Gimme Back My Bullets [Remaster]

Performer: Lynyrd Skynyrd
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Lynyrd Skynyrd: Ronnie Van Zant (vocals); Allen Collins (acoustic, electric & 12-string guitars); Gary Rossington (acoustic, electric & slide guitars); Billy Powell (piano, organ, Clavinet, keyboards); Leon Wilkeson (bass, background vocals); Artimus Pyle (drums, tambourine, percussion). Additional personnel includes: Barry Harwood (dobro, mandolin); Lee Freeman (harmonica); The Honnicutts (background vocals). Producer: Tom Dowd. Reissue producer: Ron O'Brien. Studio tracks recorded at Capricorn Studios, Macon, Georgia and Record Plant, Los Angeles, California in 1975. Live tracks recorded at Bill Graham's Winterland, San Francisco, California on March 7, 1976. Includes liner notes by Ron O'Brien. Digitally remastered by Doug Schwartz (Audio Mechanics, Los Angeles, California). Personnel: Ronnie Van Zant (vocals); Gary Rossington (guitar, acoustic guitar, slide guitar); Allen Collins (guitar); Barry Harwood (dobro, mandolin); Lee Freeman (harp); Billy Powell (piano, Clavinet, organ, keyboards); Leon Wilkeson (Fender Rhodes piano, background vocals); Artimus Pyle (drums, tambourine, percussion). Audio Remasterer: Doug Schwartz. Audio Remixer: Doug Schwartz. Liner Note Author: Ron O'Brien. Recording information: Bill Graham's Winterland, San F (09/07/1975-03/07/1976); Capricorn Studios, Macon, GA (09/07/1975-03/07/1976); Record Plqant, LA, CA (09/07/1975-03/07/1976). Photographer: Moshe Brakha. Perhaps Lynyrd Skynyrd's most underrated album, 1976's GIMME BACK MY BULLETS was another inspired and consistent set from one of Southern rock's founding fathers. Like its predecessor, NUTHIN' FANCY, Skynyrd's fourth release didn't produce a hit single like its first couple of albums had, but there were several songs that subsequently became standards for the band. Highlights include the album-opening title track, which captures Skynyrd at their toughest, powered on by muscular guitar riffing courtesy of Gary Rossington and the late Allen Collins, as well as "Searching," the latter being included later in the year on ONE MORE FROM THE ROAD.

Mojo (Publisher) (p.118) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Singer Ronnie Van Zant's dualities were neatly encapsulated in two of the new songs: 'Double Trouble'...and 'All I Can Do Is Write About It'..."

During their 1970s heyday, Lynryd Skynyrd emerged as the preeminent practitioners of Southern rock. Their triple-guitar attack and country-tinged songs carved a permanent spot on the playlists of classic rock radio. Since its first release in 1973 their epic hit "Freebird" has received more airplay than anything this side of "Stairway to Heaven." The tragic deaths of visionary lead guitarist Steven Gaines and lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zandt in a 1977 plane crash cut down the band at its peak; but after parting ways for several years, the surviving members re-formed the group, with Van Zandt's little brother Johnny at the helm.

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