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Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping

Release date:April 15, 1974

Genre: Southern Rock

"Second Helping" is a 1974 album by "Lynyrd Skynyrd". It was the band's second album, and featured its biggest hit single, "Sweet Home Alabama", an answer song to Neil Young's "Alabama" and "Southern Man".
The song reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1974, and became a rock radio staple and a song you couldn't go without hearing if you lived anywhere near the south.
"Don't Ask Me No Questions" shows a close resemblance to "Gimme Three Steps" while "I Need You" is almost the perfect mix between "Tuesday's Gone" and "Simple Man". Also, "Call Me the Breeze", "Workin' for MCA", "The Ballad of Curtis Loew" and "The Needle and the Spoon" continue Skynyrd's excellence in southern rock while "Swamp Music" may be a little, well...swampy....
This was the first "Lynyrd Skynyrd" album to feature the band's trademark triple guitar attack.
Sticking with producer Al Kooper (who, after all, discovered them), the group turned out a record that replicated all the strengths of the original, but was a little tighter and a little more professional.
The album reached #12 on the Billboard album charts. It was certified Gold on 9/20/1974, Platinum and 2x Platinum on 7/21/1987 by the R.I.A.A.

1. Sweet Home Alabama
2. I Need You
3. Don't Ask Me No Questions
4. Workin' For MCA
5. The Ballad Of Curtis Loew
6. Swamp Music
7. The Needle And The Spoon
8. Call Me The Breeze

• Ronnie Van Zant - Lead Vocals
• Gary Rossington - Gibson Les Paul Guitar, Rhythm and Acoustic Guitar on "Sweet Home Alabama"
• Allen Collins - Gibson Firebird Guitar
• Ed King - Fender Stratocaster Guitar, Slide Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Bass on "I Need You"
• Billy Powell - keyboards, piano on "Sweet Home Alabama"
• Leon Wilkeson - Gibson Thunderbird Bass
• Bob Burns - Drums except "I Need You"

The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Release date:23 April 1971

Genre: Rock

"Sticky Fingers" is the ninth British and eleventh American studio album,released in April 1971.
The album was the first of the "Rolling Stones" albums to make #1 on both sides of the Atlantic and in many other countries around the globe.
It was a long time in the recording, as was alluded to on the cover – ‘and everyone else who has had the patience to sit thru this for two million hours.
It's a weary, drug-laden album (well over half the songs explicitly mention drug use, while the others merely allude to it) that never fades away, but it barely keeps afloat.
It is the band's first album of the 1970s and its first release on the band's newly-formed label, Rolling Stones Records, after having been contracted since 1963 with Decca Records in the UK and London Records in the US.
It is also Mick Taylor's first full-length appearance on a "Rolling Stones" album, and the first not to feature any contributions from founding guitarist Brian Jones.
In 2003, "Sticky Fingers" was listed as #63 on Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

1. Brown Sugar
2. Sway
3. Wild Horses
4. Can't You Hear Me Knocking
5. You Gotta Move
6. Bitch
7. I Got The Blues
8. Sister Morphine
9. Dead Flowers
10. Moonlight Mile

• Mick Jagger – Lead Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitar, Percussion
• Keith Richards – Electric Guitar, 6 & 12 String Acoustic Guitar, Backing Vocals
• Mick Taylor – Electric, Acoustic and Slide Guitar
• Charlie Watts – Drums
• Bill Wyman – Bass Guitar, Electric Piano

Neil Young - Harvest

Neil Young - Harvest

Release date:February 14, 1972

Genre: Folk Rock

"Harvest" is the fourth solo album by "Neil Young", released on February 14, 1972.
It featured the London Symphony Orchestra on two tracks, while noted guests David Crosby, Graham Nash, Linda Ronstadt, Stephen Stills, and James Taylor contributed vocals.
"Heart of Gold" wrote in 1971 after he suffered a back injury that made it difficult for him to play the electric guitar, so on the "Harvest" tracks he played acoustic.
It topped the Billboard 200 album chart for two weeks, and spawned two hit singles, "Old Man", which peaked at #31 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "Heart of Gold", which peaked at #1. It was the best-selling album of 1972.

1. Out On The Weekend
2. Harvest
3. A Man Needs A Maid
4. Heart Of Gold
5. Are You Ready For The Country?
6. Old Man
7. There's A World
8. Alabama
9. The Needle And The Damage Done
10. Words (Between The Lines Of Age)

• Neil Young - Guitar, Piano, Harmonica, Vocal
• Ben Keith - Pedal Steel Guitar
• Jack Nitzsche - Piano, Slide Guitar
• Tim Drummond - Bass
• Kenny Buttrey - Drums
• John Harris - Piano
• Teddy Irwin - Guitar
• James McMahon - Piano
• James Taylor - Banjo-Guitar, Backing Vocal
• David Crosby, Graham Nash, Linda Ronstadt, Stephen Stills - Backing Vocals

Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick

Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick

Release date:10 March 1972

Genre: Progressive Rock

"Thick As A Brick" is a concept album, and the fifth studio album, by the English Progressive Rock band "Jethro Tull".
Its lyrics are built around a poem written by a fictitious boy, "Gerald Bostock" a.k.a. "Little Milton" (Ian Anderson himself). The album featured only one song, lasting nearly 45 minutes.
"Thick As A brick" is a phrase meaning stubbornly dumb, as one's head is so thick that no new thoughts can enter it. The song starts with Ian Anderson expressing his low expectations for his target ("I may make you feel but I can't make you think") before singing about class structures, conformity, and the rigid moralistic beliefs of the establishment that perpetuates it.
The song follows a young boy who sees two career paths: soldier and artist. He chooses the life of a soldier, just like his father. We see him assimilate into the society he once rebelled against, becoming just like his dad.
To accommodate the album on LP vinyl and cassette, the seamless track was split on both sides of the record.
The original LP was the best-sounding, best-engineered record Tull had ever released, easily capturing the shifting dynamics between the soft all-acoustic passages and the electric rock crescendos surrounding them.
It reached #1 on the US Billboard Pop Albums chart.

1. Thick As A Brick (Part I)
2. Thick As A Brick (Part II)

• Ian Anderson – Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Flute, Violin, Trumpet
• Martin Barre – Electric Guitar, Lute
• John Evan – Piano, Organ, Harpsichord
• Jeffrey Hammond (as "Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond") - Bass Guitar, Vocals
• Barriemore Barlow – Drums, Percussion, Timpani
• David Palmer – Brass And string Arrangements

Wishbone Ash - Argus

Wishbone Ash - Argus

Release date:April 28, 1972

Genre: Hard Rock

"Argus" is the third album by the Rock band "Wishbone Ash". It is the most popular "Wishbone Ash" album and widely considered the greatest by fans and reviewers.
It was named "Album of the Year" in the 1972 year-end issue of Sounds magazine. The album features a blend of progressive rock, folk, and hard rock, and is considered a landmark album in the progression of twin-lead guitar harmonization later adopted by bands such as "Thin Lizzy" and "Iron Maiden".
The sound engineer on "Argus" was Martin Birch, who also worked with "Deep Purple", later with "Iron Maiden" and other hard rock / heavy metal bands.
The album be recorded on 16 track tape (previous two were on 8 track).
John Tout of "Renaissance" played organ on Throw Down The Sword.
The bulk of the melodies and lyrics were provided by bassist / lead vocalist Martin Turner, although all members contributed to the song arrangements.
With the success of "Argus", the band also became one of the most popular live attractions of the day.

1. Time Was
2. Sometime World
3. Blowin' Free
4. The King Will Come
5. Leaf And Stream
6. Warrior
7. Throw Down The Sword

• Martin Turner – Bass, Vocals
• Andy Powell – Guitar, Vocals
• Ted Turner – Guitar, Vocals
• Steve Upton – Drums
• John Tout - Organ on "Throw Down The Sword"