LYNYRD SKYNYRD STREET SURVIVORS
Sadly, STREET SURVIVORS would prove to be the final Lynryd Skynyrd album of the Ronnie Van Zant-era. Only three days after this, the band's fifth studio album (sixth overall) was released in 1977, the band boarded the tragic plane flight that killed singer Ronnie Van Zant and new members guitarist Steve Gaines and background vocalist Cassie Gaines.
The fact that STREET SURVIVORS was one of Skynyrd's best albums only intensified the tragedy--it appeared as though the band was peaking artistically. "What's Your Name" caught the band at its most fun and playful, the grim "That Smell" warned against the dangers of drug and alcohol addiction, and "I Know A Little" showed off its country roots.
Lynyrd Skynyrd's fifth studio release should have been the band's well-deserved entrée into the upper echelons of international rock & roll stardom. Fate would intervene and for some very non-musical reasons, Lynyrd Skynyrd's best-selling release also became the band's final studio recording.
Skynyrd: Ronnie Van Zant (vocals); Steve Gaines (guitar, background vocals); Allen Collins, Gary Rossington (guitar); Billy Powell (keyboards); Leon Wilkeson (bass); Artimus Pyle (drums).
1. What's Your Name 3:33
2. That Smell 5:48
3. One More Time 5:02
4. I Know A Little 3:28
5. You Got That Right 3:46
6. I Never Dreamed 5:22
7. Honky Tonk Night Time Man 4:04
8. Ain't No Good Life 4:43
9. Georgia Peaches 3:15
10. Sweet Little Missy 5:10
11. You Got That Right 3:26
12. I Never Dreamed 4:54
13. Jacksonville Kid 4:03
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