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Released
  
February 2, 1976

Artist
  
Lynyrd Skynyrd

Producer
  
Tom Dowd

Genres
  
Southern rock, Hard rock

Length
  
34:57

Release date
  
2 February 1976

Label
  
MCA Records

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Recorded
  
Sep. 7-9, 1975 at the Record Plant, Los Angeles (tracks 2,4,8) and Nov. 28-30, 1975 at Capricorn Studios, Macon, Georgia

Gimme Back My Bullets(1976)
  
Street Survivors(1977)

Similar
  
Ronnie Van Zant albums, Southern rock albums

Gimme Back My Bullets is Lynyrd Skynyrd's fourth studio album. It was released on February 2, 1976. It reached # 20 on the U.S. albums chart. The album was certified Gold on 1/20/1981 by the RIAA.

Contents

The album was originally titled Ain't No Dowd About It, in tribute to the producer Tom Dowd, whom the band idolized. It remains the only studio album by the precrash lineup to have not yet reached platinum or higher in the United States. However, it did include the hits "Gimme Back My Bullets", "Searching", "Double Trouble", and "Cry for the Bad Man". Dinosaur Jr. frontman J Mascis covered the song "Every Mother's Son" on his 1996 solo album, Martin + Me.

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Side one

  1. "Gimme Back My Bullets" (Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant) – 3:28
  2. "Every Mother's Son" (Allen Collins, Van Zant) – 4:56
  3. "Trust" (Collins, Rossington, Van Zant) – 4:25
  4. "I Got the Same Old Blues" (J.J. Cale) – 4:08

Side two

  1. "Double Trouble" (Collins, Van Zant) – 2:49
  2. "Roll Gypsy Roll" (Collins, Rossington, Van Zant) – 2:50
  3. "Searching" (Collins, Van Zant) – 3:17
  4. "Cry for the Bad Man" (Collins, Rossington, Van Zant) – 4:48
  5. "All I Can Do Is Write About It" (Collins, Van Zant) – 4:16

1999 CD reissue bonus tracks

  1. "Gimme Back My Bullets" (Live-3/7/1976 at the Winterland in San Francisco, CA) (Rossington, Van Zant) – 4:18
  2. "Cry for the Bad Man" (Live-3/7/1976 at the Winterand in San Francisco, CA) (Collins, Rossington, Van Zant) – 5:35
  • Tracks 10-11 are previously unreleased.

    • 2006 CD Deluxe Edition bonus tracks

    1. "Double Trouble" (Live-11/4/1975 at the Capitol Theatre in Cardiff, Wales) (Collins, Van Zant) - 3:13
    2. "(I Got the) Same Old Blues" (Live-11/4/1975 at the Capitol Theatre in Cardiff, Wales) (Cale) - 4:13
    3. "Gimme Back My Bullets" (Live-3/7/1976 at the Winterland in San Francisco, CA) (Rossington, Van Zant) – 4:18
    4. "Cry for the Bad Man" (Live-3/7/1976 at the Winterland in San Francisco) (Collins, Rossington, Van Zant) – 5:35
    5. "All I Can Do Is Write About It" (Acoustic) (Collins, Van Zant) - 4:24
    6. "Double Trouble" (Alternate) (Collins, Van Zant) - 2:51
  • Tracks 10 and 14 originally released on the Lynyrd Skynyrd (Box Set) (1991)
  • Track 15 originally released on Skynyrd's Innyrds (1989)
  • Track 11 is previously unreleased

    • 2006 Deluxe Edition bonus DVD

    1. "Double Trouble" (Collins, Van Zant)
    2. "I Ain't the One" (Rossington, Van Zant)
    3. "Call Me the Breeze" (Cale)
    4. "(I Got the) Same Old Blues" (Cale)
    5. "Every Mother's Son" (Collins, Van Zant)
    6. "Sweet Home Alabama" (Ed King, Rossington, Van Zant)
    7. "Free Bird" (Collins, Van Zant)
  • All tracks recorded live for "The Old Grey Whistle Test" on BBC television on November 11, 1975.

    • Personnel

    Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Ronnie Van Zant – lead vocals, lyrics
  • Allen Collins – guitars
  • Gary Rossington – guitars
  • Billy Powell – keyboards
  • Leon Wilkeson – bass, background vocals
  • Artimus Pyle – drums, percussion
    • Additional personnel
  • The Honkettes - background vocals (5,8)
  • Lee Freeman - harp (4)
  • Barry Lee Harwood - dobro, mandolin (9)

    • Songs

    1Gimme Back My Bullets3:30
    2Every Mother's Son4:58
    3Trust4:25

    References

    Gimme Back My Bullets Wikipedia
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