Track Lists

Lynyrd Skynyrd Gold

The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd - review

The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd is very well put together collection of their best music. Smartly it includes both the studio and live versions of "Free Bird." It also has six of the tracks from Street Survivors. It is missing some songs that I really like such as "Honky Tonk Night Time Man," "Searching," and "The Needle and the Spoon," and others. However, this is a fine collection of songs. The only way to improve this is to purchase the three-disc Box Set. 

Note - In 2006, Geffen Records released Lynyrd Skynyrd Gold that is a reissue of The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd. I haven't been able to compare the sound between the two, but the Gold series does a solid job with sound, liner notes, and price.

Disc 1

1. Sweet Home Alabama (King / Rossington / Van Zant)
2. I Ain't the One (Rossington / Van Zant)
3. Was I Right or Wrong (Rossington / Van Zant)
4. Gimme Three Steps (Collins / Van Zant)
5. Workin' for MCA (King / Van Zant)
6. Simple Man (Rossington / Van Zant)
7. Swamp Music (King / Van Zant)
8. The Ballad of Curtis Loew (Collins / Van Zant)
9. Saturday Night Special (King / Van Zant)
10. Mr. Banker (King/Rossington / Van Zant)
11. Comin' Home (Collins / Van Zant) - D
12. Call Me the Breeze (Cale)
13. Free Bird (Collins / Van Zant)

Disc 2

1. What's Your Name? (Rossington / Van Zant)
2. Whiskey Rock-A-Roller  (King / Powell / Van Zant) - L 
3. Tuesday's Gone (Collins / Van Zant)
4. Double Trouble (Collins / Van Zant)
5. I Know a Little (Gaines)
6. Four Walls of Raiford (Carlisi / Van Zant)
7. I Never Dreamed (Gaines / Van Zant)
8. Gimme Back My Bullets (Rossington / Van Zant) - L
9. You Got That Right (Gaines / Van Zant)
10. All I Can Do Is Write About It (Collins / Van Zant) (Acoustic Version)
11. That Smell (Collins/Van Zant)
12. Free Bird (Collins / Van Zant) - L

D - Demo
L - Live