| Gimme Back My Bullets | |
| Type: | Studio album |
| Artist: | Lynyrd Skynyrd |
| Cover: | GimmeBackMyBullets LynyrdSkynyrdalbum.jpg |
| Released: | February 2, 1976 |
| Recorded: | September 7–9 (tracks 2, 4, 8) and November 28–30, 1975 |
| Studio: | Record Plant, Los Angeles (tracks 2, 4, 8) and Capricorn Studios, Macon, Georgia |
| Genre: | |
| Length: | 35:16 |
| Label: | MCA |
| Producer: | Tom Dowd |
| Prev Title: | Nuthin' Fancy |
| Prev Year: | 1975 |
| Next Title: | One More from the Road |
| Next Year: | 1976 |
Gimme Back My Bullets is the fourth studio album by American Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on February 2, 1976. It reached number 20 on the U.S. albums chart and was certified gold on January 20, 1981, by the RIAA.
The album was originally titled Ain't No Dowd About It, in tribute to the producer, Tom Dowd, whom the band idolized.
Record World said the title track had "a sinewy, guitar-heavy number sound the group is most comfortable with," and said that "the beat is reminiscent of Bad Company and rocks with a stormy aggression."[1]
Robert Christgau, who gave the album a positive review, stated: "Ronnie Van Zant may intend those bullets for 'pencil pushers' (which means not only me but you, I'll bet) but that's no reason to shoot him down. In fact, it's just the opposite—his attraction has always been the way he gets his unreconstructed say. Unfortunately, the music could use some Yankee calculation—from Al Kooper of Forest Hills, who I figure was good for two hooks per album, and Ed King of New Jersey, the guitarist turned born-againer whose guitar fills carried a lot more zing than three doodooing Honnicutts."[2]