Customer Reviews
Not the band of old - By: Damien James OFarrell, 28 Jul 2010 
I am a long time fan of the original band & if you are too I'd stay away from this release. Great songs played poorly on what is a sub-standard live album. Like the most recent studio album best avoided.
Skynyrd at Freedom Hall - By: Geoffrey White, 27 Jul 2010 
If you love Skynyrd, you'll love this. Especially if you been to a Skynyrd concert.
Excellent DVD picture & sound quality - By: C. Robertson, 14 Jul 2010 I have to agree with other reviewers, there is nothing here that has not been seen or heard on other Lynyrd Skynyrd dvd's /cd's, but the picture quality & production on the dvd took my breath away.
I have never seen such vivid colours & heard such good sound on a live concert dvd before.This dvd would definitely be worth the money for the picture & sound quality.
GREAT VALUE AND A GREAT CONCERT BY A GREAT BAND ! - By: P. Clack, 07 Jul 2010 Sometime ago now I purchased the Greatest Hits set by this band, since then it's consistently been played, every track is worth hearing again & again,then came a concert DVD,once again top of the drawer pure southern rock.Now comes this double set CD/DVD livein Kentucky home state of Mohammed Ali.Fifteen tracks by a great band doing their thing & doing it so well.This is not sophisticated rock this is the real deal.A band that quickly sold out UK dates last year thirty odd years on the road ,years of great albums & numerous concert releases.Fifteen tracks here will get any party going, this is live rock at it's finest by a band that get every gig into party mode & if you've as yet not got into the music of Lynyrd Skynyyrd here's a great place to start.Recordedin 2007 but only just releasedin 2010 don't let that bother you because this is very must a greatest hits & favourites live, but you also realize what a loss Bill Powell their keyboard man who died last year has been. Think of songs like 'Sweet Home Alabama', the favourite of so many & still sounding as good as the day it was first released 'Free Bird', to the wonderfully slide guitar lead 'Ballad Of Curtis Lowe', the rockin' 'Down South Junkin' J J Cale's 'Call Me The Breeze' probably the best version outside of Cale's own, to songs like 'What's Your Name', 'Gimme Three Steps', 'Workin','Travellin' Man' & the very American patriotic anthem 'Red,White And Blue'.The DVD is the full length of the concert the disc 15 tracks of Skynyrd live from the same gig.You need to see & hear this band to really enjoy the music & atmosphere of seeing them bestin a live setting.
Get on board & enjoy the ride with one of rocks most enjoyable & greatest exponents doing what they do best...ROCKIN' THE PLACE' KENTUCKY HAD QUITE A NIGHT AND HERE RIGHT NOW YOU CAN SHARE THAT EXPERIENCE, great stuff !
...a peculiar one... - By: Mr. H, 26 Jun 2010 
Well this is an odd one. You would have thought that the follow-up to last years rather splendid "God & Guns" might have been a live recording from that tour, to act as a souvenir for the folks who bought the album & / or went to the shows. Instead, they've went back to 2007 for a show recordedin Louisville, Kentucky.
Now that was four years after their last studio album, an album that had already been marked with an excellent live release. That had also been a double live album, so what you're getting here is almost a single disc version of that, with only two songs here - `The Needle & The Spoon' & `Travelin Man' - not on that release. And the latter did turn up on the DVD version. Which leaves us with a live show of no particular merit, if you've already got every other live album & DVD that's been put out. And no great effort has been put into the presentation, as once you get past the unnecessary slipcase, you'll find the skimpiest booklet ever to lend itself to an alleged major release. Maybe the band didn't care, but their label should certainly have made the effort at a time when punting CD's is increasingly difficult. However, it is the last recorded output of the late Billy Powell & Ean Evans, with the formers piano frills still a treat to behear.
The DVD actually offers a much better experience, no more so than when you speculate how much weight Gary Rossington has lost since their last DVD. He must be half the man he used to be. The track listing is identical to the CD version, which means things start off fairly slowly with `'Travelin' Man' & `Workin', neither of them among Skynyrds best. Although the former means they get to bung the late Ronnie Van Zant up on the big screen at the start of the show.
Things really kick off with `What's Your Name', & there's a lot of good stuff from then on. Rickey Medlocke is an absolute star, with seemingly boundless energy for a man who was then 57. Elsewhere, it's songs like `Down South Jukin', `The Needle And The Spoon', the timeless `Simple Man' & `Gimme Back My Bullets' that keeps the red, white & blue standard high, even if I do miss the imposing presence of the late Hughie Thomasson on stage.
Despite the lacklustre mannerin which it's presented, it's worth it for the DVD content, which also has a much better mix than the audio. That may be due to the fact that the show appears to have been filmed for TV broadcast (not that you'd know from the liner notes!) & explains why the colonials are getting this as a DVD release.
