Lynyrd Skynyrd - Skynyrd's First: The Complete Muscle Shoals Album
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Free Music Notes for Skynyrd's First: The Complete Muscle Shoals Album
Free Music Review: Be Careful!
Hit: 5 Stars
It doesn't matter what you think you know about Lynyrd Skynyrd.It doesn't matter what you think you know about Southern Rock.
It doesn't matter what you think you know about music at all.
You have NEVER heard anything this amazing!
Sure, the sound quality is a little lacking, and the instrumentals aren't quite as perfect as they became later, but this album is still quite possibly the greatest album ever made. If possible, I'd give it 10 stars. It deserves it. When I heard this CD for the first time, it was on my car CD player. Free Bird started and I thought that it sounded pretty good. Then Ronnie started singing. I literally had to pull my car over to the side of the road to keep from losing control and wrecking. I was so stunned by the beauty of his voice. I opened my mouth to speak, but words wouldn't come out. I gasped out loud. Then, a few seconds later, I gasped again. It actually brought tears to my eyes. I'm not embellishing. This is Ronnie before all the late nights and the drinking and the drugs. Pure, unspoiled Ronnie Van Zant. Absolutely amazing.
The rest of the band is great too. It's a raw sort of sound that really reveals a lot of Skynyrd's character. The grittiness that they made famous is expanded here and it's incredible. But I must digress, Ronnie steals the show. He was always great, but here he's really great. Imagine the most beautiful star in the night sky. Now imagine that for one brief moment, all the clouds are lifted and it shines ten times as bright. You can't take your eyes off it. That star is Ronnie and the cloudless night is this album.
And so, I ask that everyone listening to this CD to be careful. If you're going to listen to this album, make sure there's nothing around they may require your attention for awhile. You won't be able to focus on anything but the music. Your house could catch on fire, and you wouldn't even realize it. This album cannot be summarized in words. You've just got to hear it.
Free Music Review: COMPLETE? YES, REALLY!
Hit: 5 Stars
CORRECTION! "Skynyrd's First" is indeed the first album to present the complete, unadulterated Muscle Shoals album. There are no tracks missing or added. This is everything that was recorded in "Sweet Home Alabama" between 1971 and 1972. CD-Heaven's review (below) is just dead wrong in stating that the two tracks from the 1982 compilation "Best of the Rest" are from the Muscle Shoals sessions. These tracks have also been purported by various sources to be from a non-existent single, supposedly released in 1971. In fact, the two songs in question, "I've Been Your Fool" and "Gotta Go," were actually recorded for Al Kooper at Studio One in Atlanta in 1973 as demos for Skynyrd's first MCA / Sounds of the South album, "Pronounced Lehn-nerd Skin-nerd," a year after the Muscle Shoals album was already in the can. So maybe CD-Heaven should to get his own "awkward eyes" and facts checked next time before posting bogus, mis-leading information.Free Music Review: A Must-Have For Any Skynyrd Fan!
Hit: 5 Stars
What can I say about this album that hasn't already been said? It's just a great album of songs. We get early versions of some of Skynyrd's classics as well as some great songs that didn't make it onto any of the other albums.
The main gems on this album are:
1. "Gimme Three Steps" (this version is WAY better than the one on Pronounced)
2. "Wino" and "Lend A Helping Hand" (these two are classics in my opinion; why they didn't make it onto one of the other albums I will never know)
3. "Comin' Home" (this song appears on some of the compilation albums, but it's too obvious that Ronnie's voice is dubbed; this version just sounds more natural)
A few other tunes that don't quite measure up to those 4 but are rather good are: "Was I Right Or Wrong", "Preacher's Daughter", "And Down South Jukin'".
If you don't own this album, stop reading these reviews and GO BUY IT!
Free Music Review: Woo-ee Louise!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I didn't even know this existed. Maybe I was busy with other things in life, like bowling, or attempting to regain a foothold on life, but I found out about this recently, and this is incredible.I loved "First... and Last" when it came out, and here are nine additional tracks.
One of my favorites is the last track, which is released here for the first time. It's the Rickey Medlocke sung "Ain't too Proud to Pray."
This is too cool, and too genuine, for contemporary Christian music. This one rings true, and I play it again and again. I don't do that with Guardian CD's.
This truly is a fine, fine display of classic talent. Long live the South. (This is enough to make me a believer).
Free Music Review: I Knew
Hit: 5 Stars
I've known about this album for years.I'm a true and avid Skynyrd fan.
Doesn't suprise me that MCA had them pull it and save the music for later albums.
I had a vinyl copy back in the early '70's and had long since been lost.
Just to see Ricky Medlock (Blackfoot frontman)on the cover brought me back YEARS! Medlock by the way was Skynyrds original drummer.
It wasn't till a friend who leads in a Skynyrd Tribute band came up to me with the cassette he bought and told me it had been rereleased.
I urge EVERYONE who enjoys even a little Skynyrd to buy this cd. (you can't get it all on kazaa, i tried) :)
This album above all is the true Skynyrd music w/o corporate backing.
peace.