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can’t beat a bit of Skynyrd. They are to southern rock what the Pope is to
Catholicism. Without Skynyrd there wouldn’t be countless other bands - most
notably The Black Crowes who picked up where Skynyrd left off.Skynyrd’s first album - (Pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd) - is very good. In fact, it’s consistently good all the way through, and a solid blueprint for 1970s southern rock. The trouble is, after that album Skynyrd just churned out the same old thing, album after album, until a plane crash took their vocalist and lead guitarist. (As a sidenote, their poor drummer survived the plane crash only to be shot in the shoulder by a local farmer whose farmhouse he had run to for help.)
There are flashes of brilliance along each of their albums until the (unfortunately named) Street Survivors, but they are few and far between. That’s not to say that the rest of the albums are filler - they’re not - but mostly they could be on any other album by any other southern rock band.
The song Made In The Shade shows an appreciation of old time music - very similar to something you might hear on an album by The Band - and confirms the band’s fondness for roots music, something continually hinted at throughout their career.
Hit: Saturday Night Special
Hidden Gem: Railroad Song
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