Gimme Back My Bullets

Infobox Album | Name = Gimme Back My Bullets
Type = Studio album


Artist = Lynyrd Skynyrd
Released = February 2 1976 (US)

Recorded = Sep. 7-9, 1975 at the Record Plant, Los Angeles (tracks 2,4,8) and Nov. 28-30, 1975 at Capricorn Studios, Macon, Georgia
Genre = Southern rock
Length = 34:57
Label = MCA Records (US)

Producer = Tom Dowd
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:uh90s32ba3vg link]
*"Rolling Stone" (mixed) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/lynyrdskynyrd/albums/album/172731/review/5942909/gimme_back_my_bullets link] |Last album = "Nuthin' Fancy"
(1975)
This album = "Gimme Back My Bullets"
(1976)
Next album = "One More from the Road"
(1976)

"Gimme Back My Bullets" is Lynyrd Skynyrd's fourth studio album is was released in 1976.

The album was originally titled "Ain't No Dowd About It", in tribute to the producer Tom Dowd, whom the band idolized. This was the original band's only studio album to not make platinum. However, it did include the hits "Gimme Back My Bullets""Double Trouble" and "Cry For The Bad Man"

Track listing

#"Gimme Back My Bullets" (G.Rossington - R. Van Zant) – 3:28
#"Every Mother's Son" (A.Collins - R. Van Zant) – 4:56
#"Trust" (A.Collins - G.Rossington - R. Van Zant) – 4:25
#"I Got the Same Old Blues" (J.J.Cale) – 4:08
#"Double Trouble" (A.Collins - R. Van Zant) – 2:49
#"Roll Gypsy Roll" (A.Collins - G.Rossington - R. Van Zant) – 2:50
#"Searching" (A.Collins - R. Van Zant) – 3:17
#"Cry for the Bad Man" (G.Rossington - A.Collins - R. Van Zant) – 4:48
#"All I Can Do Is Write About It" (A.Collins - R. Van Zant) – 4:16

Bonus tracks on expanded edition

#"Gimme Back My Bullets" (live)
#"Cry For The Bad Man" (live) Both bonus tracks were recorded March 7, 1976 at Bill Graham's Winterland, San Francisco, California and previously unreleased on album

Personnel

Lynyrd Skynyrd

*Ronnie Van Zant – lead vocals, lyrics
*Allen Collins – guitars
*Gary Rossington – guitars
*Billy Powell – keyboards
*Leon Wilkeson – bass, background vocals
*Artimus Pyle – drums, percussion

Additional: The Honkettes (background vocals: 5,8), Lee Freeman (harp: 4), Barry Harwood (dobro & mandolin: 9), violin on (9) is "unidentified"