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“Free Bird” (often spelled “Freebird”, including by the band itself on the cover of the single (right)) is a song by the American southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. It was first featured on the band’s debut album in 1973, and has been included on subsequent albums released by the...
the reflective balladry of “Tuesday’s Gone” and “Gimme Three Steps”, in which the narrator does his damnedest to talk his way out of a bar brawl. Skynyrd found swift success, but 1974’s Second Helping really made them rock stars via “Sweet Home Alabama” and “Free Bird”, the...
Skynyrd's debut album includes all of the band's hallmarks, albeit in primal form at times. There's multi-guitar attacks (the end of "Free Bird" is still a thrill), wistful reflection ("Tuesday's Gone"), humor ("Gimme Three Steps") and the sort of down-home philosophizing that both...
Skynyrd's debut album includes all of the band's hallmarks, albeit in primal form at times. There's multi-guitar attacks (the end of "Free Bird" is still a thrill), wistful reflection ("Tuesday's Gone"), humor ("Gimme Three Steps") and the sort of down-home philosophizing that both...
Skynyrd's debut album includes all of the band's hallmarks, albeit in primal form at times. There's multi-guitar attacks (the end of "Free Bird" is still a thrill), wistful reflection ("Tuesday's Gone"), humor ("Gimme Three Steps") and the sort of down-home philosophizing that both...
Skynyrd's debut album includes all of the band's hallmarks, albeit in primal form at times. There's multi-guitar attacks (the end of "Free Bird" is still a thrill), wistful reflection ("Tuesday's Gone"), humor ("Gimme Three Steps") and the sort of down-home philosophizing that both...
Skynyrd's debut album includes all of the band's hallmarks, albeit in primal form at times. There's multi-guitar attacks (the end of "Free Bird" is still a thrill), wistful reflection ("Tuesday's Gone"), humor ("Gimme Three Steps") and the sort of down-home philosophizing that both...
Free Bird and an opening slot on the Whos 1973 Quadrophenia tour gave Lynyrd Skynyrd a devoted following, which helped their second album, 1974s Second Helping, become its breakthrough hit. Featuring the hit single Sweet Home Alabama — a response to Neil Youngs Southern Man — Second Helping...
Skynyrd's debut album includes all of the band's hallmarks, albeit in primal form at times. There's multi-guitar attacks (the end of "Free Bird" is still a thrill), wistful reflection ("Tuesday's Gone"), humor ("Gimme Three Steps") and the sort of down-home philosophizing that both...