Second Helping

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Second Helping is the second studio album by Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on 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",[1] which reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1974.

Second Helping reached No. 12 on the Billboard album charts. The RIAA certified it Gold on September 20, 1974, and Double Platinum on July 21, 1987.[2]

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 Ed King, Allen Collins, and Gary Rossington all collaborating with Ronnie Van Zant on the songwriting, and cemented the band's breakthrough.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStarStar[3]
Christgau's Record GuideA−[4]
CreemB−[5]
Rolling Stone(favourable)[6]
Encyclopedia of Popular MusicStarStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svg[7]
MusicHound Rock3.5/5[8]
The Rolling Stone Album GuideStarStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svg[9]
The New Rolling Stone Album GuideStarStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svg[10]
Tom HullB−[11]

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 their "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".[6]

Robert Christgau in Creem was also lukewarm, saying Lynyrd Skynyrd is "still a substantial, tasteful band, but I have a hunch they blew their best stuff on the first platter."[5] Christgau warmed to the album later, 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."[4]

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."[3] Houston Press placed it No. 2 on its list of "Five Essential Boogie-Rock Albums."[12]

Track listing

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

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

Personnel

Lynyrd Skynyrd
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", acoustic guitar on "The Ballad of Curtis Loew"

Charts

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Chart (1974) Peak
position

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
New Zealand (RMNZ)[13] Platinum 15,000 
United States (RIAA)[2] 2× Platinum 2,000,000 

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Notes

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References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Back, Les (2000). "Voices of Hate, Sounds of Hybridity: Black Music and the Complexities of Racism". Black Music Research Journal. 20 (2): 142–143. doi:10.2307/779464. JSTOR 779464.
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  3. ^ a b Second Helping review, AllMusic
  4. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: L". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 1, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  5. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Christgau, Robert (September 1974). "The Christgau Consumer Guide". Creem. Retrieved March 10, 2019.
  6. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fletcher, Gordon (July 4, 1974). "Second Helping". rollingstone.com. Rolling Stone.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Larkin, Colin, ed. (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus. p. 885. OL 11913831M.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Graff, Gary, ed. (1996). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Detroit: Visible Ink. p. 163. OL 8145585M.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th rev. ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 505. OL 21112308M.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster. p. 505–506. ISBN 978-0-74320-169-8.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hull, Tom (April 1975). "The Rekord Report: First Card". Overdose. Retrieved June 26, 2020 – via tomhull.com.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Five Essential Boogie-Rock Albums". Houston Press. April 26, 2011. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
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