Artist: JOHNNY VAN ZANT BAND
Album: NO MORE DIRTY DEALS REMASTERED & RELOADED (CD)

Year: 1980/ 2006
Media type: CD

WHEN IT comes to Southern Rock, there can surely be no finer credentials than the name Van Zant. Of course, the most noted member of the clan was, and always will be, Ronnie (erstwhile singer with the hallowed Lynyrd Skynyrd), and encouraged by their big bro’s uncompromising talent, younger siblings Donnie and Johnny were also to hitch their wagon to the burgeoning Southern scene – the former as frontman with .38 Special and latter with his own outfit, the Johnny Van Zant Band. Signed in 1980 to Polydor Records US, Johnny was quick to team up with legendary producer and original Skynyrd A&R man Al Kooper, and the result was the blistering debut you have here. Tapping freely into his Southern roots, not to mention Skynyrd’s fiery guitar-fuelled legacy, Johnny’s music proved a hot burrito of fuel-injected riffing (courtesy of twin lead guitarists Robbie Gay & Eric Lundgren) plus the kind of down home back porch rocking reminiscent of the best works of Skynyrd, .38 Special, Marshall Tucker and The Allman Brothers Band. Look out for ‘Standing In The Darkness’, a poignant and touching outing based upon a poem that many have taken to be a tribute to the late Ronnie Van Zant; surely one of the finest closing tracks on any Southern Rock album… 24-bit remastering from original source tapes, 4,000 word story of the making of 'No More Dirty Deals' all spread out over a super fold out poster style booklet.

TRACKLIST:

01 'No More Dirty Deals'
02 'Coming Home'
03 '634-5789'
04 'Put My Trust In You'
05 'Only The Strong Survive'
06 'Hard Luck Story',
07 Stand Your Ground'
08 'Never Too Late'
09 'Keep On Rollin''
10 'Standing In The Darkness'