The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd

Infobox Album|
Name = The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Lynyrd Skynyrd


Released = August 25, 1998
Recorded = 1971 - 1977
Genre = Southern rock
Length = 2:10:47
Label = MCA Records
Producer =
Reviews =
* Allmusic (3/5) [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3d9gs33ia3zg link]
Last album = "Lynyrd Skynyrd"
(1991)
This album = "The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd"
(1998)
Next album = "All Time Greatest Hits"
(2000)Infobox Album|
Name = Gold
Type = Compilation
Artist = Lynyrd Skynyrd


Released = August 8, 2006
Label = Universal/Geffen
Reviews =
* Allmusic (4/5) [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:agy67ub050jd link]

"The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd", reissued as "Gold", is a two-disc compilation of Lynyrd Skynyrd in the peak years of its classic lineup (1971-1977).

* In 1998, it was released as "The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd" by MCA.
* In 2006, it was re-released as "Gold" by Geffen (which had absorbed MCA), with identical content and a slightly different cover.

Track listing

Disc 1

#"Sweet Home Alabama" – 4:45
#"I Ain't the One" – 3:54
#"Was I Right or Wrong" – 5:24
#"Gimme Three Steps" – 4:31
#"Workin' for MCA" – 4:48
#"Simple Man" – 5:58
#"Swamp Music" – 3:32
#"The Ballad of Curtis Loew" – 4:52
#"Saturday Night Special" – 5:12
#"Mr. Banker" – 5:22
#"Comin' Home [original version] " – 5:30
#"Call Me the Breeze" – 5:09
#"Free Bird" – 9:10

Disc 2

#"What's Your Name" – 3:33
#"Whiskey Rock-A-Roller (live)" – 4:16
#"Tuesday's Gone" – 7:34
#"Double Trouble" – 2:50
#"I Know a Little" – 3:29
#"Four Walls of Raiford" – 4:14
#"I Never Dreamed" – 5:21
#"Gimme Back My Bullets (live)" – 3:42
#"You Got That Right" – 3:47
#"All I Can Do Is Write About It (acoustic version)" – 4:24
#"That Smell" – 5:51
#"Free Bird (live)" – 13:41