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Freebird The Movie: Music From The Motion Picture

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird The Movie: Music From The Motion Picture Audio CD

A fair review of the Lynyrd Skynyrd "Freebird The Movie: Music From The Motion Picture" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Lynyrd Skynyrd reviews here, or go back to the Lynyrd Skynyrd tabs.

Band: Lynyrd Skynyrd
Title: Freebird The Movie: Music From The Motion Picture
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Release Date: 1996-08-13
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Workin' for MCA 2: I Ain't the One 3: Saturday Night Special 4: Whiskey Rock-A-Roller 5: Travelin' Man 6: Searching 7: What's Your Name? 8: That Smell 9: Gimme Three Steps 10: Call Me the Breeze 11: T for Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1) 12: Sweet Home Alabama 13: Free Bird [Live] 14: Dixie - Bruce Brown

Freebird the Movie - Soundtrack
Rock on Freebird! . Great music from a band the goes on and on - The classic line-up really sounds as good today as they did when I was a freshman in high school in 73.

Captures Lynyrd Skynyrd at their greatest!!!

Tracks 1-6 were recorded at Knebworth Fair, Hertfordshire, England on August 21, 1976. An earlier review stated that 13 of the fourteen tracks were recorded at Knebworth Fair, Hertfordshire England this was incorrect, the following is the correct breakdown.
1. Workin' For MCA
2. I Ain't The One
3. Saturday Night Special
4. Whiskey Rock-A-Roller
5. Travellin' Man
6. Searchin'

Track's 7-8 were recorded at Convention Hall Asbury Park,NJ on July, 14 1977, you will even hear Ronnie Van Zant mention that their new album (Street Survivors) which these tracks are from, will be released in September two months from this date, just a month before their ill fated plane crash.

7. What's Your Name
8. That Smell

Tracks 9-11 were from Knebworth Fair, Hertfordshire, England on August 21, 1976.

9. Gimme Three Steps
10. Call Me The Breeze
11. T For Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1)

Track #12,13 were recorded at Oakland Alameda Coliseum, Oakland, CA at Bill Graham's Day On The Green July 4, 1977

12. Sweet Home Alabama
13. Free Bird

Track#14 was a studio recording

14. Dixie.

LYNYRYD SKYNYRD "Freebird the Movie" Soundtrack CD
IT PROOVES THAT SKYNYRD WAS (AND IS) AN EXCELLENT "LIVE" BAND. OUTSTANDING!!! THIS IS THE SOUNDTRACK TO THE LYNYRD SKYNYRD MOVIE "FREEBIRD" AND IS AN EXCELLENT COMPANION TO THE MOVIE. THE CD CONSISTS OF 14 SONGS ALL PERFORMED LIVE (MOST AT THE KNEBWORTH FESTIVAL IN ENGLAND DURING 1976). "FREEBIRD" THE SONG WAS RECORDED AT BILL GRAHAM'S "A DAY ON THE GREEN" IN OAKLAND, CA.

THIS IS "PRE-PLANE CRASH" LYNYRD SKYNYRD PERFORMING AT THEIR VERY BEST "lIVE". YOU GET THE LINE-UP OF RONNIE, GARY, ALLEN, STEVE, BILLY,LEON, AND ARTIMUS AND THE ORIGINAL HONKETTES: LESLEY HAWKINS, JO JO BILLINGSLY, AND CASSIE GAINES!!!

YOU GET AN OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE OF "T FOR TEXAS" PREFORMED LIVE AT THE OUTDOOR KNEBWORTH FESTIVAL. RONNIE INTRODUCES THE SONG AS A SONG WRITTEN BY JIMMIE ROGERS BACK IN THE 1920'S. THE BAND REALLY JAMS ON THIS ONE, IT CONTAINS EXCELLENT GUITAR WORK IN IT AND IS NEARLY 10 MINUTES LONG.

THE ENTIRE CD IS EXCELLENT FROM BEGINNING TO END, BUT ONE THING THAT STOOD OUT FOR ME WAS DURING THE PERFORMANCE OF "FREEBIRD" DURING THE EARLY EASY GUITAR PART, RONNIE TELLS GARY TO PLAY THIS ONE FOR BERRY (BERRY OAKLEY OF THE EARLY ALLMAN BROTHERS WHO WAS KILLED IN A MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT JUST LIKE DUANE ALLMAN).

THIS IS A GREAT ONE FOLKS!!! AND I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!!!.

A great, tough live album
Thirteen of these fourteen songs were recorded on August 21, 1976, during Lynyrd Skynyrd's appearance at Knebworth House, and while I don't think it's a better live album than "One More From The Road", it is certainly just as good. This soundtrack is really a live album, and a great one at that.
The band sounds tight, but very loud, very brash, and very gritty, significantly more so than on their studio recordings. The opening performance of "Workin' for MCA" grinds and swaggers like you won't believe, and it's followed by equally powerful renditions of "I Ain't The One", "Whiskey Rock-a-Roller", and the thumping riff-rocker "Saturday Night Special" with its not very redneck-like anti-gun-sentiments.

The sound quality is very good, just fuzzy enough for this to sound like an authentic concert recording, and Ronnie van Zant is magnificent.
So, for that matter, are guitarists Gary Rossington, Steve Gaines and Allen Collins. "Searching" is normally one of my least favorite Skynyrd numbers, but even that one really smokes. And it's all due to the amazing power and cohesion of the entire band. . . they just click, locking into the groove like a train going down the track (or some other tired clich�).

Most of these songs were on "One More From The Road", but "That Smell", and "What's Your Name" made their live debut here. It's not the greatest "That Smell" ever, but it's good, and it's followed by a high-octane "Gimme Three Steps" which pretty much just epitomizes Southern rock n' roll! And the boyz do a fun, up-tempo rock n' roll-ish take on Jimmie Rodgers' ancient "T For Texas (Blue Yodel #1)".

The sound quality is good, it's not ice-pick sharp, but all the more authentic and "live" sounding for it.
I don't love the elongated guitar break on "Free Bird". . . such a bunch of great guitarists should've been able to come up with something better than a couple of minutes of triads. But that's pretty much all I have to complain about. Great, great renditions of most of Skynyrd's best songs, including a hard-hitting "Sweet Home Alabama", a tremendous live "feel", and a band at the very top of their game. It's not Bob Dylan (I love Bob Dylan), but it's great nonetheless.
Very highly recommended!.

Like listening to the movie in your car
The DAY I watched it, I went and ordered Freebird the CD. Well, I got Freebird the Movie for my birthday. The inclusion of That Smell and What's Your Name live is simply incredible. Plus, Knebworth was one of Skynyrd's most inspired moments (who says England is better than the US musically?). Missing from this CD are Gimme Back My Bullets and Cry For the Bad Man, most likely since those were both already released on the re-issue of Gimme Back My Bullets. If you are a Skynyrd fan, this is really the second live CD you can get. Order it today!.

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