Here is my review. I give high marks for this title and hope we get more. If there was one slight thing, I would have cranked the guitars a bit more on Freebird, as another poster has commented. But on my vintage Quad Amp, I was able to make it sound how I wanted.
I give this a 10.
One thing, to add context to this band, I too have not listened to Lynyrd Skynyrd in a very long while. Although ingrained into my soul, when I was in my 20's I moved on from 70s rock, and joined the underground Punk movement. This meant listening to more types of music.
But the thing to remember that's most important if you were not born then, is that the 1970s was a very mellow time for people of all walks of life to chill out and come together. I miss that. Although at the time, we thought here that the late 70s were boring and that there would NEVER be nostalgia for the 70s as it felt like we were bombarded with too much "American Graffiti" and "Happy Days" phony 50s nostalgia. We also had disco, we had punk and funk and soul music. It was confusing, and yet the 70s was a weird mishmash of cultures that came together anyway. It was fun and there were lot's of good times, even if we didn't have much.
Consider this line-up of different bands at a concert I went to at the huge outdoor Oakland Coliseum "Day of the Green" concert series:
Day On The Green #4 & 5: Peter Frampton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Santana, Outlaws (July 2 & 4, 1977). You get stoned to Santana, then party with Lynyrd Skynyrd and for desert, rock out with Peter Frampton as headliner.
The thing I hope never gets forgotten is what a soulful band the original Lynyrd Skynyrd was. It was very sad and a big loss when their plane crashed. They had to pull the album's original album cover with the fire on the band. They were just getting started as a big band after struggling for many years. They were NOT the establishment at the time, but hippies that must have gotten a lot of grief for being the individual's they were. And that was the commonality many folks found with each other, that we wanted to have a good time, but also listen to music that had meaning. So listen to their music/words, actually not bad, still holds up fairly well for a good time party band.
Anyway, let's hope we can get more of these titles.
