Street Survivors

by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Overview

Lynyrd Skynyrd's fifth studio release should have been the band's well-deserved entree into the upper echelons of international rock & roll stardom. Fate would intervene and for some very non-musical reasons, Lynyrd Skynyrd's best-selling release also became the band's final studio recording. In addition to the thoroughly remastered album, this expanded edition adds several alternate versions of tracks from the disc, as well as a few songs left over from the Street Survivors sessions. The success of "What's Your Name" as well as "That Smell" and "You Got That Right" was practically guaranteed by the incessant support of FM rock radio. A closer examination reveals that Street Survivors actually bears very little in the way of filler material, considering the cut-and-paste methodology used to complete the disc. In fact, one of the most underappreciated pieces on Street Survivors dates back to before the band's debut album. "One More Time" was originally recorded during a 1971 session at Muscle Shoals studios and can be heard -- sans the 1977 augmentation -- on Skynyrd's First: Complete Muscle Shoals Album. Likewise, "I Know a Little" is a track that Steve Gaines (guitar/vocals) brought to the fold from his pre- Skynyrd days. The song's high-energy rhythm and good-time country flavor made it almost obligatory incidental music during the '80s NASCAR sports simulcasts. Although a majority of the bonus tracks were issued on subsequent compilations, here they are given both historical perspective as well as presented in a way that highlights the improvements and directions that the band was attempting to steer the music into. On October 20, 1977, three days after the release of Street Survivors, Ronnie Van Zant (vocals) and Steve Gaines (guitar) were killed when the chartered aircraft the band was using ran out of fuel near Gillsburg, MS. Indeed, the band's surviving members would re-form in several spurious attempts to reclaim and/or honor the music and heritage of Lynyrd Skynyrd. However, it is difficult to argue that the band's effect would ever be as powerful or as direct than on this release. ~ Lindsay Planer

Product Details

Release Date:	11/20/2001
Label:	Mca / Ooo Universal
UPC:	0008811275020

Tracks

1. 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
9. Georgia Peaches
10. Sweet Little Missy
11. You Got That Right
12. I Never Dreamed
13. Jacksonville Kid (aka "Honky Tonk Night Time Man")

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Lynyrd Skynyrd   Primary Artist
Cassie Gaines   Vocals (Background),Vocals
Steve Gaines   Guitar,Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Billy Powell   Keyboards
Ed King   Guitar
Gary Rossington   Guitar
Leon Wilkeson   Bass,Vocals (Background)
Artimus Pyle   Drums
Ronnie Eades   Saxophone
Barry Harwood   Dobro
Ronnie Van Zant   Vocals,Lead Vocals
Rick Medlocke   Drums,Vocals (Background)
Tim Smith   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Jojo Billingsley   Vocals (Background)
Greg T. Walker   Bass
Jo Jo Billingsley   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Leslie Hawkins   Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Honkettes   Vocals (Background)
Allen Collins   Guitar

Technical Credits

Steve Gaines   Composer
Kevin Elson   Mixing,Engineer
Ken Perry   Mastering
Claude Johnson   Composer
Lynyrd Skynyrd   Producer
Gary Rossington   Composer
Ron O'Brien   Illustrations
Rodney Mills   Mixing,Engineer,Producer
Merle Haggard   Composer
Barry Rudolph   Engineer
Dennis Hetzendorfer   Engineer
Ronnie Van Zant   Composer
Tim Smith   Producer
Tom Dowd   Arranger,Producer
Tad Bush   Engineer
George Osaki   Art Direction
David Alexander   Photography,Cover Design
Jimmy Johnson   Engineer,Producer
Allen Collins   Composer