Artist: LYNYRD SKYNYRD
Album: SECOND HELPING VINYL (LP)

Release date: 1974
EAN/UPS: 00600753550175
Media type: LP

Second Helping is a 1974 album by Lynyrd Skynyrd. It was the band's second album, and featured their biggest hit single, "Sweet Home Alabama", an answer song to Neil Young's "Southern Man" and "Alabama". The song reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1974. Second Helping also featured such songs as "The Ballad Of Curtis Lowe" and cover "Call Me The Breeze," which includes an acclaimed piano solo.

The album reached #12 on the Billboard Album charts, eventually becoming 3x Platinum.

SIDE A:

"Sweet Home Alabama" (Ed King / Gary Rossington / Ronnie Van Zant) – 4:42
"I Need You" (Ed King / Gary Rossington / Ronnie Van Zant) – 6:54
"Don't Ask Me No Questions" (Gary Rossington / Ronnie Van Zant) – 3:24
"Workin' For MCA" (Ed King / Ronnie Van Zant) – 4:46

SIDE B:

"The Ballad Of Curtis Loew" (Allen Collins / Ronnie Van Zant) – 4:45
"Swamp Music" (Ed King / Ronnie Van Zant) – 3:29
"The Needle And The Spoon" (Allen Collins / Ronnie Van Zant) – 3:52
"Call Me The Breeze" (J.J.Cale) – 5:23


LINE-UP:

Ronnie Van Zant - lead & backing vocals, J&B
Gary Rossington - Gibson Les Paul - guitar
Allen Collins - Gibson Firebird - guitar
Ed King - Fender Stratocaster - guitar, slide guitar, rhythm & bass on "I Need You"
Billy Powell - keyboards
Leon Wilkeson - Gibson Thunderbird - bass
Bob Burns - drums except '"I Need You"

Additional:
Mike Porter - drums on "I Need You"
Clydie King - background vocals on "Sweet Home Alabama"
Merry Clayton & Friends - background vocals on "Sweet Home Alabama"
Bobby Keys, Trewor Lawrence & Steve Madiao - horns on "Don't Ask..." & "Call Me The Breeze"
Al Kooper - backing vocals, piano on "Don't Ask..." & "The Ballad Of Curtis Loew", also producer