Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lynyrd Skynyrd (pronounced /ˌlɛnərd ˈskɪnərd/ LEN-ərd-SKIN-ərd) is a Southe… Read Full Bio ↴Lynyrd Skynyrd (pronounced /ˌlɛnərd ˈskɪnərd/ LEN-ərd-SKIN-ərd) is a Southern Rock band, formed in Jacksonville, Florida, USA in 1964. The band became prominent in the Southern United States in 1973, and rose to worldwide recognition before three members and one road crew member died in an airplane crash in 1977. The band reformed in 1987 for a reunion tour with lead singer Ronnie Van Zant's younger brother Johnny as the frontman. Lynyrd Skynyrd continues to tour and record. Of its original members, only Gary Rossington remains with the band as of 2010. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 13, 2006.
History
Early years
In the summer of 1964, teenage friends Ronnie Van Zant, Allen Collins, and Gary Rossington, formed the band "The Noble Five", which then changed in 1965 to "My Backyard", when Larry Junstrom and Bob Burns joined in Jacksonville, Florida. Their early influences included British Invasion bands such as Free, The Yardbirds, The Rolling Stones, and The Beatles, as well as Southern blues and country & western music. In 1968, the group won a local Battle of the Bands contest and the opening slot on several Southeast shows for the California-based psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock.
In 1970, Van Zant sought a new name. "One Percent" and "The Noble Five" were each considered before the group settled on Leonard Skinnerd, a mocking tribute to a physical-education teacher at Robert E. Lee High School, Leonard Skinner, who was notorious for strictly enforcing the school's policy against boys having long hair. The more distinctive spelling was adopted before they released their first album. Despite their high school acrimony, the band developed a friendlier relationship with Skinner in later years, and invited him to introduce them at a concert in the Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum.
In 1970, the band auditioned for Alan Walden, who would later become their manager on the newly formed Hustler's Inc. Walden worked with the band until 1974, when management was turned over to Pete Rudge. The band continued to perform throughout the South in the early 1970s, further developing their hard-driving, blues-rock sound and image, and experimenting with making studio recordings.
During this time, they went through a number of member changes, with Van Zant, Collins and Rossington remaining the only constants. Burns and Junstrom left the band, and were briefly replaced by Rickey Medlocke on drums and Greg Walker on bass. In 1971, with this lineup, they made some recordings at the famous Muscle Shoals studio. By the time they made a second round of Muscle Shoals recordings in 1972, Burns had rejoined the band and Leon Wilkeson had become Larry Junstrom's permanent replacement on bass, with Medlocke and Walker having left to play with the southern rock band Blackfoot. Around this time, the band occasionally played shows with both Burns and Medlocke participating, utilizing a dual-drummer approach similar to that of The Allman Brothers. Also in 1972, roadie Billy Powell became the keyboardist for the band.
Peak years (1973–1977)
In 1972 the band was discovered by musician, songwriter, and producer Al Kooper of Blood, Sweat, and Tears, who had attended one of their shows at a club in Atlanta. They changed the spelling of their name to "Lynyrd Skynyrd", (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd) and Kooper signed them to MCA Records, producing their first album (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd). Leon Wilkeson left just before the band was to record the album (Wilkeson rejoined the band shortly thereafter at Van Zant's invitation and is pictured on the album cover).[citation needed] Strawberry Alarm Clock guitarist Ed King joined the band and played Wilkeson's parts on the album, along with some guitar. King switched to guitar after the album's release, allowing the band to replicate the three-guitar mix used in the studio. Released January 1, 1973, the album featured the hit song "Free Bird", which received national airplay, eventually reaching #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, and is still considered a rock and roll anthem today.
Lynyrd Skynyrd's fan base continued to grow rapidly throughout 1973, largely due to their opening slot on The Who's Quadrophenia tour in the United States. On their 1974 follow-up, Second Helping, the band successfully avoided sophomore slump, with King, Collins and Rossington all collaborating with Van Zant on the songwriting. The album was the band's breakthrough hit, and featured their most popular single, "Sweet Home Alabama" (#8 on the charts in August 1974), a response to Neil Young's "Alabama" and "Southern Man." (Young and Van Zant were not rivals, but fans of each other's music and good friends; Young even wrote the song "Powderfinger" for the band, but they never recorded it. Van Zant, meanwhile, can be seen on the cover of Street Survivors wearing a Neil Young t-shirt.) The album reached #12 in 1974, eventually going multi-platinum. In July of that year, Lynyrd Skynyrd was one of the headline acts at The Ozark Music Festival at the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Sedalia, Missouri.
In January, 1975, Burns left the band and was replaced by Kentucky native Artimus Pyle on drums. Lynyrd Skynyrd's third album, Nuthin' Fancy, was released the same year. The album had lower sales than its predecessor, and Kooper was eventually fired. Midway through the tour, Ed King left the band, citing tour exhaustion. In January 1976, backup singers Leslie Hawkins, Cassie Gaines and JoJo Billingsley (collectively known as The Honkettes) were added to the band, although they were not considered as official members. Lynyrd Skynyrd's fourth album Gimme Back My Bullets was released in the new year, but did not achieve the same success as the previous two albums. Van Zant and Collins both felt that the band was seriously missing the three-guitar attack that had been one of its early hallmarks. Although Skynyrd auditioned several guitarists, including such high-profile names as Leslie West, the solution was closer than they realized.
Soon after joining Skynyrd, Cassie Gaines began touting the guitar and songwriting prowess of her younger brother, Steve. The junior Gaines, who led his own band, Crawdad (which occasionally would perform Skynyrd's "Saturday Night Special" in their set), was invited to audition onstage with Skynyrd at a concert in Kansas City on May 11, 1976. Liking what they heard, the group also jammed informally with the Oklahoma native several times, then invited him into the group in June. With Gaines on board, the newly-reconstituted band recorded the double-live album One More From the Road at the Fox Theatre (Atlanta, Georgia) in Atlanta, and performed at the Knebworth festival, which also featured The Rolling Stones.
Both Collins and Rossington had serious car accidents over Labor Day weekend in 1976 which slowed the recording of the follow-up album and forced the band to cancel some concert dates. Rossington's accident inspired the ominous "That Smell" - a cautionary tale about drug abuse that was clearly aimed towards him and at least one other band member. Rossington has admitted repeatedly that he's the "Prince Charming" of the song who crashed his car into an oak tree while drunk and stoned on Quaaludes. Van Zant, at least, was making a serious attempt to clean up his act and curtail the cycle of boozed-up brawling that was part of Skynyrd's reputation.
1977's Street Survivors turned out to be a showcase for guitarist/vocalist Steve Gaines, who had joined the band just a year earlier and was making his studio debut with them. Publicly and privately, Ronnie Van Zant marveled at the multiple talents of Skynyrd's newest member, claiming that the band would "all be in his shadow one day." Gaines' contributions included his co-lead vocal with Van Zant on the co-written "You Got That Right" and the rousing guitar boogie "I Know A Little" which he had written before he joined Skynyrd. So confident was Skynyrd's leader of Gaines' abilities that the album (and some concerts) featured Gaines delivering his self-penned bluesy "Ain't No Good Life" - the only song in the pre-crash Skynyrd catalog to feature a lead vocalist other than Ronnie Van Zant. The album also included the hit singles "What's Your Name" and "That Smell". The band was poised for their biggest tour yet, including fulfilling Van Zant's lifelong dream of headlining New York's Madison Square Garden.
Plane crash (1977)
On Thursday, October 20, 1977, just three days after the release of Street Survivors, and five shows into their most successful headlining tour to date, Lynyrd Skynyrd's chartered Convair 240 ran out of fuel near the end of their flight from Greenville, South Carolina, where they had just performed at the Greenville Memorial Auditorium, to LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Though the pilots attempted an emergency landing on a small airstrip, the plane crashed in a forest in Gillsburg, Mississippi. Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary and co-pilot William Gray were all killed on impact; the other bandmembers suffered serious injuries.
Following the crash and the ensuing press, Street Survivors became the band's second platinum album and reached #5 on the U.S. album chart. The single "What's Your Name" reached #13 on the single airplay charts in January 1978.
The original cover sleeve for Street Survivors had featured a photograph of the band, particularly Steve Gaines, engulfed in flames. Out of respect for the deceased (and at the request of Teresa Gaines, Steve's widow), MCA Records withdrew the original cover and replaced it with a similar image of the band against a simple black background. Thirty years later, for the deluxe CD version of Street Survivors, the original "flames" cover was restored.
Lynyrd Skynyrd disbanded after the tragedy, reuniting just once to perform an instrumental version of "Free Bird" at Charlie Daniels' Volunteer Jam in January 1979. Collins, Rossington, Powell and Pyle performed the song with Charlie Daniels and members of his band. Leon Wilkeson, who was still undergoing physical therapy for his badly broken left arm, was in attendance, along with Judy Van Zant, Teresa Gaines, JoJo Billingsley and Leslie Hawkins.
Hiatus (1977–1987)
Rossington, Collins, Wilkeson and Powell formed The Rossington-Collins Band, which released two albums between 1980 and 1982. Deliberately avoiding comparisons with Ronnie Van Zant as well as suggestions that this band was Lynyrd Skynyrd reborn, Rossington and Collins chose a woman, Dale Krantz, as lead vocalist. However, as an acknowledgment of their past, the band's concert encore would always be an instrumental version of "Free Bird". Rossington and Collins eventually had a falling out over the affections of Dale Krantz, whom Rossington married and with whom he formed the Rossington Band, which released two albums in the late 1980s and opened for the Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute Tour in 1987-1988.
The other former members of Lynyrd Skynyrd continued to make music during the hiatus era.Leon Wilkeson on bass and Billy Powellon keyboards played in a Christian Rock band named Vision, touring with established Christian rocker Mylon LeFevre (who, like Skynyrd, had once opened for The Who). During Vision concerts, Powell's trademark keyboard talent was often spotlighted and he spoke about his conversion to Christianity after the near-fatal plane crash. Pyle formed The Artimus Pyle Band in 1982, which occasionally featured former Honkettes JoJo Billingsley and Leslie Hawkins.
In 1980 Allen Collins' wife Kathy died of a massive hemorrhage while miscarrying their third child. He formed the Allen Collins Band in 1983 from the remnants of the Rossington-Collins Band, releasing one tepidly-received album, but many around him believed that the guitarist's heart just wasn't in it anymore. Most point to his wife's death as the moment that Collins' life began to spin out of control; he spent several years bingeing on drugs and alcohol. In 1986 Collins crashed his car while driving drunk near his home in Jacksonville, killing his girlfriend and leaving him permanently paralyzed from the chest down. Collins eventually pled no contest to DUI manslaughter, but was not given a prison sentence since his injuries made it obvious that he would never drive or be a danger to society again.
Return (1987–present)
In 1987, Lynyrd Skynyrd reunited for a full-scale tour with five major members of the post-crash band: crash survivors Gary Rossington, Billy Powell, Leon Wilkeson and Artimus Pyle, along with guitarist Ed King, who had left the band two years before the crash. Ronnie Van Zant's younger brother, Johnny, took over as the new lead singer and primary songwriter. Due to Collins' paralysis from the 1986 car accident, he was only able to participate as the musical director, choosing Randall Hall, his former bandmate in the Allen Collins Band, as his stand-in. As part of his plea deal, Collins would be wheeled out onstage each night to explain to the audience why he could no longer perform (usually before the performance of "That Smell", which had been partially directed at him). Collins was stricken with pneumonia in 1989 and died on January 23, 1990.
The reunited band was meant to be a one-time tribute to the original lineup, captured on the double-live album Southern By The Grace Of God/Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute Tour - 1987. The fact that the band chose to continue after the 1987 tribute tour caused legal problems for the survivors, as Judy Van Zant Jenness and Teresa Gaines Rapp (widows of Ronnie and Steve, respectively) sued the others for violating an agreement made shortly after the plane crash, stating that they would not "exploit" the Skynyrd name for profit. As part of the settlement, Jenness and Rapp collect nearly 30% of the band's touring revenues (representing the shares their husbands would have earned had they lived), and hold a proviso which forces any band touring as "Lynyrd Skynyrd" to include at least two from among Rossington, Collins, Powell, Pyle, Wilkeson and King. Apparently, that proviso is not being enforced, seeing that Rossington is now the sole member of that group left in Lynyrd Skynyrd, as King was not allowed to remain in the band after missing a tour unable to tour due to heart problems, Pyle is on the outs with Rossington and Johnny Van Zant, and the others are now dead. Pyle has insisted in public appearances that "Ronnie Van Zandt IS Lynyrd Skynyrd", and wishes nothing to do with the current makeup of the band bearing that name. Two other founding members of the band remain alive, original drummer Bob Burns and bassist Larry Junstrom Bob Burns, but they have not participated in the post-crash band.
The reconstituted Lynyrd Skynyrd has gone through a large number of lineup changes and continues to record and tour today. One by one, the members of the pre-crash band have left, been forced out, or have passed away. Artimus Pyle left the band in 1991 and his place has been taken by a variety of drummers since, with Michael Cartellone finally becoming his permanent replacement. Randall Hall was replaced by Mike Estes in 1993. Ed King had to take a break from touring in 1996. In his absence, he was replaced by Hughie Thomasson. King has stated that his break from the band was to be temporary, but the band did not let him rejoin after he recovered. At the same time, Mike Estes was replaced by Rickey Medlocke, who had briefly played drums with the band in the early 1970's. Leon Wilkeson, Skynyrd's bassist since 1972, was found dead in his hotel room on July 27, 2001; his death was found to be due to emphysema and chronic liver disease. He was replaced in 2001 by Ean Evans. The remaining members released a double album called Thyrty which had songs from the original line up to the present. Lynyrd Skynyrd also released a live DVD of their Vicious Cycle Tour and on June 22, 2004, Lynyrd Skynyrd released the album Lyve: The Vicious Cycle Tour. On December 10, 2004, Lynyrd Skynyrd did a show for CMT, Crossroads, a concert featuring country duo Montgomery Gentry and other genres of music. In the beginning of 2005 Hughie Thomasson left the band to reform his disbanded Southern Rock band Outlaws. Thomasson died in his sleep on September 9, 2007 of an apparent heart attack in his home in Brooksville, Florida. He was 55 years old.
On February 5, 2005, Lynyrd Skynyrd did a Super Bowl party back in Jacksonville with special guests 3 Doors Down, Jo Dee Messina, Charlie Daniels and Ronnie and Johnny Van Zant's brother Donnie Van Zant of 38 Special. On February 13 of that year Lynyrd Skynyrd did a tribute to Southern Rock on the Grammy Awards with Gretchen Wilson, Tim McGraw, Keith Urban and Dickey Betts. On May 10, 2005, Johnny and Donnie Van Zant released a country album called Get Right with the Man which featured the hit single "Help Somebody". In the summer of 2005, lead singer Johnny Van Zant had to have surgery on his vocal cord to have a polyp removed. He was told not to sing for three months. On September 10, 2005, Lynyrd Skynyrd performed without Johnny Van Zant at the Music Relief Concert for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, with Kid Rock standing in for Johnny. In December 2005, Johnny Van Zant returned to sing for Lynyrd Skynyrd. The band performed live at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky, as a part of their 2007 tour. The concert was recorded in high definition for HDNet and premiered on December 1, 2007.
The band in 2008
Mark "Sparky" Matejka, formerly of the country music band Hot Apple Pie, joined Lynyrd Skynyrd in 2006 as Thomasson's replacement. On November 2, 2007, the band performed at Gator Growl, the world's largest student-run pep rally, in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium - also known as "The Swamp." The event's 50,000-person attendance marked the largest crowd that Lynyrd Skynyrd had ever played in front of in the United States, until the July 2008 Bama Jam in Enterprise, Alabama where more than 111,000 people were in attendance.
On January 28, 2009, keyboardist Billy Powell died at age 56 at his home near Jacksonville, Florida. Powell called 911 at 12:55 a.m., complaining of shortness of breath. He had previously missed his doctor's appointment on the day before his death; the appointment was for a checkup on his heart. The EMS responders found Powell unconscious and unresponsive, with the telephone still in his hand. Rescue crews performed CPR, but he was pronounced dead at 1:52 a.m. Although a heart attack was suspected, and it was originally reported that an autopsy was to be performed, none in fact was ever done. Powell's death left Gary Rossington as the sole pre-crash member of the band, unless Rickey Medlocke's brief stint with the band in the early 1970's is counted. On March 17, 2009, it was announced that Skynyrd had signed a worldwide deal with Roadrunner Records, in association with their label, Loud & Proud Records, and released their new album God & Guns on September 29 of that year. They toured Europe and the United States in 2009 with Peter Keys of the 420 Funk Mob on keyboards and Robert Kearns of The Bottle Rockets on bass (in place of Ean Evans, who died of cancer at age 48 on May 6, 2009, at his home in Columbus, Mississippi). Scottish rock band Gun have been confirmed as special guests for the UK leg of Skynyrds tour in 2010.
Leonard Skinner, the physical education teacher who inspired the name Lynyrd Skynyrd passed away on September 21st, 2010
History
Early years
In the summer of 1964, teenage friends Ronnie Van Zant, Allen Collins, and Gary Rossington, formed the band "The Noble Five", which then changed in 1965 to "My Backyard", when Larry Junstrom and Bob Burns joined in Jacksonville, Florida. Their early influences included British Invasion bands such as Free, The Yardbirds, The Rolling Stones, and The Beatles, as well as Southern blues and country & western music. In 1968, the group won a local Battle of the Bands contest and the opening slot on several Southeast shows for the California-based psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock.
In 1970, Van Zant sought a new name. "One Percent" and "The Noble Five" were each considered before the group settled on Leonard Skinnerd, a mocking tribute to a physical-education teacher at Robert E. Lee High School, Leonard Skinner, who was notorious for strictly enforcing the school's policy against boys having long hair. The more distinctive spelling was adopted before they released their first album. Despite their high school acrimony, the band developed a friendlier relationship with Skinner in later years, and invited him to introduce them at a concert in the Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum.
In 1970, the band auditioned for Alan Walden, who would later become their manager on the newly formed Hustler's Inc. Walden worked with the band until 1974, when management was turned over to Pete Rudge. The band continued to perform throughout the South in the early 1970s, further developing their hard-driving, blues-rock sound and image, and experimenting with making studio recordings.
During this time, they went through a number of member changes, with Van Zant, Collins and Rossington remaining the only constants. Burns and Junstrom left the band, and were briefly replaced by Rickey Medlocke on drums and Greg Walker on bass. In 1971, with this lineup, they made some recordings at the famous Muscle Shoals studio. By the time they made a second round of Muscle Shoals recordings in 1972, Burns had rejoined the band and Leon Wilkeson had become Larry Junstrom's permanent replacement on bass, with Medlocke and Walker having left to play with the southern rock band Blackfoot. Around this time, the band occasionally played shows with both Burns and Medlocke participating, utilizing a dual-drummer approach similar to that of The Allman Brothers. Also in 1972, roadie Billy Powell became the keyboardist for the band.
Peak years (1973–1977)
In 1972 the band was discovered by musician, songwriter, and producer Al Kooper of Blood, Sweat, and Tears, who had attended one of their shows at a club in Atlanta. They changed the spelling of their name to "Lynyrd Skynyrd", (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd) and Kooper signed them to MCA Records, producing their first album (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd). Leon Wilkeson left just before the band was to record the album (Wilkeson rejoined the band shortly thereafter at Van Zant's invitation and is pictured on the album cover).[citation needed] Strawberry Alarm Clock guitarist Ed King joined the band and played Wilkeson's parts on the album, along with some guitar. King switched to guitar after the album's release, allowing the band to replicate the three-guitar mix used in the studio. Released January 1, 1973, the album featured the hit song "Free Bird", which received national airplay, eventually reaching #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, and is still considered a rock and roll anthem today.
Lynyrd Skynyrd's fan base continued to grow rapidly throughout 1973, largely due to their opening slot on The Who's Quadrophenia tour in the United States. On their 1974 follow-up, Second Helping, the band successfully avoided sophomore slump, with King, Collins and Rossington all collaborating with Van Zant on the songwriting. The album was the band's breakthrough hit, and featured their most popular single, "Sweet Home Alabama" (#8 on the charts in August 1974), a response to Neil Young's "Alabama" and "Southern Man." (Young and Van Zant were not rivals, but fans of each other's music and good friends; Young even wrote the song "Powderfinger" for the band, but they never recorded it. Van Zant, meanwhile, can be seen on the cover of Street Survivors wearing a Neil Young t-shirt.) The album reached #12 in 1974, eventually going multi-platinum. In July of that year, Lynyrd Skynyrd was one of the headline acts at The Ozark Music Festival at the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Sedalia, Missouri.
In January, 1975, Burns left the band and was replaced by Kentucky native Artimus Pyle on drums. Lynyrd Skynyrd's third album, Nuthin' Fancy, was released the same year. The album had lower sales than its predecessor, and Kooper was eventually fired. Midway through the tour, Ed King left the band, citing tour exhaustion. In January 1976, backup singers Leslie Hawkins, Cassie Gaines and JoJo Billingsley (collectively known as The Honkettes) were added to the band, although they were not considered as official members. Lynyrd Skynyrd's fourth album Gimme Back My Bullets was released in the new year, but did not achieve the same success as the previous two albums. Van Zant and Collins both felt that the band was seriously missing the three-guitar attack that had been one of its early hallmarks. Although Skynyrd auditioned several guitarists, including such high-profile names as Leslie West, the solution was closer than they realized.
Soon after joining Skynyrd, Cassie Gaines began touting the guitar and songwriting prowess of her younger brother, Steve. The junior Gaines, who led his own band, Crawdad (which occasionally would perform Skynyrd's "Saturday Night Special" in their set), was invited to audition onstage with Skynyrd at a concert in Kansas City on May 11, 1976. Liking what they heard, the group also jammed informally with the Oklahoma native several times, then invited him into the group in June. With Gaines on board, the newly-reconstituted band recorded the double-live album One More From the Road at the Fox Theatre (Atlanta, Georgia) in Atlanta, and performed at the Knebworth festival, which also featured The Rolling Stones.
Both Collins and Rossington had serious car accidents over Labor Day weekend in 1976 which slowed the recording of the follow-up album and forced the band to cancel some concert dates. Rossington's accident inspired the ominous "That Smell" - a cautionary tale about drug abuse that was clearly aimed towards him and at least one other band member. Rossington has admitted repeatedly that he's the "Prince Charming" of the song who crashed his car into an oak tree while drunk and stoned on Quaaludes. Van Zant, at least, was making a serious attempt to clean up his act and curtail the cycle of boozed-up brawling that was part of Skynyrd's reputation.
1977's Street Survivors turned out to be a showcase for guitarist/vocalist Steve Gaines, who had joined the band just a year earlier and was making his studio debut with them. Publicly and privately, Ronnie Van Zant marveled at the multiple talents of Skynyrd's newest member, claiming that the band would "all be in his shadow one day." Gaines' contributions included his co-lead vocal with Van Zant on the co-written "You Got That Right" and the rousing guitar boogie "I Know A Little" which he had written before he joined Skynyrd. So confident was Skynyrd's leader of Gaines' abilities that the album (and some concerts) featured Gaines delivering his self-penned bluesy "Ain't No Good Life" - the only song in the pre-crash Skynyrd catalog to feature a lead vocalist other than Ronnie Van Zant. The album also included the hit singles "What's Your Name" and "That Smell". The band was poised for their biggest tour yet, including fulfilling Van Zant's lifelong dream of headlining New York's Madison Square Garden.
Plane crash (1977)
On Thursday, October 20, 1977, just three days after the release of Street Survivors, and five shows into their most successful headlining tour to date, Lynyrd Skynyrd's chartered Convair 240 ran out of fuel near the end of their flight from Greenville, South Carolina, where they had just performed at the Greenville Memorial Auditorium, to LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Though the pilots attempted an emergency landing on a small airstrip, the plane crashed in a forest in Gillsburg, Mississippi. Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary and co-pilot William Gray were all killed on impact; the other bandmembers suffered serious injuries.
Following the crash and the ensuing press, Street Survivors became the band's second platinum album and reached #5 on the U.S. album chart. The single "What's Your Name" reached #13 on the single airplay charts in January 1978.
The original cover sleeve for Street Survivors had featured a photograph of the band, particularly Steve Gaines, engulfed in flames. Out of respect for the deceased (and at the request of Teresa Gaines, Steve's widow), MCA Records withdrew the original cover and replaced it with a similar image of the band against a simple black background. Thirty years later, for the deluxe CD version of Street Survivors, the original "flames" cover was restored.
Lynyrd Skynyrd disbanded after the tragedy, reuniting just once to perform an instrumental version of "Free Bird" at Charlie Daniels' Volunteer Jam in January 1979. Collins, Rossington, Powell and Pyle performed the song with Charlie Daniels and members of his band. Leon Wilkeson, who was still undergoing physical therapy for his badly broken left arm, was in attendance, along with Judy Van Zant, Teresa Gaines, JoJo Billingsley and Leslie Hawkins.
Hiatus (1977–1987)
Rossington, Collins, Wilkeson and Powell formed The Rossington-Collins Band, which released two albums between 1980 and 1982. Deliberately avoiding comparisons with Ronnie Van Zant as well as suggestions that this band was Lynyrd Skynyrd reborn, Rossington and Collins chose a woman, Dale Krantz, as lead vocalist. However, as an acknowledgment of their past, the band's concert encore would always be an instrumental version of "Free Bird". Rossington and Collins eventually had a falling out over the affections of Dale Krantz, whom Rossington married and with whom he formed the Rossington Band, which released two albums in the late 1980s and opened for the Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute Tour in 1987-1988.
The other former members of Lynyrd Skynyrd continued to make music during the hiatus era.Leon Wilkeson on bass and Billy Powellon keyboards played in a Christian Rock band named Vision, touring with established Christian rocker Mylon LeFevre (who, like Skynyrd, had once opened for The Who). During Vision concerts, Powell's trademark keyboard talent was often spotlighted and he spoke about his conversion to Christianity after the near-fatal plane crash. Pyle formed The Artimus Pyle Band in 1982, which occasionally featured former Honkettes JoJo Billingsley and Leslie Hawkins.
In 1980 Allen Collins' wife Kathy died of a massive hemorrhage while miscarrying their third child. He formed the Allen Collins Band in 1983 from the remnants of the Rossington-Collins Band, releasing one tepidly-received album, but many around him believed that the guitarist's heart just wasn't in it anymore. Most point to his wife's death as the moment that Collins' life began to spin out of control; he spent several years bingeing on drugs and alcohol. In 1986 Collins crashed his car while driving drunk near his home in Jacksonville, killing his girlfriend and leaving him permanently paralyzed from the chest down. Collins eventually pled no contest to DUI manslaughter, but was not given a prison sentence since his injuries made it obvious that he would never drive or be a danger to society again.
Return (1987–present)
In 1987, Lynyrd Skynyrd reunited for a full-scale tour with five major members of the post-crash band: crash survivors Gary Rossington, Billy Powell, Leon Wilkeson and Artimus Pyle, along with guitarist Ed King, who had left the band two years before the crash. Ronnie Van Zant's younger brother, Johnny, took over as the new lead singer and primary songwriter. Due to Collins' paralysis from the 1986 car accident, he was only able to participate as the musical director, choosing Randall Hall, his former bandmate in the Allen Collins Band, as his stand-in. As part of his plea deal, Collins would be wheeled out onstage each night to explain to the audience why he could no longer perform (usually before the performance of "That Smell", which had been partially directed at him). Collins was stricken with pneumonia in 1989 and died on January 23, 1990.
The reunited band was meant to be a one-time tribute to the original lineup, captured on the double-live album Southern By The Grace Of God/Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute Tour - 1987. The fact that the band chose to continue after the 1987 tribute tour caused legal problems for the survivors, as Judy Van Zant Jenness and Teresa Gaines Rapp (widows of Ronnie and Steve, respectively) sued the others for violating an agreement made shortly after the plane crash, stating that they would not "exploit" the Skynyrd name for profit. As part of the settlement, Jenness and Rapp collect nearly 30% of the band's touring revenues (representing the shares their husbands would have earned had they lived), and hold a proviso which forces any band touring as "Lynyrd Skynyrd" to include at least two from among Rossington, Collins, Powell, Pyle, Wilkeson and King. Apparently, that proviso is not being enforced, seeing that Rossington is now the sole member of that group left in Lynyrd Skynyrd, as King was not allowed to remain in the band after missing a tour unable to tour due to heart problems, Pyle is on the outs with Rossington and Johnny Van Zant, and the others are now dead. Pyle has insisted in public appearances that "Ronnie Van Zandt IS Lynyrd Skynyrd", and wishes nothing to do with the current makeup of the band bearing that name. Two other founding members of the band remain alive, original drummer Bob Burns and bassist Larry Junstrom Bob Burns, but they have not participated in the post-crash band.
The reconstituted Lynyrd Skynyrd has gone through a large number of lineup changes and continues to record and tour today. One by one, the members of the pre-crash band have left, been forced out, or have passed away. Artimus Pyle left the band in 1991 and his place has been taken by a variety of drummers since, with Michael Cartellone finally becoming his permanent replacement. Randall Hall was replaced by Mike Estes in 1993. Ed King had to take a break from touring in 1996. In his absence, he was replaced by Hughie Thomasson. King has stated that his break from the band was to be temporary, but the band did not let him rejoin after he recovered. At the same time, Mike Estes was replaced by Rickey Medlocke, who had briefly played drums with the band in the early 1970's. Leon Wilkeson, Skynyrd's bassist since 1972, was found dead in his hotel room on July 27, 2001; his death was found to be due to emphysema and chronic liver disease. He was replaced in 2001 by Ean Evans. The remaining members released a double album called Thyrty which had songs from the original line up to the present. Lynyrd Skynyrd also released a live DVD of their Vicious Cycle Tour and on June 22, 2004, Lynyrd Skynyrd released the album Lyve: The Vicious Cycle Tour. On December 10, 2004, Lynyrd Skynyrd did a show for CMT, Crossroads, a concert featuring country duo Montgomery Gentry and other genres of music. In the beginning of 2005 Hughie Thomasson left the band to reform his disbanded Southern Rock band Outlaws. Thomasson died in his sleep on September 9, 2007 of an apparent heart attack in his home in Brooksville, Florida. He was 55 years old.
On February 5, 2005, Lynyrd Skynyrd did a Super Bowl party back in Jacksonville with special guests 3 Doors Down, Jo Dee Messina, Charlie Daniels and Ronnie and Johnny Van Zant's brother Donnie Van Zant of 38 Special. On February 13 of that year Lynyrd Skynyrd did a tribute to Southern Rock on the Grammy Awards with Gretchen Wilson, Tim McGraw, Keith Urban and Dickey Betts. On May 10, 2005, Johnny and Donnie Van Zant released a country album called Get Right with the Man which featured the hit single "Help Somebody". In the summer of 2005, lead singer Johnny Van Zant had to have surgery on his vocal cord to have a polyp removed. He was told not to sing for three months. On September 10, 2005, Lynyrd Skynyrd performed without Johnny Van Zant at the Music Relief Concert for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, with Kid Rock standing in for Johnny. In December 2005, Johnny Van Zant returned to sing for Lynyrd Skynyrd. The band performed live at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky, as a part of their 2007 tour. The concert was recorded in high definition for HDNet and premiered on December 1, 2007.
The band in 2008
Mark "Sparky" Matejka, formerly of the country music band Hot Apple Pie, joined Lynyrd Skynyrd in 2006 as Thomasson's replacement. On November 2, 2007, the band performed at Gator Growl, the world's largest student-run pep rally, in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium - also known as "The Swamp." The event's 50,000-person attendance marked the largest crowd that Lynyrd Skynyrd had ever played in front of in the United States, until the July 2008 Bama Jam in Enterprise, Alabama where more than 111,000 people were in attendance.
On January 28, 2009, keyboardist Billy Powell died at age 56 at his home near Jacksonville, Florida. Powell called 911 at 12:55 a.m., complaining of shortness of breath. He had previously missed his doctor's appointment on the day before his death; the appointment was for a checkup on his heart. The EMS responders found Powell unconscious and unresponsive, with the telephone still in his hand. Rescue crews performed CPR, but he was pronounced dead at 1:52 a.m. Although a heart attack was suspected, and it was originally reported that an autopsy was to be performed, none in fact was ever done. Powell's death left Gary Rossington as the sole pre-crash member of the band, unless Rickey Medlocke's brief stint with the band in the early 1970's is counted. On March 17, 2009, it was announced that Skynyrd had signed a worldwide deal with Roadrunner Records, in association with their label, Loud & Proud Records, and released their new album God & Guns on September 29 of that year. They toured Europe and the United States in 2009 with Peter Keys of the 420 Funk Mob on keyboards and Robert Kearns of The Bottle Rockets on bass (in place of Ean Evans, who died of cancer at age 48 on May 6, 2009, at his home in Columbus, Mississippi). Scottish rock band Gun have been confirmed as special guests for the UK leg of Skynyrds tour in 2010.
Leonard Skinner, the physical education teacher who inspired the name Lynyrd Skynyrd passed away on September 21st, 2010
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003-Free Bird If I leave here tomorrow Would you still remember me? For …
07 Sweet Home Alabama (One, two, three) (Turn it up) Big wheels keep on turning …
Ain Now I'll tell you plainly, baby, what a plan to…
Ain't No Good Life Ain't no good life Not the one that I lead…
Ain't Too Proud To Pray I heard the voice and saw the face And I know…
All Funked Up Tornados spinnin', I sit here grinnin' I think we've all see…
All I Can Do Is Write About It Well, this life that I've live has took me everywhere There…
All I Have Is A Song These ol' white lines on the highway Lord its all I…
Am I Losin I recall when I used to come home, never had…
At Least I'm Free Look into the mirror Are you scared of what you see? Tell…
Backstreet Crawler I snuck around the corner he had this guy down I…
Ballad of Curtis Loew Well, I used to wake the mornin' Before the rooster crowed S…
Berneice I can still remember I was eight years old The first…
Best Things In Life I've got a sayin' in my life that's got me…
Blame It On A Sad Song Here I sit all by myself Wonderin' how she could put…
Blame On A Bad Song Here I sit all by myself Wonderin' how she could put…
Born To Run There's an old man sittin' on a front porch now Talkin'…
Brickyard Road Doesn't seem that long ago Three of us walkin' down that…
Bring It On Uhh huh that's right Missy was a real fine looker Always ha…
Call Me The Breeze Call me the breeze I keep blowin' down the road Well, now…
Call Me The Breeze ) Call me the breeze I keep blowin' down the road Well now…
Can What can they all be thinkin' Wanna' take the cross off…
Can't Take That Away What can they all be thinkin' Wanna' take the cross off…
Cheatin Cheatin' woman make you crazy Cheatin' woman make you a…
Cheatin' Women Oh baby, a cheatin' woman make you crazy Cheatin' woman make…
Christmas Time Love this time of year It seems to bring us near I…
Comin It's been so long since I've been gone Another day might…
Comin Home It's been so long since I've been gone Another day might…
Comin' Back For More I ain't the kind to stick around without it It'd be…
Comin' Home It's been so long since I've been gone Another day might…
Coming Home From the Mason-Dixon Line Through the hills of Caroline Oh, …
Crawl Your love does something to me that I can't describe…
Cross Roads I went down to the crossroads Fell down on my knees Down…
Crossroads I went down to the crossroads Fell down on my knees Down…
Crossroads - I went down to the crossroads Fell down on my knees Down…
Cry For The Bad Man Well he walks so tall to be so small Never met…
Dead Man Walkin' Outside of Macon off a country road Justice was forsaken wh…
Dead Man Walking Outside of Macon off a country road Justice was forsaken whe…
Dean Man Walkin' Outside of Macon off a country road Justice was forsaken wh…
Devil In The Bottle Well, there's a devil in the bottle, staring straight at…
Dixie New york city is a thousand miles away And if you…
Dixie / Sweet Home Alabama Big wheels keep on turning Carry me home to see my…
Do It Up Right Yeah, she's sittin' at the table, lookin' down at her…
Don Well everytime that I come home nobody wants to let…
Don't Ask Me No Questions Well, every time that I come home Nobody wants to…
Don't Misunderstand Me I know where you're goin', I see where you've been Don't…
Donât Ask Me No Questions Well, every time that I come home Nobody wants to…
dont ask me no questions Well everytime that I come home nobody wants to let…
Dont Ask Me No Questions (Sing Well, every time that I come home Nobody wants to let…
Don’t Ask Me No Questions Well, every time that I come home Nobody wants to…
Double Trouble Eleven times I been busted, eleven times I been to…
Down South Jukin Well Billy Joe told me, said everything's lookin' fine He's…
Down South Jukin' Well, Billy Joe told me ,well everything's lookin' fine He g…
Down South Junkin' Well Billy Joe told me, said everything's lookin' fine He's…
Edge Of Forever I hear the rumors flyin' About a head on crash At the…
End of the Road Lynyrd Skynyrd - End of the road It was a late…
Every Mother's Son Well I've been ridin' a winning horse for a long,…
FLA That's right Well the dogs are barkin' and I'm out rockin…
Floyd Floyd was a trapper way back in the holler Made moonshine…
Four Walls Of Raiford Well them four walls of Raiford, closing in on me Doin'…
Free Bird If I leave here tomorrow Would you still remember me? For I…
Free Bird (Shade Tree Demos) If I leave here tomorrow Would you still remember me For I…
Free Bird - Shade Tree Demo If I leave here tomorrow Would you still remember me? For I…
Freebird If I leave here tomorrow Would you still remember me For I…
Freebird. If I leave here tomorrow Would you still remember me For I…
Full Moon Night Oh yeah oh On a foggy road just before sunrise Don't you…
G.W.T.G.G That's right, come on Long tall Sally's looking good to me …
G.W.T.G.G. That's right, come on Long tall Sally's looking good to m…
Georgia Peaches Well, you can see her walkin' down on Peachtree Street…
Getaway I'm feeling the strain of getting nowhere again Of living my…
Gifted Hands I remember the day that he came in I can't believe…
Gimme Back My Bullets Life is so strange when it's changin', yes indeed Well, I've…
Gimme Three Steps I was cutting a rug Down at place called The Jug With…
God & Guns Last night I heard this politician Talking 'bout his brand n…
Gone Fishin The only time I'll get up early Is to meet my…
GoneFishin The only time I'll get up early Is to meet my…
Good Lovin Every woman's out there lookin' for a rich man And every…
Good Lovin' Is Hard To Find Every woman's out there lookin' for a rich man And every…
Good Lovin's Hard To Find Every woman's out there lookin' for a rich man And every…
Good Luck I ain't the son of the seventh son, black cats…
Good Teacher He was 5 foot 7 Strong as an Oak tree Yeah he…
Good Thing My baby came home late last night I said girl I…
Got the Same Old Blues Have you heard that rumor that´s goin´ around My baby´s got…
Gotta Go I don't care who you are baby Don't care about all…
Greensleeves Alas my love you do me wrong To cast me out…
Hallelujah Christmas lights out in the yard A wreath hung on our…
He Oh yeah, alright I do believe in you more than myself I…
Heartbreak Hotel Since my baby left me, i found a new place…
Hell or Heaven Mama used to say to me, you can make your…
Hes Alive Oh yeah, alright I do believe in you more than myself I…
Hillbilly Blues (Gary Rossington - Ed King - Johnny Van Zant -…
Home Is Where the Heart Is I've always lived my life like a gypsy I can't imagine…
Homegrown She's like fashion out of a steel mine She ain't afraid…
Honey Hole There's a little place down in Jackson County Right off the…
Honkey Tonk Night Time Man Lynyrd Skynyrd - Honkey-Tonk, Night-Time Man Little bit of …
Honky Tonk Night Time Man Little bit of Bakersfield I'm a honky tonk night time…
How Soon We Forget Every time I think I got it all figured out Then…
I Now I'll tell you plainly, baby, what a plan to…
I Ain't the One (1976/Live At Knebworth Fair) One, two, three Now I'll tell you plainly baby, what I…
I Ain't the One (Live At Knebworth Fair/1976) Now I'll tell you plainly baby, what I plan to…
I Ain't the One (Live at Knebworth) (Live, Knebworth Fair) One, two, three Now I'll tell you plainly baby, what I…
I Aint the One Now I'll tell you plainly, baby, what a plan to…
I Got the Same Old Blues Have you heard that rumor that´s goin´ around My baby´s got…
I Know a Little Yes sir Well the bigger the city, well the brighter the…
I Need You Ain't no need to worry There ain't no use to cry 'Cause…
I Never Dreamed My daddy told me always be strong son Don't you ever…
I'm a Country Boy New York City is a thousand miles away And if you…
I've Been Your Fool Well ever since I met you babe you've been running…
I've Seen Enough You got to lock your doors, keep the world out We're…
If I Just the other day I heard my friend say Life…
If I'm Wrong (Shade Tree Demo) Just the other day, I heard my friend say Life was…
It's a Killer There's a rumor goin' 'round on the backside of town Jake…
Jacksonville Kid This old town ain't been the same Since this old boys…
Jake A boy gets crazy when he's sittin' at the bar Don't…
Jingle Bell Rock Jingle bell, jingle bell Jingle bell rock Jingle bell swing …
Junkie Disillusions fillin' my head Never happy, I wished I was dea…
Keeping the Faith Are you a saint then don't be a stranger Were you…
Kiss Your Freedom Goodbye I don't read the paper, I don't watch the news Life's…
Last of a Dyin' Breed Oh yeah! Got a pocket full of memories and my song Got…
Lean A Helpin' Hand Oh. Now when you think the time's flying Take a look…
Lend A Helpin' Hand Oh. Now when you think the time's flying Take a look…
Life Mmm... I listen, and still I haven't heard Tell me what is…
Life's Lessons Mmm... I listen, and still I haven't heard Tell me what is…
Life's Twisted Just when you think you’ve got it figured out It comes…
Little Thing Called You Woman lose my number You can't get to me My pockets ain't…
Love Don't Always Come Easy Two young lovers meet and take each others hand They say…
Low Down Dirty It said 3:30 on my watch Big show don't start…
Lucky Man MMmmmMMMmmm... Well it took so long for me to realize That m…
lynyrd skynyrd This old town ain't been the same Since this old boys…
Mad Hatter We just landed We just touched down It just hit home yeah…
Made In The Shade "Well when I was a young-un they used to teach…
Mama She'd wake us up early Every mornin' She'd help us say our…
Mean Streets Raised up with two kinds of people The good ones and…
Michelle Michelle, little girl I need you baby More than the air…
Missisippi Kid I've got my pistols in my pockets boys I'm Alabama…
Mississippi Blood She’s got Mississippi Blood runnin’ through her veins Her ma…
Mississippi Kid I've got my pistols in my pockets boys I'm Alabama…
Money Back Guarantee She's on the left, I'm on the right Oh, here comes…
Money Man This song goes out to all the money men He drives…
Mr Banker Lynyrd Skynyrd - Mr. Banker Mister Banker Mister please, ho…
Need All My Friends Woman, I have to leave you I can't stay where there…
Needle And The Spoon Thirty days, lord and thirty nights I'm comin' home on an…
Never Too Late In this world that we all live in Its all takin'…
No One Can Take Your Place Ain't no reason why I should feel this way I got…
None Of Us Are Free You better listen my brother 'cause if you do you can…
Nothing Comes Easy Oh another hot cup of coffee, i’m up at 5…
O.R.R There's a story to tell about days of old A man…
On The Hunt I said baby mama, I don't know your name But I…
On The Hunt ) I said baby mama, I don't know your name But I…
One Day At a Time Angels sing and buzzards fly Kingdoms fall and rivers rise I…
One In The Sun Somewhere the sun is shining On some unhappy day Somewhere t…
One More Time Angels sing and buzzards fly Kingdoms fall and rivers rise I…
One Thing I met the man, when I was fifteen Seen him in…
Opportunity There've been times when I Have stumbled over my mistakes An…
Outta Hell In My Dodge Five AM in the mornin', whiskey still runnin' through my…
Pick Well sometimes I lose my direction And sometimes I jump off…
Pick Em' Up Well sometimes I lose my direction And sometimes I jump off…
Poison Whiskey Daddy was a Cajun, raised on Southern land And so my…
Poor Man's Dream There ain't no poor man Born with a silver spoon And there…
Preacher Well, just keep on runnin' mama, 'till you can't run…
Preacher Man You know i´m dirty because it´s in me Life´s not easy And…
Preacher's Daughter Well, just keep on runnin' mama, 'till you can't run…
Pure & Simple I used to live in a poor neighborhood My friends and…
Railroad Song I jumped off a boxcar down around Tennessee I was…
Ready to Fly Mamma called this morning, said 'Son won't you come back hom…
Red White & Blue We don't have no plastic l.a. friends Ain't on the edge…
Red White and Blue We don't have no plastic l.a. friends Ain't on the edge…
Rockin That's right Yeah Big bad machine still makin' the scene Bi…
Roll Gypsy Roll Ridin' on a greyhound, countin' those white lines Destinati…
Rough Around The Edges I knew a man a long long time But I never…
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Had a very shiny nose And if …
Run Run Rudolph Out of all the reindeer you know you're the mastermind Run,…
Sad Song And we could fight this all night long There is…
Same Old Blues Have you heard that rumor that´s goin´ around My baby´s got…
Santa Santa come' once a year, we all know Didn't use my…
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town I just came back from a lovely trip along the…
Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin Now Mama's in the kitchen cookin' And her children are fast…
Santa's Messin' With The Kid Santa come' once a year, we all know Didn't use my…
Santas Messin With the Kid Santa come' once a year, we all know Didn't use my…
Saturday Night Special Two feet they come a creepin' Like a black cat do And…
Saturday Night Special (1976/Live At Knebworth Fair) Two feets they come a creepin Like a black cat do And…
Searchin I asked the wise man one sunny day Can you help…
Searching I asked the wise man one sunny day Can you…
Searching - Live At The Fox Theater/1976 I asked the wiseman one sunny day Can you help me…
Seasons When the season is turning And my day has gone by And…
Sheet Home Alabama (One, two, three) (Turn it up) Big wheels keep on turning …
Simple Life Hey, when is the last time you sat down and…
Simple Man Mama told me when I was young "Come sit beside me,…
Simple Man - Live At The Fox Theatre/1976 Mama told me, When I was young, "Come sit beside me, My only…
Skynyrd Family Well it looks like it's another Skynyrd Family Christmas tim…
Skynyrd Nation I think it's gonna be good night here Rickey! I think…
Smokestack Lightnin I was sittin' at home all alone when I heard…
Something to Live For What the hell have we done To get this far down? Yeah…
South Of Heaven There's a honky-tonk just south of Georgia A little salvatio…
Southern Ways When I was 15 I dreamed of leaving my home I…
Southern Women I'm the kind of man that loves all the girls From…
Start Livin' Life Again Money can't buy you happiness And that drinkin' can cause y…
Still Unbroken Broken bones, broken hearts Stripped down and torn apart A l…
Storm There was a time that you believed That nothing could happen…
Swamp Music I'm goin' down to the swamp Goin' watch me a hound…
Sweet Home Alabam (One, two, three) (Turn it up) Big wheels keep on turning …
Sweet home California Eleven times I been busted, eleven times I been to…
Sweet Home Town Alabama (One, two, three) (Turn it up) Big wheels keep on turning …
Sweet Little Missy Why are you praying, my sweet morning dove You're so afraid,…
Sweet Mama Here we go... C'mon... I was raised on the west side Shanty…
Swwet Home Alabama (One, two, three) (Turn it up) Big wheels keep on turning …
T For Texas Give me a T for Texas, give me a T…
Take Your Time Well, my poor, broke mama told me When I was twelve…
Talked Myself Right Into It Alarm Clock ring about a quarter after five I've been up…
Tearin' It Up Yeah, she's sittin' at the table, lookin' down at her…
That Whiskey bottles, and brand new cars Oak tree you're in my…
That ain't America Sometimes I want to light up underneath the no smoking…
That Smell Whiskey bottles, and brand new cars Oak tree you're in my…
That Smell (1977/Live At Asbury Park Whiskey bottles and brand new cars Oak tree you're in my…
That's How I Like It Let me tell ya Where I come from its bix and…
The Ballad Of Curtis Loew Well, I used to wake the mornin' Before the rooster crowed S…
The Last Rebel There's a grey horse standin' still As a soldier climbs in…
The Needle & the Spoon Thirty days, Lord, and thirty nights I'm coming home on an…
The Needle And The Spoon Thirty days, Lord and thirty nights I'm comin' home on an…
The Needle And The Spoon ) Thirty days, Lord and thirty nights I'm comin' home on an…
The Seasons When the season is turning And my day has gone by And…
The Way Well the sun don't shine where it used to And the…
Things Goin Have you ever lived down in the ghetto Have you…
Things Goin On Well, have you ever lived down in the ghetto? Have you…
Things Going On Have you ever lived down in the ghetto Have you…
Three Steps I was cutting a rug Down at place called The Jug With…
Through It All Dig down and tell me what you find Back in the…
Tomorrow I'm just a city boy But there's a small town side…
Tomorrow's Goodbye I'm just a city boy But there's a small town side…
Travelin I was born a travelin' man, that's all I'll ever…
Travellin I was born a travellin' man, that's all I'll ever…
Travlin Man I was born a travelin' man That's all I'll ever be Moving…
Truck Drivin Well he's truckin' on down from Memphis Cruisin' down to Ne…
Truck Drivin' Man Well he's truckin' on down from Memphis Cruisin' down to New…
Truck Drivin' Man (Demo Version) (Ronnie VanZant -- Ed King) Well he's truckin' on down from…
Truck Driving Man Well he's truckin' on down from Memphis Cruisin' down to New…
Trust I'd like to tell y'all a story About a friend of…
Tuesday Train roll on, on down the line, Won't you please take…
Tuesday's Gone Train roll on, on down the line Won't you please take…
Tuesday's Gone ) Train roll on, on down the line, Won't you please take…
Tuesdays Gone Train roll on, on down the line Won't you please take…
Unwrite That Song Well I heard it on the late night radio For the…
Voodoo Lake Way down yonder you can hear the wind blow Through the…
Was I Right Or Wrong Like a restless leaf in the autumn breeze, Once, I was…
We Ain This is a story 'bout livin' A tale of a long…
We Ain't Much Different This is a story 'bout livin' A tale of a long…
What Well, its eight o'clock in Boise, Idaho I'll find my limo…
What Am I To Do Well, I don't know why I feel the way that…
What Can I Do Well, this life that I've live has took me everywhere There…
What's Your Name Well, its eight o'clock in Boise, Idaho I'll find my limo…
When You Got Good Friends You got to love ol' Charlie Daniels You got to cut…
Whiskey Rock-A-Roller I'm headed down a highway got a suitcase by my…
Whiskey Rock-A-Roller (1976/Live At Fox Theater, Atlanta) I'm headed down a highway, got my suitcase by my…
White Dove One, two, three, two, two, three White dove sittin' on a…
White Knuckle Ride When I was a kid, I loved hanging out Down at…
Wild-Eyed Christmas Night Now all year long we've been waiting for the season…
Wino Wino on the street. drinkin' a bottle of booze Ain't got…
Workin Seven years of hard luck, comin' down on me From the…
You Got That Right Well I've heard lots of people say They're gonna settle down…