Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street Survivors (Dlx)
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Free Music Review: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition "Street Survivors"
Hit: 5 Stars
It's hard to believe I'm writing a review of a record that originally was released in 1977 (my senior year of high school)... but this 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition takes a great record and makes it better. Disc 1 is a remastered version of the original record while disc 2 is the original version of the record, recorded at Criteria Studios and produced by Tom Dowd. Disc 2 finishes up with 5 songs recorded live in California in August 1977. The Criteria Studios material is nice to hear and some of the versions sound quite different than the ones released on the original Street Survivors. My only complaint is that the quality of the recordings for the live material is pretty poor. Everything else sounds great, but the live tracks sound like mediocre quality bootleg recordings.Free Music Review: Interesting album
Hit: 5 Stars
First of all, I agree with the guy who said that the live tracks are bootleg quality at best. I bought this album out of sheer curiosity and loyalty to the Skynyrd catalog. I would add that it seems disconcerting that MCA/Universal would revoke the fire cover out of respect for the families of Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, and Dean Kilpatrick, then re-release the cover all these years later. Ronnie's and Steve's families are still alive, and I would almost like to get their take on this situation.Free Music Review: A Must-Have CD for certain
Hit: 5 Stars
Street Survivors is arguably their best CD featuring the incredible Steve Gains (who has co-lead vocals on You Got That Right). Throw in the 2nd CD (aka the "Deluxe" Part) and not only do you get original versions of most of those songs but you get some live versions as well plus a bonus track that I don't believe was ever released before. Great studio work plus, there is nothing better than Live Skynyrd. Like I said, a must-have CD........and worth the extra $ IMHO.Free Music Review: Street Survivors Lynyrd Skynyrd Limited Edition
Hit: 5 Stars
A fantastic album, that has been restored to its maximum, superb sound and lyrics. An album worth waiting for.Free Music Review: +1/2 -- Skynyrd's swan-song with terrific bonuses
Hit: 4 Stars
The fifth and final studio album of Lynyrd Skynyrd's original incarnation has always lived in the shadow of the 1977 plane crash that followed just three days after the LP's release. The band's fans couldn't help but refract the album through the prism of vocalist/songwriter Ronnie Van Zant's death, adding layers of meaning that weren't originally written into these songs. Thirty-one years later, the band's demise still hovers over this swan-song, but at the same time, the album's vitality and the band's then-bright future still shines through. Geffen's two-disc deluxe reissue augments the album's original eight tracks with a wealth of bonuses, including previously unreleased original versions of songs that were completely re-recorded for the commercial release, and five live tracks from the band's last-known concert recording, taped just two months before the plane crash.
Having become a top concert draw throughout the mid-70s, the band found a surprising amount of time to record this album. They produced a finished version with Tom Dowd in Florida, ditched the tapes and relocated to the Atlanta studio where they'd waxed "Free Bird." They re-recorded the bulk of the album from scratch, dropped a few songs and added a few others to create the final release. Though most of the titles remained the same between the two sessions, the energy and sound are quite different. The band is more pumped up on their self-produced recordings, and where Dowd stripped things down, the band added layers, such as the horn chart on "What's Your Name." Their intuition was right, and though some fans didn't appreciate Skynyrd evolving away from their rougher roots, Van Zant's songs easily took the extra polish.
Van Zant's lyrics continued to mine the autobiographical clarity and detail he'd shown on earlier albums, and the addition of guitarist Steve Gaines added country flavor to the original "I Know a Little" and a cover of Merle Haggard's "Honky Tonk Night Time Man." Still, the band could always play it gritty, as the Collins/Van Zant "That Smell" so aptly showed. The earlier version of the song, taken a hair slower and with Van Zant's vocal more isolated and dry, is even more harrowing (a second early version, included here, extends the song to 7:30 with a lengthy guitar jam). The overall hallmark of "Street Survivors" is the confident sound of a band at the top of their game.
Fans will relish the opportunity to hear the earlier unreleased version of the album, including a pair of songs ("Georgia Peaches" and "Sweet Little Missy") that were dropped from the final track list. An additional highlight presented here is Van Zant's rewrite of "Honky Tonk Night Time Man," as the autobiographical "Jacksonville Kid." The five live tracks are good performances of historical interest, but only limited (and mono) audio quality. This is a welcome upgrade to the original CD issue. 4-1/2 stars, if allowed fractional ratings. [©2008 hyperbolium dot com]