LYNYRD SKYNYRD Second Helping MCA413 EX Vinyl LP 1975 repress Sweet Home Alabama

Description: Offered here is the 1975 repress of “second helping” by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Originally released in 1974, this is the black MCA label 2nd pressing. Vinyl is EX with minimal visual signs of having been played or handled. Play grades EX on the Linn LP 12 with a bare minimum of crackle, only Observed between tracks. Jacket is also EX. Some discoloration and very slight wrinkle/spine deterioration. No seam splits or writing. Includes the original company inner sleeve. As shown. Packaged professionally and shipped FREE immediately upon receipt of payment. Second Helping Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote the book on Southern rock with their first album, so it only made sense that they followed it for their second album, aptly titled Second Helping. Sticking with producer Al Kooper (who, after all, discovered them), the group turned out a record that replicated all the strengths of the original, but was a little tighter and a little more professional. It also revealed that the band, under the direction of songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, was developing a truly original voice. Of course, the band had already developed their own musical voice, but it was enhanced considerably by Van Zant's writing, which was at turns plainly poetic, surprisingly clever, and always revealing. Though Second Helping isn't as hard a rock record as Pronounced, it's the songs that make the record. "Sweet Home Alabama" became ubiquitous, yet it's rivaled by such terrific songs as the snide, punkish "Workin' for MCA," the Southern groove of "Don't Ask Me No Questions," the affecting "The Ballad of Curtis Loew," and "The Needle and the Spoon," a drug tale as affecting as their rival Neil Young's "Needle and the Damage Done," but much harder rocking. This is the part of Skynyrd that most people forget -- they were a great band, but they were indelible because that was married to great writing. And nowhere was that more evident than on Second Helping.

Price: 33 USD

Location: Birmingham, Alabama

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