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{{Infobox album

| name = Skynyrd's First and... Last

| type = compilation

| artist = [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]

| cover = SkynyrdsFirstAndLast_LynyrdSkynyrdalbum.jpg

| alt =

| released = September 5, 1978; 1998

| recorded = 1971–1972

| venue =

| studio = [[Muscle Shoals Sound Studio]], Sheffield, AL

| genre = [[Southern rock]]

| length = 36:36

| label = [[MCA Records|MCA]]

| producer = Jimmy Johnson, Tim Smith

| prev_title = [[Street Survivors]]

| prev_year = 1977

| next_title = [[Gold & Platinum]]

| next_year = 1979

| misc = {{Extra album cover

| header = 1998 Re-release cover

| type = compilation

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{{Album ratings

| rev1 = [[Allmusic]]

| rev1Score = {{Rating| 3|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/r12117 |title=Skynyrd's First And...Last - Lynyrd Skynyrd &#124; AllMusic |first=Stephen Thomas |last=Erlewine |work=allmusic.com |year=2011 |accessdateaccess-date=14 August 14, 2011}}</ref>

| rev2 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock =Albums [[Robertof the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''

| rev2Score = (B)<ref name="CG">{{cite web book|urllast= http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?nameChristgau|first=Lynyrd+Skynyrd Robert|titleauthor-link=Robert Christgau:|year=1981|title=[[Christgau's CGRecord Guide: LynyrdRock SkynyrdAlbums of the Seventies]]|firstpublisher=Robert[[Ticknor & Fields]]|lastisbn=Christgau089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: L|workchapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com |year/get_chap.php?k=2011 L&bk=70|accessdateaccess-date=14March August1, 20112019|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref>

| rev3 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''

| rev3Score = (favorable)<ref>{{cite webmagazine|url=http://rollingstone.com/artists/lynyrdskynyrd/albums/album/186306/review/5943365/skynyrds_first_andlast |title=Lynyrd Skynyrd: Skynyrd's First and...Last : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone |first=Dave |last=Marsh |workmagazine=web.archive.org[[Rolling Stone]] |year=2011 |accessdateaccess-date=14 August 14, 2011 |deadurlurl-status=unfit |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014191922/http://rollingstone.com/artists/lynyrdskynyrd/albums/album/186306/review/5943365/skynyrds_first_andlast |archivedatearchive-date=October 14, 2007 }}</ref>

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'''''Skynyrd's First and... Last''''' was the original name of thea [[posthumous work|posthumous compilation album]] first released in 1978 by the rock band [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]. The original 1978 version of the album is now out of print. In 1998, it was repackaged, renamed and re-released as '''''Skynyrd's First: The Complete Muscle Shoals Album''''', which wasbeing expanded to include eight additional tracks – fourtracks—four of which were previously unreleased and four which would appearbe onre-recorded for ''[[(Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)]]''. As the renamed title suggests, the album was recorded at [[Muscle Shoals Sound Studio]] in [[Alabama]]. ThisOriginally album was originally plannedintended to be their debut album beforeit gettingwas shelved, making ''(Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)'' their actual debut. The album was certified Gold on 9/September 8/78{{Clarify|reason=ambiguous, date format|date=February 2016}}1978, and Platinum on 11/November 10/78{{Clarify|reason=ambiguous, date format|date=February 2016}}1978, by the RIAA.<ref name=RIAA/>

The albumalbums contains early band recordings from 1971 and 1972. It is considered an essential album by most fansMany of the band, according to many, as the tracks are eitherexclusive notto available on otherthese albums, andbeing latereither withotherwise the 1998 re-releaseunreleased, containsor original versions of songs later re-recorded songs that are on thefor other studio albums,{{Clarify|reason="either" without "or"|date=February 2016}} which are now all on one album. However, a few of these early tracks were later released on compilation albums, such as ''[[Best of the Rest (Lynyrd Skynyrd (album)|BestLynyrd ofSkynyrd theBox RestSet]]'' in 1982 (1990 on CD) and again on the [[Germany|German]]-based [[Repertoire Records]] release ''[[Old Time Greats (Lynyrd Skynyrd album)|Old Time Greats]]'' in 1997.

==Track listing==

===''Skynyrd's First and...Last'' track listing===

#"Down South Jukin'" <small>([[Gary Rossington]], [[Ronnie Van Zant]])</small> - 2:12

#"Preacher's Daughter" <small>([[Rickey Medlocke]], Van Zant)</small> - 3:39

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#"[[Things Goin' On]]" <small>(Original Version) (Rossington, Van Zant)</small> - 5:10

===''Skynyrd's First: The Complete Muscle Shoals Album'' track listing===

#"[[Free Bird]]" <small> (OriginalMuscle Shoals Versiondemo) (Collins, Van Zant)</small> - 7:26

#"One More Time" <small>(Original Version) (Rossington, Van Zant)</small> - 5:04

#"[[Gimme Three Steps]]" <small>(Original Version) (Collins, Van Zant)</small> - 4:09

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====Notes on ''Skynyrd's First''====

*Tracks 2-32–3, 10 released on the ''[[Lynyrd Skynyrd (album)|Lynyrd Skynyrd Box Set]]'' (1991)

*Tracks 1, 8-9, 15-1715–17 are previously unreleased

*Track 11 released on ''[[The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd]]'' (1998)

*Tracks 1, 8-9, 15-17 are previously unreleased

*All the rest are from ''Skynyrd's First and...Last''

==Personnel==

'''Lynyrd Skynyrd'''

*[[Ronnie Van Zant]] – [[Lead vocalist|lead vocals]]

*[[Allen Collins]] – [[guitar]]

*[[Gary Rossington]] – guitar

*[[Billy Powell]] – [[Keyboard instrument|keyboardspiano]] (1, 11)

*[[Greg T. Walker]] – [[bass guitar|bass]] (2*, 5, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15–17); backing vocals (2*, 6, 11, 12)

*[[Leon Wilkeson]] - bass

*[[Larry Junstrom]] – bass (2*)

*[[Bob Burns (drummer)|Bob Burns]] - [[Drum kit|drums]]

*[[Leon Wilkeson]] – bass (3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 14); backing vocals (3)

*[[Rickey Medlocke]] - [[Singing|vocals]], [[Drum kit|drums]], [[mandolin]]

*[[Rickey Medlocke]] – [[Drum kit|drums]] (1, 2, 5, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15–17); backing vocals (2, 11); lead vocals (6, 12, 16–17); [[mandolin]] (12)

*[[Ed King]] - bass

*[[Bob Burns (drummer)|Bob Burns]] -– [[Drum kit|drums]] (3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 14)

*[[Greg T. Walker]] - [[Bass guitar|bass]]

*[[Wayne Perkins]] – guitar

'''Additional musicians'''

* Tim Smith – backing vocals (1, 2, 11)

* Gimmer Nichols – acoustic guitar (6)

'''1975/76 overdubs'''

*[[Ed King]] – bass (1, 6); guitar (4, 7, 11, 12, 14)

* [[Cassie Gaines]], JoJo Billingsley, Leslie Hawkins – backing vocals (4, 7)

*[[Wayne Perkins]] – guitar (5, 7)

* Randy McCormick – [[Mellotron]] (6)

* [[Jimmy R. Johnson]] – guitar (7)

* Ronnie Eades – [[saxophone]] (7)

Notes

* (*) Either Larry Junstrom or Greg T. Walker plays bass on "One More Time".

* All Ed King overdubs were recorded in 1975; the remaining overdubs in 1976.

== Production personnel ==

* [[Jimmy Johnson (musiciansession guitarist)|Jimmy R. Johnson]] - producer

* Tim Smith - producer

*[[Michael Zagaris]] - photography

==Chart positions==

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"

|-

! Chart (1978)

! Peak<br/>position

|-

! scope="row"| Australian Albums ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|___location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}}</ref>

| align="center"| 89

|-

{{Album chart|Canada|35|chartid=0025a|artist=Lynyrd Skynyrd |album= Skynyrd's First and... Last|rowheader=true|accessdate=22 April 2018}}

|-

{{Album chart|UK|50|artist=Lynyrd Skynyrd |album= Skynyrd's First and... Last |refname=UK albums|rowheader=true|accessdate=22 April 2018}}

|-

{{Album chart|Billboard200|15|artist=Lynyrd Skynyrd |refname=Billboard 200|rowheader=true|accessdate=22 April 2018}}

|}

==Certifications==

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{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|artist=Lynyrd Skynyrd|title=kynyrd's First and...Last|award=Platinum|type=album|certyear=1978|accessdate=December 25, 2021|refname=RIAA}}

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==References==

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