Old Time Greats


Old Time Greats is a two-disc compilation album by American rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd. Released in 1997, it documents the original 1970s run of the band before the 1977 Convair 240 crash that killed Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary, and co-pilot William Gray.
The album is released by Repertoire Records out of Hamburg, Germany. It can only be found in the United States as an import.

Track listing

The tracks are from 1971 to 1977. The first four tracks on CD 1 are early recordings from 1971–72 that were originally later released on Best of the Rest in 1982 and Skynyrd's First and... Last from 1978 respectively. Those songs were recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio for what was originally planned to be the band's shelved debut album, making (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) their official debut. The remaining tracks on the album are in chronological order starting with songs from in 1973 and concludes with songs from Street Survivors in 1977.

Disc one

  1. "I've Been Your Fool" – 4:28
  2. "Comin' Home" – 5:30
  3. "Down South Jukin'" – 2:14
  4. "White Dove" – 2:58
  5. "I Ain't the One" – 3:54
  6. "Tuesday's Gone" – 7:33
  7. "Gimme Three Steps" – 4:30
  8. "Simple Man" – 5:57
  9. "Poison Whiskey" – 3:12
  10. "Free Bird" – 9:11
  11. "Sweet Home Alabama" – 4:45
  12. "Don't Ask Me No Questions" – 3:26
  13. "Workin' for MCA" – 4:49
  14. "Swamp Music" – 3:33
  15. "The Needle and the Spoon" – 3:52

Disc two

  1. "Call Me the Breeze" – 5:08
  2. "Saturday Night Special" – 5:09
  3. "Railroad Song" – 4:15
  4. "I'm a Country Boy" – 4:26
  5. "On the Hunt" – 5:27
  6. "Whiskey Rock-a-Roller" – 4:20
  7. "Gimme Back My Bullets" – 3:29
  8. " Same Old Blues" – 4:09
  9. "Double Trouble" – 2:50
  10. "Searchin'" – 3:18
  11. "Cry for the Bad Man" – 4:50
  12. "What's Your Name?" – 3:33
  13. "That Smell" – 5:48
  14. "I Know a Little" – 3:28
  15. "You Got That Right" – 3:47