Lynyrd SkynyrdBest Lynyrd Skynyrd Albums Ranked

Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd

pastemagazine

9.6

“The Jacksonville sextet’s debut album was a Southern rock joint potent with fire, whiskey, and big-screen riffs. The songs they cooked up were ragged and muscular, displaying a convincing body of country-fried gravitas.”

The Last Rebel

rollingstone

8.0

“Southern rock reached its peak popularity during the Carter years but stopped on a dime in the Eighties. Now it’s back in full force just as another Southern Democrat settles into the White House. Lynyrd Skynyrd recaptures its trademark hard-rocking sound with The Last Rebel. The Kentucky Headhunters reunite with old friends for a third […]”

Street Survivors

rollingstone

7.0

“Three days after the release of Street Survivors, in 1977, Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Ronnie VanZant and guitarist Steve Gaines died in a plane crash that severelyinjured the rest of the band members. But even without the addedresonance of tragedy, the album’s second track, "That Smell," would havestood out in the band’s catalog: It bites the […]”

Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991

rollingstone

6.0

“Since everything from psychedelia to disco has eventually come back to haunt us, it should come as no surprise that one of the more popular genres of the Seventies, Southern rock, seems to be rearing its boogieing little head faster than you can say twin — make that triple — guitar solos. After all, it […]”

Vicious Cycle

rollingstone

2.0

“Seventies Southern-rock giants Lynyrd Skynyrd continue to defy reality with their ongoing career: Now down to only two original members, Skynyrd have kept rolling as a live act with the late Ronnie Van Zandt’s sound-alike little brother Johnny in front, and have been replenished over the years by veterans of bands such as the Outlaws, […]”