Street Survivors

Street Survivors
a photo of the band members surrounded by flames in a burning town
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 17, 1977
RecordedCriteria Studios, Miami, Florida, April 1977; Studio One, Doraville, Georgia, July–August 1977; Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Muscle Shoals, Alabama
GenreSouthern rock, boogie rock
Length35:26
LabelMCA
ProducerTom Dowd; Jimmy Johnson & Tim Smith (track 3)
Lynyrd Skynyrd chronology
One More from the Road
(1976)
Street Survivors
(1977)
Skynyrd's First and... Last
(1978)
Alternate cover
the band members on a black background
Cover image used following the plane crash
Singles from Street Survivors
  1. "What's Your Name"
    Released: November 1977
  2. "You Got That Right"
    Released: October 17, 1977

Street Survivors is the fifth studio album by the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on October 17, 1977. The LP is the last Skynyrd album recorded by original members Ronnie Van Zant and Allen Collins, and is the sole Skynyrd studio recording by guitarist Steve Gaines. Three days after the album's release, the band's chartered airplane crashed en route to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, killing the pilot, co-pilot, the group's assistant road-manager and three band members (Van Zant, Gaines, and Gaines' older sister, backup singer Cassie Gaines), and severely injuring most who survived the crash.

The album was an instant success, achieving gold certification just 10 days after its release. It would later go double platinum.[1] The album performed well on the charts, peaking at #5 (the band's highest-charting album), as did the singles "What's Your Name" and "That Smell," the former a top-20 hit on the singles chart.

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