ReviewThis is NOT the band you know and love. Sure, it's the same people, but the sound here is drastically different than that of the band's other releases. Don Barnes, who sang most of the band's biggest hits, only does backing vocals on this album. Donnie Van Zant, the brother of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Ronnie Van Zant, does the lead vocals on this release. Van Zant's vocal stylings are certainly different from those used by Barnes, but they are no less excellent (it wouldn't be until the band's 1979 effort that the two would begin to share vocal duties.) His lead vocals, combined with the fact that the band hadn't, for lack of a better term, "sold out" yet, make this a straight-up southern rock album, which is certainly more reminiscent of classic Lynyrd Skynyrd than the .38 Special that fans of the band have come to know and love. That's not to say this isn't an excellent album, though. Despite being radically different from their later releases, this is a GREAT album, and a severely underrated one, too.
