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Lynyrd Skynyrd - God & Guns Audio CD

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Lynyrd Skynyrd Band: Lynyrd Skynyrd
Title: God & Guns
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Release Date: 2009-09-29
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Still unbroken 2: Simple Life 3: Little Thing Called You 4: Southern Ways 5: Skynyrd Nation 6: Unwrite That Song 7: Floyd 8: That Ain't My America 9: Comin' Back For More 10: God & Guns 11: Storm 12: Gifted Hands 13: Bang Bang 14: Raining In My Heartland 15: Hobo Kinda Man 16: Red White and Blue (Live) 17: Call Me The Breeze (Live) 18: Sweet Home Alabama (Live)

pidge
a few of the cuts remind you of the good ol days, and some not so much
sometimes filling someone elses shoes just isn't easy. . .
not bad if your sitting around drinking beer with the gang.


Rockin' and still PATRIOTS!!!
Still sounding like they should and I know Ronnie has a big old grin looking down on the boys with this set'

See ya'. The boys still crankin' out that good old boo-gee-woo-geee, be sure to get the two cd set if it's still available, well worth the price of admission.


Godawful Songs and Lyrics
After all that this band has been through, you want them to make a new disc of original material that is within shouting distance of any of the classic 70's discs. It really is a shame. Unfortunately, this disc is,IMHO, the nadir of their career. The songs sound all the same, with a metal-lite generic sheen that sounds like a thousand bar bands across the USA. The lyrics sound like focus-group slogans designed to incite the beer swilling goobers at whatever state fair they're playing at to yell "SKIN-NERD" and tongue-kiss their fat girlfriends. The worst example would be the song Skynyrd Nation. And the whole "I want it to be the way it used to be" vibe is naive and lame. I can imagine everybody standing out at the T-shirt stand until they hear the opening chords of Free Bird and thus escaping the playing of any of these new songs. And Johnny V. , to put it plainly, SUCKS!!! You are not Ronnie, so stop trying to be! I would rather hear a Rickey Medlocke solo disc than another one as bad as this one. . . . . .


God and Guns and Lynyrd Skynyrd
There have been many personel changes and you can't tell me this isn't one of the most unlucky bands around but they have kept the name alive, they did reform as a tribute to the original band, they did reform and they have produced one hell of an album. We have two 1 star reviews, not on the CD but complaining this is not Skynyrd - I say, get over it!

I also grew up on the Skynyrd diet, loved the music and thought it died in '77 but that was over 30 years ago and those that have said the band has matured and evolved are right.

Yes the music has changed, yes country has caught up with it but lets face it country music now is more like southern rock than country music ever was back in the seventies so I guess that says everything.

Hey it's 29 years since I last saw Skynyrd live and I know I have matured in that time so why shouldn't the music? I loved Skynyrd back in the 70s, I thought I wouldn't buy another Skynyrd album but through the music of the Rossington Collins Band, the Tribute Tour (where I cringed at the re-recording of traditional classics) to a band today keeping the music and legend alive, people should take these guys as they come, listen to the music as it is today and like the band have done, move on!

God and Guns is an album for today from a bunch of guys that have earned the rights to being Lynyrd Skynyrd. From the heavy entry of Still Unbroken, sounding a little bit like Nickleback through a range of southern classics to the final Gifted Hands, playing the bird for free, this is great southern music and if you think it smacks of country, let me ask where today's country comes from, the American South.

If you can't get over Skynyrd in the 70's don't buy this CD but honestly, you don't know what you're missing. .


god & guns
a lot more country than their music in the past. this is a good listen. I love Skynyrd & have just about all that they have out.


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