Both the pilot and co pilot were also killed. The cover that featured Ronnie Van Zant and Steve Gaines on fire was quickly pulled from the shelves of record stores. The Street Survivors album had seemed to be a transitional album for the band as the addition of guitarist and songwriter Steve Gaines helped change the sound of the group. Simply said, Gaines wrote great songs and played great guitar. Although legal issues and concepts of respect, and exploitation all threatened to cancel the newly formed Lynyrd Skynyrd, the band continued on. I saw the band in with Ted Nugent. No one could sing like Ronnie Van Zant. There was an honesty in his voice that everyone fell in love with. It appeared as the second track on side two of the record. Not all Lynyrd Skynyrd songs were raucous barn burners.

# 9 – Tuesday’s Gone
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They loved guitars like their musical brethren and idols the Allman Brothers Band , boasting three powerhouse players. But in many ways, they weren't a typical Southern rock band. Singer Ronnie Van Zant who was killed, along with other members of the band and crew, in a plane crash on Oct. At times he apologized for the South's often abhorrent reputation; other times he probed the sex, drugs and gun culture his band got caught up in, emerging as a smart, pensive voice in a genre that often steamrolled over such qualities. This list of the Top 10 Lynyrd Skynyrd songs stops at , the year the original band released their fifth and final album. Three of them make our list of the Top 10 Lynyrd Skynyrd Songs. This one, like so many Skynyrd tunes, comes as a bit of advice from someone who's lived long enough to pass some down. It's a life lesson that Van Zant wielded like a code of conduct. The closing song on the band's second album was written by Oklahoma bluesman JJ Cale. Skynyrd's version is looser, funkier and, frankly, much better.
# 10 – I Never Dreamed
Hailing from Jacksonville, Florida, southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd were one of the most succesful bands of the s. In October , three days after the release of their fifth album Street Survivors , the band boarded a flight to Baton Rouge, Louisiana where they were due to play the following evening. Due to a faulty engine, the plane attempted an emergency landing. The band have continued performing to this day and have 60 million album sales to their name. Ricky Medlocke — who drummed for the band between — rejoined the band in as guitarist. We challenged him to pick the 10 definitive Skynyrd tracks. The heavy rock songs.
Guitar World pays tribute to Southern rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd by ranking their greatest tracks. Van Zant and Ed King wrote the song in one fell swoop. This spontaneous songwriting was typical of Van Zant. He would write constantly in the shower, walking around, wherever. Gaines and Rossington both used the Peavey Mace, a versatile twin-speaker combo now long out of production, onstage. Besides their Southern heritage, Skynyrd also shared a taste for harmonized guitar parts with the Allman Brothers. King sets up the tune with his biting Strat tone, and Rossington delivers the guitar break with a little extra punch from his Les Paul. Along the way Van Zant conjures an idyllic fantasy version of the rural South as an escape from big city life, name-dropping Delta blues icon Son House and pining for long days hunting with his coon hounds. Van Zant was an avid outdoorsman, so the sound of a yelping pack was likely music to his ears. The guitar solo section ramps things up a notch higher with a classic, high-energy Allen Collins solo, after which the song settles back into the quieter verse arrangement.