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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 |access-date=14 August 14, 2011}}</ref>

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

|rev2Score = B<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: L|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=L&bk=70|access-date=March 1, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref>

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

| rev3Score = (favorable)<ref>{{cite web|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 |work=web.archive.org |year=2011 |access-date=14 August 14, 2011 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014191922/http://rollingstone.com/artists/lynyrdskynyrd/albums/album/186306/review/5943365/skynyrds_first_andlast |archive-date=October 14, 2007 }}</ref>

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'''''Skynyrd's First and...Last''''' was the original name of the [[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''''', being expanded to include eight additional tracks – four of which were previously unreleased and four which would be re-recorded for ''[[(Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)]]''. As the renamed title suggests, the album was recorded at [[Muscle Shoals Sound Studio]] in [[Alabama]]. Originally intended to be their debut album it was 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 albums contains early band recordings from 1971 and 1972. Many of the tracks are exclusive to these albums, being either otherwise unreleased, or original versions of songs later re-recorded for other studio albums. However, a few of these early tracks were later released on compilation albums, such as ''[[Lynyrd Skynyrd (album)|Lynyrd Skynyrd Box Set]]'' and the [[Germany|German]]-based [[Repertoire Records]] release ''[[Old Time Greats (Lynyrd Skynyrd album)|Old Time Greats]]'' in 1997.