Lynyrd Skynyrd Turn It Up CD

Collection Of Songs From 90's.

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Johnny Van Zant (vocals); Rickey Medlocke, Hughie Thomasson (acoustic & slide guitars, guitar, background vocals); Gary Rossington (acoustic & slide guitars); Dale Krantz (background vocals).
Additional personnel: Ed King (acoustic guitar, guitar, mandolin); Randall Hall (guitar); Stuart Duncan (fiddle); John Catchings (cello); John Hobbs (Wurlitzer piano, Hammond B-3 organ); Randy Cutlip (keyboards); Bill Cuomo (synthesizer); Custer, Owen Hale (drums, percussion); Kenny Arnoff (drums); Tom Roady, Michael Cartellone (percussion); Kim Morrison, Jimmy Hall, Michael Lunn, Carol Chase, Vicki Hampton, Kimberly Fleming, Chris Eddy (background vocals).
Producers: Tom Dawd, Barry Beckett, Josh Leo, Ron Nevins.
Recorded between 1991 & 1999.
Personnel: Johnny Van Zant (vocals); Hughie Thomasson, Rick Medlocke (guitar, acoustic guitar, slide guitar, background vocals); Gary Rossington (guitar, acoustic guitar, slide guitar); Ed King (guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin); Randall Hall (guitar); Stuart Duncan (fiddle); John Catchings (cello); John Hobbs (Wurlitzer organ); Bill Cuomo (keyboards, synthesizer); Billy Powell (keyboards); Custer, Artimus Pyle, Owen Hale (drums, percussion); Michael Cartellone, Tom Roady (percussion); Debbie Davis, Chris Eddy, Dale Rossington, Jimmy Hall, Kim Morrison, Michael Lunn, Stefanie Bolton, Vicki Hampton, Susan Marshall, Carol Chase (background vocals).
It's easy to think of the latter-day Lynyrd Skynyrd as what it started out being, a tribute to the original Lynyrd Skynyrd. But while the band still plays "Free Bird" at every concert, it also released a series of five new studio albums during the 1990s, and all five sold well enough to reach the Billboard album charts, so there is an audience out there interested in hearing what the current lineup has to say for itself. Turn It Up! is a compilation drawn from those five '90s albums, Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991, The Last Rebel, Endangered Species, Twenty, and Edge of Forever. It reveals that the group hasn't always been original in its song titles ("Born to Run," "Smokestack Lightning," and "Travelin' Man" are all newly written songs). And even when performing those songs, Lynyrd Skynyrd is careful to hew to its familiar sound, heavy on multiple slide guitars. But this traditionalism works in the band's favor. All of the music features good ensemble playing and is worthy of the name Lynyrd Skynyrd. That said, the one irreplaceable element the '90s band lacks is what the original band lost in 1977 -- Ronnie VanZant. Brother Johnny VanZant has a similar voice, but nobody writes songs like Ronnie VanZant, and it's the absence of that singular viewpoint that keeps this new music from comparing favorably to the old. ~ William Ruhlmann