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Legendary American band LYNYRD SKYNYRD are currently saying goodbye to the road, but those who’ll miss the Southern rock heroes will have a souvenir to remember them with the band’s “Live In Atlantic City”, a CD + Blu-ray package released today Sept. 21. The set documents Skynyrd’s June 23, 2006, concert at the Decades Rock Arena, a television studio and...
“Take It On Faith” is the title from the upcoming album by ROSSINGTON, the band created by Lynyrd Skynyrd co-founder and guitarist Gary Rossington and his wife, Dale Krantz-Rossington. The album features 12 new songs, all tracked by an ace studio band that was put together by the album’s producer and engineer, David Z (Prince, Etta James, Buddy Guy). The...
TimeLife (the informercial company) has released over the years lots of greatest hits collections from big bands to do-wop to classic rock to country to best love ballads.Now they introduce something new in the realm of compilation albums – for the first time ever in conjunction with Audio Fidelity they have assembled the original masters of some of rock’s biggest...
Loud & Proud Records will release tomorrow “Red White & Blue“, a recently unearthed VAN ZANT show recorded on January 28, 2006 at Wild Adventures Theme Park in Valdosta, Georgia, the only concert recording in existence from the only tour by brothers Johnny (Lynyrd Skynyrd) and Donnie (38 Special) Van Zant. This ‘lost’ album was discovered by Donnie’s 38 Special...
* JIMMIE VAN ZANT is the younger of the Van Zant family who has been touring the U.S. for years spreading the music that made this dynasty into the American legends they are today. “Feels Like Freedom” is his fourth album and surely the best in Jimmie’s discography At the beginning of his career in the late nineties, Jimmie was...
* Anytime LYNYRD SKYNYRD comes out with a new CD, infrequently as that maybe, the reaction is almost universally the same: They’re not as good as the original seventies line-up. But that doesn’t mean Skynyrd’s second incarnation can’t rock. In fact, to my ears, their brand new album “Last Of A Dyin’ Breed” is one of the best in their...
