Live Albums By Lynyrd Skynyrd

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Live Albums By Lynyrd Skynyrd

Lynyrd Skynyrd have been one of the great southern rock bans since the 1970s.

A plane crash cost the lives their lead singer and songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, his singer Cassie Gaines who was a backing singer and members of their support team on October 20, 1977. Other members of the band were seriously injured.

Some of the surviving members formed The Rossington-Collins Band and toured and recorded two albums.

In 1987, Lynyrd Skynyrd reunited when five former members Gary Rossington, Billy Powell, Leon Wilkeson, Artimus Pyle, and Ed King joined with Ronnie Van Zant’s younger brother, Johnny.

It’s useful to see the timing of the studio albums before looking in detail at the live albums.

Studio Albums by Lynyrd Skynyrd

1973 – (Pronounced ‘Lĕh-‘nérd ‘Skin-‘nérd)
1974 – Second Helping
1975 – Nuthin’ Fancy
1976 – Gimme Back My Bullets
1977 – Street Survivors
1991 – Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991
1993 – The Last Rebel
1994 – Endangered Species
1997 – Twenty 97
1999 – Edge of Forever
2000 – Christmas Time Again
2003 – Vicious Cycle
2009 – God & Guns
2012 – Last of a Dyin’ Breed

As a singles band, Lynyrd Skynyrd haven’t had the impact on the main pop chart as you might expect in the USA.
Their entries into the top 20 are:

1974 Sweet Home Alabama #8
1974 Freebird #19
1977 What’s Your Name? #13

They haven’t had top 20 hits in the UK.

Live Albums by Lynyrd Skynyrd

One More From The Road used to be the Lynyrd Skynyrd live album you had to buy because it caught the band in their prime but the situation has got muddied by a couple of earlier releases that have come out of the vaults.

Live Albums by Lynyrd Skynyrd

The year is the date of the live recordings and not the year the live album was released.

1975 – Live At The Cardiff Capitol Theater 1975
1976 – Authorized Bootleg: Live In Winterland, San Francisco, CA, 3/07/76
1976 – One More from the Road
1976 & 1977 Freebird The Movie (a live concert recording)
1987 – Southern by the Grace of God
1995 – Southern Knights
1997 – Lyve from Steel Town
2004 – Lyve: The Vicious Cycle Tour
2007 – Live from Freedom Hall

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One More From The Road is the first live album from the original Lynyrd Skynyrd band and was recorded in 1976.

This is both a thrilling and very sad live album.

It was recorded in July 1976, fifteen months before the plane crash that killed lead singer/songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, as well as guitar player Steve Gaines and his sister, backing singer Cassie Gaines.

You can’t help listening to this classic driving rock and wondering what Lynyrd Skynyrd led by Ronnie Van Zant would have produced in the future.

Lynyrd Skynyrd One More From The Road

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