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The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd

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Released
  
August 25, 1998

Producer
  
Ron O'Brien

Release date
  
25 August 1998

Recorded
  
1971–1977

Length
  
2:10:47

Artist
  
Lynyrd Skynyrd

Label
  
MCA Records

Genre
  
Southern rock

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The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd, is a two-disc compilation of Lynyrd Skynyrd in the peak years of its classic lineup (1971–1977). The double album was remastered and re-released in 2006 as part of Universal's Gold series.

Contents

Disc 1

  1. "Sweet Home Alabama" (Ed King, Gary Rossington, Ronnie Van Zant) – 4:45
  2. "I Ain't the One" (Rossington, Van Zant) – 3:54
  3. "Was I Right or Wrong?" (Rossington, Van Zant) – 5:24
  4. "Gimme Three Steps" (Allen Collins, Van Zant) – 4:31
  5. "Workin' for MCA" (King, Van Zant) – 4:48
  6. "Simple Man" (Rossington, Van Zant) – 5:58
  7. "Swamp Music" (King, Van Zant) – 3:32
  8. "The Ballad of Curtis Loew" (Collins, Van Zant) – 4:52
  9. "Saturday Night Special" (King, Van Zant) – 5:12
  10. "Mr. Banker" (King, Rossington, Van Zant) – 5:22
  11. "Comin' Home" (Original version) (Collins, Van Zant) – 5:30
  12. "Call Me the Breeze" (J.J. Cale) – 5:09
  13. "Free Bird" (Collins, Van Zant) – 9:10

Disc 2

  1. "What's Your Name??" (Rossington, Van Zant) – 3:33
  2. "Whiskey Rock-a-Roller" (Live) (King, Billy Powell, Van Zant) – 4:16
  3. "Tuesday's Gone" (Collins, Van Zant) – 7:34
  4. "Double Trouble" (Collins, Van Zant) – 2:50
  5. "I Know a Little" (Steve Gaines) – 3:28
  6. "Four Walls of Raiford" (Undubbed demo) (Jeff Carlisi, Van Zant) – 4:14
  7. "I Never Dreamed" (Gaines, Van Zant) – 5:21
  8. "Gimme Back My Bullets" (Live) (Rossington, Van Zant) – 3:42
  9. "You Got That Right" (Gaines, Van Zant) – 3:47
  10. "All I Can Do Is Write About It" (Acoustic version) (Collins, Van Zant) – 4:24
  11. "That Smell" (Collins, Van Zant) – 5:51
  12. "Free Bird" (Live)" (Collins, Van Zant) – 13:41
  • Disc 1, Tracks 1, 5, 7-8, 12 from Second Helping (1974)
  • Disc 1, Tracks 2, 4, 6, and 13 and Disc 2, Track 3 from ((Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)) (1973)
  • Disc 1, Track 3 from Skynyrd's First and... Last (1978)
  • Disc 1, Track 9 from Nuthin' Fancy (1975)
  • Disc 1, Track 10 from Legend (1987)
  • Disc 2, Tracks 1, 5, 7, 9, and 11 from Street Survivors (1977)
  • Disc 2, Tracks 2 and 12 from One More from the Road (1976)
  • Disc 2, Track 4 from Gimme Back My Bullets (1976)
  • Disc 2, Tracks 6, 8, and 10 from the Lynyrd Skynyrd Box Set (1991)
  • Disc 1, Track 11 is previously unreleased (1998)

    • Live Songs

  • Disc 2, Track 2 recorded 7/7/1976 at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia
  • Disc 2, Tracks 8 and 12 recorded 7/8/1976 at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia

    • Songs

    1Sweet Home Alabama4:44
    2I Ain't the One3:53
    3Was I Right or Wrong5:25

    References

    The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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