to join them record full studio album. Most of the recording sessions took place in June 1971, some songs were not recorded until 1972. However, no record label was found that was ready to release the recordings, so it was postponed. When the band was supposed to be released under the name Skynyrd's First and ... Last after the plane crash in 1978 , some of the songs were slightly revised and supplemented. However, Skynyrd's First: The Complete Muscle Shoals features the original versions and the complete recordings made at the time. Both Rickey Medlocke and Greg T. Walker, both of whom would later become known with the band Blackfoot , are involved in the original songs here.

Track list

Skynyrd's First and… Last

  1. Down South Jukin ' ( Gary Rossington , Ronnie Van Zant ) - 2:12
  2. Preacher's Daughter ( Rickey Medlocke , Ronnie Van Zant) - 3:39
  3. White Dove (Rickey Medlocke) - 2:56
  4. Was I Right or Wrong (Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant) - 5:21
  5. Lend a Helpin 'Hand (Gary Rossington, Allen Collins , Ronnie Van Zant) - 4:24
  6. Wino (Allen Collins, Rickey Medlocke, Ronnie Van Zant) - 3:15
  7. Comin 'Home (Allen Collins, Ronnie Van Zant) - 5:30
  8. The Seasons (Rickey Medlocke) - 4:09
  9. Things Goin 'On (Original Version) (Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant) - 5:10

Skynyrd's First: The Complete Muscle Shoals

  1. Free Bird (Original Version) (Allen Collins, Ronnie Van Zant) - 7:26
  2. One More Time (Original Version) (Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant) - 5:04
  3. Gimme Three Steps (Original Version) (Allen Collins, Ronnie Van Zant) - 4:09
  4. What I Right or Wrong? (Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant) - 5:25
  5. Preacher's Daughter (Rickey Medlocke, Ronnie Van Zant) - 3:40
  6. White Dove (Rickey Medlocke) - 2:58
  7. Down South Jukin ' (Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant) - 2:14
  8. Wino (Original Version) (Allen Collins, Rickey Medlocke, Ronnie Van Zant) - 3:16
  9. Simple Man (Original Version) (Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant) - 5:25
  10. Trust (Original Version) (Allen Collins, Ronnie Van Zant) - 4:14
  11. Comin 'Home (Original Version) (Allen Collins, Ronnie Van Zant) - 5:30
  12. The Seasons (Rickey Medlocke) - 4:11
  13. Lend a Helpin 'Hand (Gary Rossington, Allen Collins, Ronnie Van Zant) - 4:22
  14. Things Goin 'On (Original Version) (Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant) - 5:12
  15. I Ain't the One (Original Version) (Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant) - 3:37
  16. You Run Around (Rickey Medlocke) - 5:39
  17. Ain't Too Proud to Pray (Rickey Medlocke) - 5:26

occupation

Chart successes

Skynyrd's First and ... Last reached number 15 on the Billboard 200 . It was awarded gold in September 1978 and platinum in November 1978 by the RIAA .

reception

  • Music journalist Robert Christgau wrote that he would be happy to own this album. However, he would expect more from Lynyrd Skynyrd than good white funk and second-rate protest songs . He awarded a B.
  • Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote on Allmusic that the album was more than a historical curiosity, but not particularly much more. Without the rest of the band 's releases, Skynyrd's First and… Last would be considered a great forgotten hard rock album . But it would only be a footnote on the group's more significant other recordings. It was rated three out of five stars.
  • In Rolling Stone Dave Marsh wrote Skynyrd's First and… Last would not only be a relic for fans, but one of the best albums of the group and compared it to their first two releases Pronounced leh-nerd skin-nerd and Second Helping . Even more than That Smell or Sweet Home Alabama , Was I right or wrong would be the perfect epitaph for Ronnie Van Zant and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ American by birth ... by Ron O'Brien and Andy McKaie. Supplement to The Definitive Lynyrd Skynyrd Collection
  2. ↑ Skynyrd's First and… Last at discogs.com
  3. ↑ Skynyrd's First: The Complete Muscle Shoals at discogs.com
  4. ↑ Chart success at allmusic.com
  5. ↑ Awards at riaa.com
  6. ↑ Reviews at robertchristgau.com
  7. ↑ album at allmusic.com
  8. ^ Album at rollingstone.com