Lynyrd Skynyrd: Second Helping (MCA)
Bud Scoppa, Crawdaddy!, September 1974
FLORIDA's Lynyrd Skynyrd keeps getting compared to the Allman Brothers Band, mostly because the group is Southern, and because lead singer Ronnie Van Zant has a vocal delivery that resembles Gregg Allman's.
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