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Gimme Back My Bullets

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Back My Bullets Audio CD

A fair review of the Lynyrd Skynyrd "Gimme Back My Bullets" 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: Gimme Back My Bullets
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Release Date: 1999-08-03
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Gimme Back My Bullets 2: Every Mother's Son 3: Trust 4: I Got the Same Old Blues 5: Double Trouble 6: Roll Gypsy Roll 7: Searching 8: Cry for the Bad Man 9: All I Can Do Is Write About It 10: Gimme Back My Bullets [Live][#][*] 11: Cry for the Bad Man [Live][#][*]

Great songs, bad mix......
The LP had really bad sound, the CD remaster is better. Great Skynyrd sons!!!! However, it sounds like it was recorded in a big cardboard box. Well worth buying, even so!.

Lynyrd Skynryd "Gimme Back My Bullets" Another Early Classic Recording, This Time Produced by Tom Dowd!!!!
On this particular edition of this cd you get 11 total songs, including 2 bonus "live" tracks. Another Skynyrd Classic, this one produced by Tom Dowd, he was legendary for producing "Layla" with Duanne Allman & Eric Clapton. This Cd contains the classics: "Gimme Back My Bullets", "Every Mother's Son", "Trust", "Double Trouble", "Roll Gypsy Roll", "Searching", "Cry for the Bad Man", and "All I can do is Write About it". All the above songs are original Ronnie Van Zant & Lynyrd Skynyrd songs. This cd also contains a J. J. Cale song - "I Got the Same Old Blues".

The 2 bonus "live" songs are "Gimme Back My Bullets", & "Cry for the Bad Man". In the notes to this release, there is a note from Artimus Pyle acknowledging Lynyrd Skynyrd's "kin-ship" with the Marshall Tucker Band, and the Charlie Daniels Band. If you look at the picture on the back on the cd package, you can see where Artimus has drawned a "CDB Logo" in the sand. This is another required cd for any serious Lynyrd Skynyrd fan, and like I said before, I'm a fan to the bone!!! Thanks!!!!
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I ordered it on a Sunday and had it by the following Wednesday. I bought this CD for my husband for Christmas. I would recommend this site to everyone.

AN UNDERRATED SKYNYRD CLASSIC ! (amidst chaos and transition, Lynyrd Skynyrd rolls on)
Guitarist Ed King left the group during their Torture Tour prior to the recording sessions and had yet to be replaced by Steve Gaines. Lynyrd Skynyrd's Gimme Back My Bullets (1976) is the original band's one and only album with a two-guitar lineup, instead of the usual three. Mostly, it was Allen Collins who stepped up to the plate for this album and, along with Gary Rossington and Ronnie Van Zant, wrote this collection of solid southern rock songs that includes several Skynyrd classics (Collins co-wrote seven of the album's eight original songs). Collins and Rossington also handle the added guitar responsibilities with no problem.

The songs include some of Ronnie Van Zant's most personal lyrics. The heavy touring and hard partying seemed to bring out a weary need to escape the craziness and keep the greedy cut-throat metropolitan world that he didn't trust at bay.

Roll Gyspy Roll:
Riding on a Greyhound, countin' those white lines
Destination I don't know and I'm feelin' like I'm dyin'
Well, ten years on this road, my it took it's toll
But the man with the plan says the band's got to go

All I Can Do Is Write About It:
And Lord, I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song
I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord, take me and mine before that comes

The title track and Searching are the most recognizable songs on the album, and both have become classics that are essential to the Lynyrd Skynyrd legend. Double Trouble is a great rocking tune that keeps the Skynyrd swagger in tact.

Eleven times I've been busted, eleven times I've been to jail
Some of the times I been there, nobody could go my bail
Well it seems to me, Lord, that this ol' boy just don't fit
Well I can jump in a rosebush and come out smellin' like. . .

A cool and funky version of J. J. Cales' I Got The Same Old Blues is included, and Every Mothers Son, Trust and Cry For The Bad Man are solid rockers with lyrics that follow the generally disillusioned and defiant theme of the album. Everything here measures up to the Lynyrd Skynyrd standard.

Gimme Back My Bullets is a solid Skynyrd album even though it sold less than the other albums by the original lineup. Of course, any Lynyrd Skynyrd album with Ronnie Van Zant at the helm is a classic, and is essential to any Skynyrd collection. I wouldn't start a Lynyrd Skynyrd collection with this one, but I most certainly wouldn't leave it out, either. And you gotta love this album cover with the rowdy group lined up and defiantly drinking cans of Coors beer, too.

Give 'em hell, Skynyrd!

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More like four and a half, really
And many reviewers, professional and amateur, apparently consider it the original Skynyrd ensemble's "least great" album. "Bullets", Lynyrd Skynyrd's fourth album, wasn't a great succes back in 1976. Generic. Uninspired. Mediocre.
Not me, though. I think it's a wonderful, varied collection of songs, hard rockers, melodic slow and mid-tempo grooves, and effective ballads. . . better than "Street Survivors" and better, certainly, than "Nuthin' Fancy" as well.

I love the clanging pianos and the crunchy riffs, and with the exception of "Searching", which I've never really learned to love, I don't see a single clunker here. "Double Trouble" is a bit too predictable, but everything else is top-notch. "Trust" and the title track in particulat provide some tough, riff-driven hard rock, and songs like "Cry For The Bad Man" and J. J. Cale's "The Same Old Blues" groove along on a great combination of effective riffs and a supple rhythm section. Slower tunes like "Every Mother's Son" and the semi-acoustic country ballad "All I Can Do Is Write About It" are equally excellent, and "Every Mother's Son" in particular provide a terrific showcase for the talents of singer Ronnie van Zant.

You may well argue that a few of these songs seem more powerful and vibrant on the live "On More From The Road", which was recorded during the tour that Skynyrd undertook in support of "Bullets". And some live versions of "The Same Old Blues" do indeed outshine this one as well. But the songs certainly don't suck here either, and the two bonus tracks, previously unreleased live recordings of "Gimme Back My Bullets" and "Cry For The Bad Man", are a welcome addition, even if the live version of title track can't match the version found on "One More From The Road". The live "Bad Man" makes up for it.

Don't let negative or mediocre reviews scare you away from this album (and don't pay any attention to the otherwise excellent Allmusic guide either). Give it a try. There is a lot to love here.

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