Lynyrd Skynyrd were blazing in the summer of 1976. In a miraculous streak, each year from ’73 they released a gritty, soulful, southern rock studio album that went at least gold.
Starting with Pronounced ‘Lĕh-‘nérd ‘Skin-‘nérd which produced “Gimme Three Steps” and “Free Bird,” to its ’74 follow up Second Helping that gave us “Sweet Home Alabama,” Skynyrd could do little wrong. Even 1976’s Gimme Back My Bullets delivered with the title track, “Double Trouble,” and “Every Mother’s Son.”
This was a band who could attack Neil Young, write an anti-gun anthem, be sensitive, uplifting, and raunchy all while launching into a triple-guitar attack.
Were they also a mess off the stage with the drinking and the drugs and not taking the recording sessions seriously and the getting tossed in jail?
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