Lynyrd Skynyrd Announces Career-Spanning ‘Fyfty’ Box Set

Lynyrd Skynyrd will have fun 50 years of God-graced Southern rock with the career-spanning Fyfty field set, set for launch on Oct. 13.

You can preorder it now and see the total observe itemizing beneath.

The assortment, which can be out there as a four-CD or digital set, will contact on numerous phases of the band’s storied historical past, together with their early Muscle Shoals recordings, mid-‘70s reign, 1987 tribute tour and subsequent reunion and latter-day albums like 2009’s God & Guns and 2012’s Last of a Dyin’ Breed.

Fyfty may also embody two beforehand unreleased reside tracks: a 1976 rendition of “Free Bird” from Atlanta’s Fox Theatre and a 2022 efficiency of “Gimme Three Steps” from late guitarist Gary Rossington’s remaining present with the band.

The field set can be rounded out by a 40-page booklet that includes an introduction by music journalist Cameron Crowe, plus liner notes and track-by-track evaluation by music journalist (and UCR contributor) Gary Graff.

“We miss him so much,” Johnny Van Zant stated of Rossington within the liner notes. “What kept me going was calling [Rossington] and having these conversations. He was my cheerleader. So now I’m gonna have to remember his voice to keep my spirits up and keep this thing going … as a tribute, and so people remember him and Ronnie [Van Zant] and all the others who have been part of this.”

Lynyrd Skynyrd, ‘Fyfty’ CD Track Listing
CD 1
1. Comin’ Home (Original Version)
2. I Ain’t the One
3. Gimme Three Steps
4. Tuesday’s Gone
5. Simple Man
6. Sweet Home Alabama
7. The Ballad of Curtis Loew
8. Workin’ for MCA
9. On the Hunt
10. Made within the Shade
11. Whiskey Rock-A-Roller (Live)
12. All I Can Do Is Write About It (Acoustic Version)
13. Gimme Back My Bullets
14. Double Trouble

CD 2
1. Saturday Night Special (Live)
2. T for Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1) (Live)
3. Travelin’ Man (Live)
4. Free Bird (Live – Unreleased)
5. What’s Your Name
6. You Got That Right
7. I Know a Little
8. Down South Jukin’
9. White Dove
10. Was I Right or Wrong?
11. Georgia Peaches
12. Mr. Banker

CD 3
1. Call Me the Breeze (Live)
2. That Smell (Live)
3. Smokestack Lightning
4. Southern Women
5. The Last Rebel
6. Born to Run
7. Devil within the Bottle
8. Talked Myself Right Into It
9. Berneice
10. Voodoo Lake
11. Tomorrow’s Goodbye

CD 4
1. Mad Hatter
2. Pick ‘Em Up
3. Red White And Blue
4. Skynyrd Nation
5. Simple Life
6. Still Unbroken
7. God & Guns
8. Gifted Hands
9. Start Livin’ Life Again
10. Mississippi Blood
11. Last of a Dyin’ Breed
12. Last of the Street Survivors
13. Gimme Three Steps (Live – Unreleased)