With a catalog of over 60 albums and sales beyond 30 million, Lynyrd Skynyrd remains a cultural icon that appeals to all generations, and God & Guns is a fitting addition to the canon. But that would not be the way of this Rock & Roll Hall of Fame powerhouse. With the passing of Powell and Evans, “a lot of people probably expected us to say enough is enough,” admits Medlocke. Since then, the band tragically lost Allen Collins, Leon Wilkeson and Hughie Thomasson, yet they rock on. Recorded in Nashville in 2008-2009, the project was interrupted-but, tellingly, not ended-by the deaths of founding member/keyboardist Billy Powell and longtime bassist Ean Evans earlier this year.ĭriven by core members Gary Rossington (guitar), Johnny Van Zant (vocals) and Rickey Medlocke (guitar), along with longtime drummer Michael Cartellone, Lynyrd Skynyrd have recorded an album (“under duress, as usual,” according to Van Zant) that very much lives up to the legacy begun some 35 years ago in Jacksonville, Florida, and halted for a decade by the 1977 plane crash that killed three band members, including Ronnie Van Zant and Steve Gaines. With their first set of new studio material since 2003’s Vicious Cycle, legendary rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd returns with God & Guns, due out September 29 on Loud & Proud/Roadrunner Records. About survival of spirit unbowed, uniquely American, stubbornly resolute. Recorded at Studio One, Doraville, Georgia, March and April 1973Įngineered by Bob 'Tub' Langford, Rodney Mills, Danny Turbevilleīeyond the tragedy, the history, the raging guitars and the killer songs, ultimately, Lynyrd Skynyrd is about an indomitable will. Roosevelt Cook, mandolin, Mellotron, organ, background vocals The nine-minute epic starts with organ and slide and builds in a similar way, but at 4:44 it changes into fifth gear and the air guitars are out in force.
Tracks such as 'I Ain't The One,' 'Simple Man,' and 'Tuesday's Gone' are outstanding, the one to wait for is 'Free Bird,' a song that rivals 'Stairway To Heaven' for hard rock credibility. Aside from spawning countless tomes of bad poetry by pockmarked 15-year-olds everywhere with 'Free Bird,' they demonstrated a mastery of the rock ballad with the time-tested 'Tuesday's Gone,' another highlight of this notable first offering. And, of course, no other band can lay claim to the most-requested song in the history of rock music, the anthemic 'Free Bird,' the focal point of this, their 1973 debut. 38 Special couldn't come close to matching the lyrical talent and natural-born rock-and-boogie abilities of Skynyrd. Where the Allman Brothers and Marshall Tucker had a more restrained, accomplished rock sound, Florida's Lynyrd Skynyrd took another approach, evoking images of whiskey, Confederate flags, hard luck, and greasy dive bars in their music. Info for Pronounced Leh-Nerd-Skin-Nerd (Remastered)
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