The two hundred and seventy-first album: #271 Lynyrd Skynyrd - (Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd)
After I commented on not liking the Rolling Stones' blues rock before, the way Lynyrd Skynyrd handles it works a lot better for me. Perhaps it's the clearer vocals, which add focus to the songs. Perhaps it's the mellotron that adds body to some of these. The overall feeling I get is an album that's rock with blues elements added, rather than adding rock to blues, and it's a mix that works better.
The mix of tracks hits well too, with SImple Man a relatively simple, quiet song after some louder, more aggressive numbers. The whole album manages to keep this up, the B-side perhaps a bit more experimental and fun, but mostly there's a nice, coherent country rock sound here that has been rare so far.