- southern rock, rock, hard rock, classic rock
- 54 min
- 11 tracks
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", which reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1974.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
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- AllMusic5/5 ★
- Christgau's Record GuideA−
- CreemB−
- Rolling Stone(favourable)
- Encyclopedia of Popular Music4/5 ★
- MusicHound Rock3.5/5
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide4/5 ★
- The New Rolling Stone Album Guide4/5 ★
- Tom HullB−
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Tracks
- 1Sweet Home Alabama4:44
- 2I Need You6:56
- 3Don't Ask Me No Questions3:27
- 4Workin' for MCA4:49
- 5The Ballad of Curtis Loew4:52
- 6Swamp Music3:31
- 7The Needle and the Spoon3:54
- 8Call Me the Breeze5:10
- 9Don't Ask Me No Questions (Single Version)3:31
- 10Was I Right or Wrong (Demo Version)5:33
- 11Take Your Time (B-Side Single Version)7:29
11 tracks, 54 minutes.
About the album
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- Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Type
- Album
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- Digital Media
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- XW
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