Tuesday's Gone

"Tuesday's Gone" is the second track on Lynyrd Skynyrd's first album, "(pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd)". One of the band's most popular songs, its relaxing pace and serenading guitars have made it a fan staple. The lyrics, featuring themes of a relationship ending because of extensive touring, are similar in mood to the band's signature tune "Free Bird". The distinct introduction to the song features a mellotron, played by Al Kooper.

Cover versions

Metallica covered "Tuesday's Gone" on the album Garage Inc., which features special appearances from Les Claypool from Primus, Jerry Cantrell from Alice in Chains, John Popper from Blues Traveler, Pepper Keenan from Corrosion of Conformity, Jim Martin formerly of Faith No More, credited as Fatso, as well as Gary Rossington, one of the song's original writers, on guitar.

In 1994, a cover version was recorded by country music artist Hank Williams, Jr., as part of a compilation titled Skynyrd Frynds, which featured several country acts performing covers of Skynyrd songs.

In 2004, Faycel and Pelo covered the song on their first album, entitled Mickey Mouse, released only in Tunisia

On July 13, 1999, Phish covered the song for an encore at the then called Tweeter Center (now the Comcast Center for the Performing Arts) outside of Boston, in Mansfield, Massachusetts^[1]

In 2001, a previously unreleased demo version of the song was featured as a bonus track on the reissued and expanded CD. The demo version is also available on the 2005 Chronicles CD box set.

Bluegrass versions of the song were recorded by The Stevens Sisters, Beth and April Stevens, on their 2002 CD Little By Little, and by Larry Cordle and Lonesome Standard Time on their 2004 tribute CD Lonesome Skynyrd Time.

Media usage

• Played in a fourth season episode of One Tree Hill, "Pictures of You", during numerous scenes of the characters sharing secrets with one another.

• Played at the end of the third episode in the first season of My Name Is Earl.^[2]

• Played at the beginning and end of the Adam Sandler movie Happy Gilmore.

• The song is memorably featured in the 1993 film Dazed and Confused.

• Heard briefly in the biopic Boys Don't Cry.

• "Tuesday's Gone" is featured in the biography movie Prefontaine about Steve Prefontaine. The song is playing during the scene in which Prefontaine encounters an ex-girlfriend for whom he still has feelings.

• Featured in the game Guitar Hero: Metallica And as Downloadable content For Rock Band 3

• Used in a Kingsford charcoal commercial.

• Used in Episode 2 of Judd Apatow's series Undeclared

• Used in commercial for the show The Deadliest Catch

In popular culture

By the late 2000s, over thirty years after the song's original release, the phrase "Tuesday's Gone" had fallen into popular usage on mid-western college campuses as a slang term indicating that a keg was empty or that a party had otherwise run out of alcohol. This association presumably began due to the song's usage in the film Dazed and Confused in the scene when the keg runs dry.

Following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, a Tuesday, the song was placed on the list of post-9/11 inappropriate titles distributed by Clear Channel.

References

1. ^ PT | Phish | Shows | 07/13/99 Tweeter Center Boston - Mansfield, MA
2. ^ My Name Is Earl | Season 1 | Episode 3 - Track Listing

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