Artist: LYNYRD SKYNYRD
Album: SKYNYRD’S FIRST AND... LAST (CD)

Release date: 1978
Media type: CD

Skynyrd's First And...Last was a album containing 1971 and 1972 collections. Considered by most fans as a "needed" Lynyrd Skynyrd album, as all the tracks are not available on the other studio recordings. Apart from compilation and live albums.

So named because this consists of Skynyrd's earliest recordings and was released after the tragic plane crash, thereby seeming to close the door on the band's career, Skynyrd's First and...Last is more than a simple historic curiosity, but not too much more. This music is more notable for being interesting -- in how it's possible to hear Ronnie VanZant coming into his own as a writer, or hearing future Blackfoot leader Ricky Medlocke's early songs -- than it is for being good, which it certainly is. Taken on its own, separated from the rest of the group's catalog, this would likely be seen as a great forgotten hard rock album from an obscure Southern outfit, but since Skynyrd went on to greater things, this winds up as a footnote -- enjoyable, yes, but not quite necessary.

Down South Jukin' - 2:12
Preacher's Daughter - 3:39
White Dove - 2:56
Was I Right Or Wrong - 5:21
Lend A Helpin' Hand - 4:24
Wino - 3:15
Comin' Home - 5:30
The Seasons - 4:09
Things Goin' On - 5:10