The Bottom Line
- A few really good interpretations of the originals
- Former Skynyrd members do songs justice
- Some artists try to imitate the original sound
- Some songs not well matched to artists
Description
- Release date: March 13, 2007
- Track List and Audio Samples
Featured Artists:
- Molly Hatchet with Charlie Daniels
- Outlaws, featuring Hughie Thomasson
- Artimus Pyle
- Ed King
- The Original Honkettes
- Great White
- Canned Heat
- Blackfoot, featuring Rickey Medlocke
- Walter Trout
- Jim Dandy's Black Oak Arkansas
- Pat Travers
- Dangerous Toys
- Atlanta Rhythm Section
- Rick Derringer
- Sky Saxon (The Seeds)
- Joey Covington (Jefferson Airplane)
Guide Review - An All-Star Tribute To Lynyrd Skynyrd
Some of the artists on this CD try, but fail, to sound like the original. Others try, with varying degrees of success, to give their own interpretation to signature Skynyrd songs.
Hits:
With former Skynyrd members Ed King on slide guitar, Artimus Pyle on drums, and The Original Honkettes (John and Jo Jo Billingsley-White, Leslie Hawkins) on backing vocals, "Double Trouble"'s musicality is true to the original, and blends well with Thane Shearon's fresh vocal interpretation.Blackfoot's Rickey Medlocke wrote and did the lead vocal on the original version of "Seasons," one of the band's few slow songs. He still does it nicely in this century.
"That Smell" and "What's Your Name" are skillfully interpreted by Canned Heat and Jim Dandy's Black Oak Arkansas, respectively.
Misses:
Hughie Thomasson does background vocals in the current iteration of the band, but the Outlaws version of "Sweet Home Alabama" falls well short of doing justice to the original.Walter Trout and Rick Derringer are excellent guitarists, but their vocal interpretations of "Gimme Three Steps" (Trout) and "You Got That Right" (Derringer) are somewhat lacking.
"Swamp Music" with Jefferson Airplane's Joey Covington and Sky Saxon of The Seeds simply doesn't work done psychedelic style.
Overall, there are more hits than misses, and the CD is not a bad choice for fans of the "real" Lynyrd Skynyrd.
