Lyrnyrd Skynyrd - Street Survivors CD

The final album recorded with original frontman Ronnie Van Zant and lone studio effort with guitarist Steve Gaines, who both passed away in a tragic plane crash three days after its release, 1977's Street Survivors is both mythical for its historical significance as well as infallible for its songwriting quality. Helmed by Gimme Back My Bullets producer Tom Dowd, Street Survivors is drenched in earthy vibes and live-from-the-floor rawness, the sense of spontaneity and interplay underlining some of the group’s tautest albeit loosest material. Songs flow with an effortless ease, and whether it’s the rough and tumble anthem "What's Your Name," slithering organ-backed rollick of “I Never Dreamed,” swampy cautionary tale “That Smell,” or autobiographical honky-tonk “Ain’t No Good Life,” Skynryd clicks on all cylinders and then some throughout!