Disc 11. What's Your Name 2. That Smell 3. One More Time 4. I Know a Little 5. You Got That Right 6. I Never Dreamed 7. Honky Tonk Night Time Man 8. Ain't No Good Life Disc 21. What's Your Name - (previously unreleased) 2. That Smell - (previously unreleased) 3. You Got That Right - (previously unreleased) 4. I Never Dreamed - (previously unreleased) 5. Georgia Peaches 6. Sweet Little Missy - (previously unreleased) 7. Sweet Little Missy - (previously unreleased) 8. Ain't No Good Life - (previously unreleased, Complete Original Version) 9. That Smell - (previously unreleased) 10. Jacksonville Kid (A.K.A. Honky Tonk Night Time Man) - (Demo, Live In California August 1977) 11. You Got That Right - (previously unreleased, live) 12. That Smell - (previously unreleased, live) 13. Ain't No Good Life - (previously unreleased, live) 14. What's Your Name - (previously unreleased, live) 15. Gimme Three Steps - (previously unreleased, live)
Label: Geffen Records (USA) Release Date: 03/04/2008 Original Release Date: 1977 Recording Mode: Stereo Recording Type: Studio Distributor: Universal Distribution
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Ronnie Van Zant (vocals); Steve Gaines (guitar, background vocals); Allen Collins, Gary Rossington (guitar); Billy Powell (keyboards); Leon Wilkeson (bass); Artimus Pyle (drums). Producers: Tom Dowd, Jimmy Johnson, Tim Smith. Reissue producer: Ron O'Brien. Recorded at Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida and Studio One, Doraville, Georgia. Includes liner notes by Ron O'Brien. Digitally remastered by Doug Schwartz (Mulholland Music, Hollywood, California). 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.
Rolling Stone (p.60) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[B]est of all is the group's raucously virtuosic take on Merle Haggard's 'Honky Tonk Night Time Man,' which overflows with gorgeous country riffs that sound like pure chicken-fried joy." Q (May 2002, p.132) - 4 out of 5 stars - "...[Skynyrd at] their stadium-filling peak....STREET SURVIVOR suggested something of a renaissance....it wasn't to last..." Mojo (Publisher) (p.121) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he music here -- quintessentially Southern rock'n'roll -- carries a life-affirming spirit, typified by the honky-tonk groupie anthem 'What's Your Name' and the sweetly soulful 'I Never Dreamed'..." Blender (Magazine) (p.80) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Skynyrd stayed closer to the common dirt of the everyday, rooting their music in blues, soul and outlaw country and composing every note of their three guitarists' solos with blue-collar labor."
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