Second Helping

Second Helping

Track Listings

1. Sweet Home Alabama

2. I Need You

3. Don't Ask Me No Questions

4. Workin' for MCA

5. Ballad of Curtis Loew

6. Swamp Music

7. Needle and the Spoon

8. Call Me the Breeze

9. Don't Ask Me No Questions [Single Version][*]

10. Was I Right or Wrong [*][Demo Version]

11. Take Your Time [#][*]

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com essential recording
With staples such as "Sweet Home Alabama," "Workin' for MCA," and the J.J. Cale-penned "Call Me the Breeze," Skynyrd's second captures the Jacksonville, Florida, band at the height of its powers, coming off the success of "Free Bird" and "Gimme Three Steps" from their 1973 debut. Backed by a tight rhythm section and the mighty three-guitar attack of Allen Collins, Ed King, and Gary Rossington, singer Ronnie Van Zant (credited in the album notes for "Vocals, J&B") turns in a legendary performance on the urgent blues ballad "I Need You," the cautionary "The Needle and the Spoon," and "The Ballad of Curtis Loew," the story of a young white boy sitting at the feet of an old black Dobro master. Along with Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd and One More from the Road, Second Helping remains Skynyrd's finest hour. --James Rotondi

From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD
When these Jacksonville hard rockers took a softer approach (as on this 1974 album's "I Need You"), an unsentimental melancholy pervaded their music that Delta blues players would have understood. When vocalist Ronnie Van Zant and the three guitarists lead fiery rebel charges, their jubilation- intertwined with sad-hearted impulses or not-is built of bluesy voicings. -- © Frank John Hadley 1993

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