Lynyrd Skynyrd - Collected (Yellow Vinyl)

Yellow 180 Gram Vinyl, Numbered Limited Edition

This is Music On Vinyl's yellow pressing of Collected: two 180 gram LPs in a gatefold sleeve with a four-page booklet of liner notes, limited to 7,500 individually numbered copies, catalog number MOVLP2119. Music On Vinyl first issued the compilation in 2018 as a numbered double LP on blue and red vinyl.

Twenty-one songs run across the four sides, from "Need All My Friends," credited to the early spelling Lynard Skynard, through "Free Bird," "Sweet Home Alabama" and "That Smell" to "Last of a Dyin' Breed." "Need All My Friends" and "I've Been Your Fool," which open side A, were among the band's first recordings.

Music On Vinyl's notes trace the band to a group of high-school musicians in Jacksonville, Florida, who took their name from a strict P.E. teacher. Producer Al Kooper discovered them and helped shape their debut, which carried "Tuesday's Gone," "Simple Man" and "Free Bird." In 1977 a plane carrying the band to a show in Baton Rouge crashed; Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and backing singer Cassie Gaines were among those killed. The surviving members brought Lynyrd Skynyrd back a decade later.

"Sweet Home Alabama," the audio above, opens side B.

Tracklist

Side A

1. Need All My Friends (as Lynard Skynard)
2. I've Been Your Fool
3. Free Bird
4. Tuesday's Gone

Side B

1. Sweet Home Alabama
2. Don't Ask No Questions
3. Working For MCA
4. Call Me The Breeze
5. Saturday Night Special

Side C

1. Whiskey Rock-A-Roller
2. Double Trouble
3. Gimme Back My Bullets
4. What's Your Name
5. That Smell
6. Down South Jukin'

Side D

1. Smokestack Lightning
2. Good Lovin's Hard To Find
3. Devil In The Bottle
4. Red White & Blue
5. Still Unbroken
6. Last Of A Dyin' Breed

Complete the Collection

Also from Lynyrd Skynyrd at Evergreen Vinyl, three titles with this one: Skynyrd's First And... Last, Street Survivors.