Second Helping

Released: April 1974
Chart Peak: #12
Weeks Charted: 45
Certified Double Platinum: 7/21/87

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

Certainly one of the finest of the newer Southern rock bands, Lynyrd Skynyrd have put together a fine LP that is remarkably refreshing in a time when much of rock seems at a standstill. Mixing straight rock, blues and country-like sounds, the key to this band may well be that nobody overstates anything. Everything is kept in remarkably tasteful perspective, from the dual guitar leads of Allen Collins and Gary Rossington to the fine lead vocals of Ronnie Van Zant. A vast improvement over the first album and a tribute to the combination of skill and good taste. Best cuts: "Sweet Home Alabama," "I Need You," "The Ballad of Curtis Loew."

- Billboard, 1974.