Recycled

This is probably the 10th compilation of LS to come out in the last few years. Like most (but not all), this one offers nothing unusual.

Lifting tracks from their early albums (up to "Street Survivors"), this album has lost 2 stars, 1 for each of the following reasons:

1) for mis-representing its content (this is NOT Amazon.com's fault: they just list what's on the back panel of the CD): tracks 2,3 and 8, listed as "original versions" (i.e. the MUSCLE SHOALS sessions) are in fact the regular album versions; if you want the older versions, buy the "Skynyrd's First" CD on MCA.

2) for including some of their more "off-side" tracks, like "I'm A Country Boy", "Honky Tonk Night Time Man" and "Railroad Song".

Even though the disc is packed with music, some of that stuff could have been (easily!) left out to include other classics (like "Freebird", "Double Trouble" or "You Got That Right") of that vintage era.