Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More From the Road
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Free Music Review: Best American Band
Hit: 5 Stars
Skynyrd is the greatest American rock band, not only by talent and professional dedication, but they earned that title by default. That is a title Ronnie and crew earned when their plane unfortunately crashed and ended the lives of several members. Aerosmith has sold more albums and Tom Petty dominated MTV for a while. Bob Dylyn dominated the 1960's cultural scene, but had strong anti-social tendancies. When you get down to grass-roots basic rock/rhythm and blues, nobody can top the scorching leads on T for Texas, the slide on Traveling Man, etc. In addition, Skynyrd knew how to handle the media and during their brief tenure, they encapsulated more classic hit songs than any other band.
Were they perfect? No. No band has ever been perfect. The band became perfect when on that fateful day in Mississippi when several lives were tragically shortened.
On a personal note, I own a Peavey Deuce 120 Watt amp because this is the amp Skynyrd used on this album. Should Skynyrd be in the Hall of Fame. Of course. But the fact that they aren't personifies true Rock-n-Roll integrity. Eminem accepted a Grammy after he recorded that he would never do it. Johnny Rotton is bloated and overweight.
This CD can be listened to over and over. It will never grow stale. Skynyrd picked up on where Duane Allman left off. Live at Fillmore East is the greatest blues ever recorded. One More From the Road is the greated Rock/Rhyhtm and Blues ever produced. I can't imagine another album anywhere, anytime that could possibly equal or surpass One More From the Road in calibur. Only Hendrix at Monterey can be compared to the legacy of this recording.
I would like to plug Artimus Pyle, who I did not know until recently that he was incidentally a model stateside Marine during Vietnam. It was probably because of that benign element, Skynyrd was able to take it to the level that they did.
Free Music Review: A Truly Classic Live Album
Hit: 5 Stars
When Lynyrd Skynyrd first appeared on the scene, I was working oil in Louisiana and Mississippi. At the time, I was almost strictly into jazz though most of my co-workers were almost strictly into rock and roll. Naturally, I heard Lynyrd Skynyrd, both on the radio and at social functions but I always thought they were no more than just OK until I chanced to hear One More From The Road at a party shortly after its release.
THAT is when I became a Lynyrd Skynyrd convert. On this album, every song came alive in a way I never heard on their studio records. I especially was entranced by their renditions of T For Texas and Call Me the Breeze and by the quality of the band's three-guitar assault on the senses.
Now more than thirty years later, I encountered this remastered special edition while trolling for new music and decided to see if I still liked it as much now as back then. Man, do I ever. Every song, including the overplayed Free Bird and Sweet Home Alabama is a winner. There is so much quality high-energy rock and roll on this album that it boggles the mind. There is no need to rehash what most other reviewers have said. This is truly a classic among live rock albums. There is zero filler.
Besides all the great music, this remastered set includes an informative booklet complete with song info, original liner notes, pictures, and an interesting overview of the band's trajectory to super-stardom. I'm not going to get into silly speculation about which Southern band best represents the soul of the region. There are many that vie for the title. But when it comes to a live show, One More From The Road proves that on the best of days, few of them have more grit and fire than did Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Free Music Review: Mushroom Heads: Stay Home
Hit: 5 Stars
Are Allman Brothers fans so insecure about the status of their band that they desperately need to hype them by jumping headings to trash a Skynyrd album? Judging from the review by Kevin C. Boyd, apparently so. Comparing Skynyrd with the Allman Brothers is like comparing the Beatles with the Stones: they are two uniquely different groups. That does not mean that one is any better or worse than the other. To look at either group in such a simplistic way totally misses the point and demeans both bands. Skynyrd would be the first to admit that their fore-Brothers and "Live at the Fillmore East" were one of their main inspirations. That hardly relegates Skynyrd and "One More From The Road" to the automatic third-rate status Mr. Boyd dogmatically condemns them to. Where the Brothers were a great ensemble who used a song as a jumping off point for inspired open-ended jams that pushed the boundaries of the music, Skynyrd were great autobiographical songwriters in the mold of the Beatles, who focused their musical energy into precise, incendiary live performances that showcased their brilliant anthems of the common man. In his diatribe, Mr. Boyd totally misunderstands Skynyrd, while blindly deifying the Brothers. Skynyrd's powerful performance on "One More From The Road" no more invalidates the Allman's classic "Live at the Fillmore East" than does the Allman's landmark recording negate Skynyrd's legendary live album. To dismiss Skynyrd's performance on "One More From The Road," simply because of your own personal bias for the Allman Brothers, Mr. Boyd, is preposterousFree Music Review: America's Best Rock Band
Hit: 5 Stars
The Amazon review describes Lynyrd Skynyrd as a "redneck Led Zeppelin." There's some truth in that: Zep was the best rock band to come out of Britain, while Skynyrd was America's best rock band. Unlike the Allman Brothers Band (whose fans have seen fit to show up here talking trash), Skynyrd created a sound that was truly unique, fusing rock, blues, gospel, country and even a touch of jazz into a sound that was at once accessable and identifiable. This album was one I had as a kid, and it's unfortunately as close as any of us will get to seeing a real Skynyrd show. How unfortunate that the band felt too pressured to let the planned filming of the shows go on! I'd encourage anyone who thinks this band was only "Free Bird" and "Sweet Home Alabama" to explore the rest of their music. Lynyrd Skynyrd is a benchmark against which all American rock bands can be measured, just as Zeppelin is for British rock, from the depth of their musical style and influences to their impact on the players who grew up in their wake. One last word, for this goofed-up PeeCee world: The Rebel flag wasn't anything racist when they flew it. It was simply a declaration of southern pride, during a time when the American south was popularly perceived to be of little consequence, culturally or otherwise. Dig up "Second Helping" and listen to "The Ballad of Curtis Loew" if you don't believe me; that type of ballad is written about one's heroes, and racists don't tend to have old black blues players as heroes.Free Music Review: 4 1/2 stars. Excellent
Hit: 5 Stars
This two-disc, two-and-a-half hour deluxe edition of Skynyrd's fifth album is perhaps the most enjoyable item in their catalogue. Okay, so it's not highly intellectual music, but there are plenty of big riffs, big hooks, great melodies and smoking solos here.
The songs from the original line-up's last album, which came out the year after this one, are obviously missing, but almost all the best material from their first four LPs is here.
The many, many highlights include wonderful, crisp renditions of songs like "Gimme Three Steps", "I Ain't The One", and "Sweet Home Alabama", and a tough, gritty "Gimme Back My Bullets" which completely outdoes the studio version, as does a terrific, 8-minute "Tuesday's Gone" and a wonderful "Simple Kind Of Man". And this rollicking southern rock-version of "T For Texas (Blue Yodel #1)" is quite irresistable as well.
You'd be forgiven for thinking that Cream did a better Cream on "Crossroads", and I think a ten-minute "Free Bird" might have been better than these two 14-minute "Free Birds", but those are certainly minor complaints. This is a terrific album. The band is tight but powerful, and the sound is top-notch. No Lynyrd Skynyrd fan, casual or diehard, should miss this one.
Great, great stuff, and one of the finest live American rock records of the decade. And a good choice if you're only ever going to invest in one album by Leonard.