Track Listing DISC 1: 1. Still Unbroken 2. Simple Life 3. Little Thing Called You 4. Southern Ways 5. Skynyrd Nation 6. Unwrite That Song 7. Floyd 8. That Ain't My America 9. Comin' Back For More 10. God & Guns 11. Storm 12. Gifted Hands
DISC 2: 1. Bang Bang 2. Raining In My Heartland 3. Hobo Kinda Man 4. Red White & Blue [Live] - (live) 5. Call Me Breeze [Live] - (live) 6. Sweet Home Alabama [Live] - (live)
| Details | | Playing Time: | 78 min. | | Producer: | Bob Marlette, Rob Dennis | | Distributor: | n/a | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Additional personnel: Greg Morrow, Jerry Douglas, Rob Zombie, Perry Coleman, Bob Marlette. Audio Mixers: Ben Fowler; Bob Marlette. Recording information: Sound Kitchen, Franklin, TN; Studio Sea, Ft. Myers, FL; Blackbird Studios, Nashville, TN; Freedom Hall, Louisville, KY (07/15/2007). What to make of GOD & GUNS, the group's new album from Roadrunner Records? It certainly sounds like Lynyrd Skynyrd, maybe with a little more contemporary Nashville on board, and there's plenty of that Southern redneck rocker attitude on display. What might be missing however is a little more compassion and heart, two qualities that were the secret ingredients in the late Ronnie Van Zant's singing. Johnny sounds like him, sure, but where Ronnie came across slightly disappointed, wounded, and--God forbid--regretful underneath his swagger, Johnny comes across like an archetypal Southern redneck convinced that America is all about guns and God. The lead single from this set, "Still Unbroken," is a decent song, but that's about it, although the album has a big, full feel. There just aren't many songs here to go with that fullness (God & Guns was produced by Bob Marlette)--"Southern Ways" has a certain charm, maybe because it's essentially a slowed-down rewrite of "Sweet Home Alabama" with the same riff as an anchor, and "Floyd" has some ragged atmosphere going for it. It ends up feeling like an album that stomps and roars and sounds like Lynyrd Skynyrd but somehow just isn't the same.
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