Friday, March 14, 2008
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Street Survivors"
Oh, how I love Skynyrd. I have a dream of playing guitar for a Skynyrd cover band. I shout "play some Skynyrd" at concerts. It's a bit ridiculous. I bought this album 10 years or so ago and I still listen to it pretty regularly as it is on my mp3 player. I wouldn't have guessed, but it turns out that it's great music to jog to. "Street Survivors" doesn't have three of their best known songs, those being "Gimme Three Steps", "Sweet Home Alabama", and "Free Bird" but it does have plenty of fantastic songs like "What's Your Name", a song about having a girl in every town your tour goes through, and "I Never Dreamed", a tune about a guy who get's blindsided when the love of his life leaves. It's a short album at only 8 tracks, but the first 6 of those are some great tunes that I really like. This is an album I can throw in, listen to straight through and be glad I heard it all. The guitar playing is great, Ronnie Van Zant is a stellar singer, and I love the horns peppered throughout. If you are at all a fan of old school gritty rock, this is worth checking out on Amazon.
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