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Second Helping

Second Helping is the second studio album by Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on April 15, 1974. It features the band's biggest hit single, "Sweet Home Alabama", an answer song to Neil Young's "Alabama" and "Southern Man", which reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1974.

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Genres
Southern rock · blues rock · boogie rock · hard rock
Labels
Sounds of the South · MCA
Length
37:15
Producer
Al Kooper
Recorded
June 1973[a] – January 1974
Released
April 15, 1974

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  • Legend Legend (Lynyrd Skynyrd album)

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Second Helping

Nodes41
Edges40
Triples44
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.04878
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Second Helping

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related to Critical reception · 20
Second Helping → Allman Brothers Band, Brothers, Christgau, Christgau's Record Guide, Creem, Fletcher, Gordon Fletcher, He, If, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Lĕh-'nérd, Pronounced, Reviewing, Robert Christgau, Rock Albums, Rolling Stone, Seventies, Skin-'nérd, Southern, When
related to background · 11
Second Helping → After, Allen Collins, Ed King, Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd's, Lĕh-'nérd, Pronounced, Ronnie Van Zant, Skin-'nérd, United States, Who's Quadrophenia
Genres · 4
Second Helping → blues rock, boogie rock, hard rock, Southern rock
Labels · 2
Second Helping → MCA, Sounds of the South
Length · 1
Second Helping → 37:15
Producer · 1
Second Helping → Al Kooper
Recorded · 1
Second Helping → June 1973[a] – January 1974
Released · 1
Second Helping → April 15, 1974
Studios · 1
Second Helping → Studio One, Doraville, Georgia (track 1) Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles, California
is a · 1
Second Helping → second studio album by Lynyrd Skynyrd

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second helping 1974 lynyrd album southern skynyrd billboard rock released april sweet home alabama track band's reached charts pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd

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Second HelpingGenresSouthern rock1.00infobox
Second HelpingGenresblues rock1.00infobox
Second HelpingGenresboogie rock1.00infobox
Second HelpingGenreshard rock1.00infobox
Second HelpingLabelsSounds of the South1.00infobox
Second HelpingLabelsMCA1.00infobox
Second HelpingLength37:151.00infobox
Second HelpingProducerAl Kooper1.00infobox
Second HelpingRecordedJune 1973[a] – January 19741.00infobox
Second HelpingReleasedApril 15, 19741.00infobox
Second HelpingStudiosStudio One, Doraville, Georgia (track 1) Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles, California1.00infobox
Second Helpingis asecond studio album by Lynyrd Skynyrd0.90text

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