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Second Helping is the second studio album by Lynyrd Skynyrd, released April 15, 1974. It features the band's biggest hit single, "Sweet Home Alabama," an answer song to Neil Young's "Alabama" and "Southern Man",[2] which reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1974, as well as drummer Bob Burns' final recordings.

Second Helping
Studio album by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Released	April 15, 1974
Recorded	June 1973 (track 1) January 1974
Studio	Studio One, Doraville, Georgia (track 1) Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles, California
Genre	Southern rock blues rock boogie rock hard rock[1]
Length	37:15
Label	Sounds of the South MCA
Producer	Al Kooper
Lynyrd Skynyrd chronology
(Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) (1973) Second Helping (1974) Nuthin' Fancy (1975)
Singles from Second Helping
"Don't Ask Me No Questions" Released: April 1974 "Sweet Home Alabama" Released: June 24, 1974

Second Helping reached #12 on the Billboard album charts. The RIAA certified it Gold on September 20, 1974, and Double Platinum on July 21, 1987.[3]

Background

After the success of their debut album, (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd), Lynyrd Skynyrd's fan base continued to grow rapidly throughout 1973, largely due to their opening slot on the Who's Quadrophenia tour in the United States. Second Helping features King, Collins and Rossington all collaborating with Ronnie Van Zant on the songwriting, and cemented the band's breakthrough.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
Christgau's Record Guide	A−[5]
Creem	B−[6]
Rolling Stone	(favourable)[7]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[8]
MusicHound	4/5[8]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[8]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide	[1]
Tom Hull	B−[9]

Reviewing for Rolling Stone in 1974, Gordon Fletcher said Lynyrd Skynyrd performs a consistent style of Southern music-influenced blues rock similar to the Allman Brothers Band but lacks that group's "sophistication and professionalism. If a song doesn’t feel right to the Brothers, they work on it until it does; if it isn’t right to Lynyrd Skynyrd, they are more likely to crank up their amps and blast their way through the bottleneck." Fletcher concluded that Second Helping is distinct from (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) "only by a certain mellowing out that indicates they may eventually acquire a level of savoirfaire to realize their many capabilities".[7] Robert Christgau was also lukewarm in Creem, saying Lynyrd Skynyrd is "still a substantial, tasteful band, but I have a hunch they blew their best stuff on the first platter."[6]

Christgau warmed to the album later, however, reappraising it in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981); he observed "infectious putdowns of rock businessmen, rock journalists, and heroin", and "great formula" in general: "When it rocks, three guitarists and a keyboard player pile elementary riffs and feedback noises into dense combinations broken by preplanned solos, while at quieter moments the spare vocabulary of the best Southern folk music is evoked or just plain duplicated."[5] In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine said Second Helping "replicated all the strengths" of the first album's expert Southern rock "but was a little tighter and a little more professional."[4] Houston Press named it in #2 on its list "Five Essential Boogie-Rock Albums."[10]

Track listing

• Sides one and two were combined as tracks 1–8 on CD reissues.

• Track 9 previously released as the band's lead single in April 1974
• Track 10 is previously unreleased
• Track 11 previously released on Legend

Personnel

Lynyrd Skynyrd

• Ronnie Van Zant – lead vocals
• Gary Rossington – guitar
• Allen Collins – guitar
• Ed King – guitar, backing vocals, bass on "I Need You" and "Don't Ask Me No Questions"
• Leon Wilkeson – bass (all tracks except "I Need You" and "Don't Ask Me No Questions"), backing vocals
• Bob Burns – drums, except "I Need You"
• Billy Powell – keyboards

Additional personnel

• Mike Porter – drums on "I Need You"
• Merry Clayton, Clydie King, Sherlie Matthews – background vocals on "Sweet Home Alabama"
• Bobby Keys, Trevor Lawrence and Steve Madaio – horns on "Don't Ask Me No Questions" and "Call Me the Breeze"
• Al Kooper – backing vocals, piano on "Don't Ask Me No Questions" and "The Ballad of Curtis Loew"

Charts

Chart (1974)	Peak position
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[11]	9
US Billboard 200[12]	12

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[3]	2× Platinum	2,000,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

External links

• Second Helping at Discogs (list of releases)

На других языках

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[de] Second Helping

Second Helping ist das zweite Album von Lynyrd Skynyrd und erschien im Frühjahr 1974. Es enthält den bekannten Hit Sweet Home Alabama, der Platz 8 der amerikanischen Billboard Hot 100 Charts erreichte. Second Helping stieg bis auf Platz 12 der amerikanischen Billboard Albumcharts[5] und wurde von der Recording Industry Association of America im September 1974 mit Gold und im Juli 1987 mit Doppel-Platin ausgezeichnet.[6] Vor den Aufnahmen zu diesem Album stieß der Bassist Leon Wilkeson wieder zur Band, sodass Ed King an die Gitarre wechseln konnte. Daher zeigte sich hier erstmals der für Lynyrd Skynyrd typische Einsatz von drei Gitarren. Sweet Home Alabama stammt als einziges Lied von einer früheren Aufnahmesession und wurde bewusst von der Band für das zweite Album als Single aufbewahrt.[7] Da Al Kooper und MCA Don’t Ask Me No Questions als Single favorisierten, erreichte Ronnie Van Zant eine Übereinkunft, dass, falls sich nicht der erwartete Erfolg einstellen würde, die darauf folgende Single Sweet Home Alabama wird.[8] Al Kooper produzierte Second Helping ebenso wie Lynyrd Skynyrds Debütalbum für sein Label Sounds of the South, dass er 1974 an MCA verkaufte.[9][10][11]

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- [en] Second Helping

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[es] Second Helping

Second Helping es el segundo álbum de estudio del grupo de rock sureño Lynyrd Skynyrd que salió a la venta el 15 de abril de 1974. Fue el primer disco del grupo en el que se usaron tres guitarras.[1][2]

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[ru] Second Helping

Second Helping  (с англ. — «Вторая порция») — второй студийный альбом американской рок-группы Lynyrd Skynyrd, вышедший в 1974 году. Это первый альбом группы, продемонстрировавший её фирменное созвучие трёх соло-гитар. «Sweet Home Alabama» — самая известная композиция группы, достигла 8-й строчки в Billboard Hot 100[3]. Сам же альбом достиг 12-й позиции.

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