The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd

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The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd
Compilation album by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Released August 25, 1998
Recorded 1971 - 1977
Genre Southern rock
Length 2:10:47
Label MCA Records
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Lynyrd Skynyrd chronology
Lynyrd Skynyrd
(1991)		 The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd
(1998)		 All Time Greatest Hits
(2000)
Gold
Gold cover
Compilation album by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Released August 8, 2006
Label Universal/Geffen
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The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd, reissued as Gold, is a two-disc compilation of Lynyrd Skynyrd in the peak years of its classic lineup (1971-1977).

  • In 1998, it was released as The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd by MCA.
  • In 2006, it was re-released as Gold by Geffen (which had absorbed MCA), with identical content and a slightly different cover.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc 1

  1. "Sweet Home Alabama" – 4:45
  2. "I Ain't the One" – 3:54
  3. "Was I Right or Wrong" – 5:24
  4. "Gimme Three Steps" – 4:31
  5. "Workin' for MCA" – 4:48
  6. "Simple Man" – 5:58
  7. "Swamp Music" – 3:32
  8. "The Ballad of Curtis Loew" – 4:52
  9. "Saturday Night Special" – 5:12
  10. "Mr. Banker" – 5:22
  11. "Comin' Home [original version]" – 5:30
  12. "Call Me the Breeze" – 5:09
  13. "Free Bird" – 9:10

[edit] Disc 2

  1. "What's Your Name" – 3:33
  2. "Whiskey Rock-A-Roller (live)" – 4:16
  3. "Tuesday's Gone" – 7:34
  4. "Double Trouble" – 2:50
  5. "I Know a Little" – 3:29
  6. "Four Walls of Raiford" – 4:14
  7. "I Never Dreamed" – 5:21
  8. "Gimme Back My Bullets (live)" – 3:42
  9. "You Got That Right" – 3:47
  10. "All I Can Do Is Write About It (acoustic version)" – 4:24
  11. "That Smell" – 5:51
  12. "Free Bird (live)" – 13:41