Lynyrd Skynyrd's All
Time Greatest Hits has more than 75 minutes of great music. Of
their two most popular songs "Sweet Home Alabama," and
"Free Bird," they had choices to select either the studio
or live version. My view is that they made the great choices in both
cases. While the live version of "Sweet Home Alabama" is
equally as good, the studio version that is included is a classic.
They included the live version of "Free Bird"; it is much
better than it's studio counterpart. The song is improved in all
aspects, the opening ballad, the jam, and the song conclusion.
Another good decision in the song selection from this fourteen song
disc is to include four tracks from their best album, Street
Survivors, a good ratio.
1.
Sweet Home Alabama (King /Rossington / Van Zant) - 4:45
2. Gimme Three Steps (Collins / Van Zant) - 4:31
3. Simple Man (Rossington / Van Zant) - 5:58
4. Saturday Night Special (King / VanZ ant) - 5:11
5. Swamp Music (King / Van Zant) - 3:32
6. The Ballad of Curtis Loew (Collins / Van Zant) - 4:52
7. Call Me the Breeze (Cale) - 5:09
8. Comin' Home (Collins / Van Zant) - 5:32
9. Gimme Back My Bullets (Rossington / Van Zant) - 3:30
10. What's Your Name? (Rossington / Van Zant) - 3:33
11. You Got That Right (Gaines / Van Zant) - 3:47
12. All I Can Do Is Write About It (Collins / Van Zant) - 4:24
(Acoustic)
13. That Smell (Collins / Van Zant) - 5:49
14. Free Bird (Collins / Van Zant) - 14:23 (live)
Ronnie
Van Zant - Vocals
Gary
Rossington - Guitar
Allen Collins - Guitar
Ed King - Guitar, B. vocals
Steve Gaines - Guitar, vocals
Bill Powell - Piano
Leon Wilkeson - Bass, B. vocals
Artimus Pyle - Drums
Bob Burns - Drums
Merry Clayton - B. vocals
Cassie Gaines - B. vocals
Leslie Hawkins - B. vocals
Jo Jo Billingsley - Vocals
The above are the main members and instruments. As this is a
compilation that covers many different line-ups, it is an abbreviated
list.
