LYNYRD SKYNYRD release a CD/DVD set called ‘Live From Freedom Hall’ on 21st June through Loud & Proud/Roadrunner Records.
Comprising both the audio and video of their performance at Freedom Hall, Louisville, Kentucky on 15th June 2007, the show features some of the classic band’s best-known tracks. The recorded performance is also the last to feature founding member/keyboardist Billy Powell and longtime bassist, Ean Evans who sadly passed away in 2009, during the recording of the band’s last studio album, ‘God & Guns’.
Full tracklisting runs as follows:
Travelin’ Man / Workin’ / What’s Your Name / That Smell / Simple Man / Down South Jukin’ / The Needle And The Spoon / The Ballad Of Curtis Loew / Gimme Back My Bullets / Tuesday’s Gone / Red White And Blue / Gimme Three Steps / Call Me The Breeze / Sweet Home Alabama / Free Bird.
2009 marked a key point in Lynyrd Skynyrd’s storied career. The band had a recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction, their American rock anthem “Sweet Home Alabama” passed the 2 million mark in downloaded ringtones in the US and last summer, the band co-headlined one of the most successful US tours of the year with their good friend, Kid Rock, before coming to these shores for a run that culminated in a sold-out show at London’s Hammersmith Apollo. With a catalogue of over 60 albums and sales beyond 30 million units, Lynyrd Skynyrd remain a musical force to be reckoned with and a beacon for the Southern Rock genre. Beyond the tragedy, the history, the classic songs, ultimately, Lynyrd Skynyrd is about an indomitable will. About survival of spirit; unbowed, uniquely American, stubbornly resolute.
