SECOND HELPING

This Lynyrd Skynyrd 1974 album follows the success of Free Bird and Gimme Three Steps from their 1973 debut and features their biggest hit single Sweet Home Alabama, an answer to Neil Young's Southern Man and Alabama. The song reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1974. Second Helping also featured Don't Ask Me No Questions, Workin' for MCA and Call Me the Breeze, the latter of which includes an acclaimed piano solo. Backed by a tight rhythm section and the mighty three-guitar attack of Allen Collins Ed King and Gary Rossington singer Ronnie Van Zant turns in a legendary performance on the urgent blues ballad I Need You, the cautionary the Needle And the Spoon and the Ballad of Curtis Loew.