TELL ALL THEM
PENCIL-PUSHERS
BETTER GET
OUT OF MY WAY
Gimme Back My Bullets
is the fourth
studio album
by American
Southern rock
band
released on
February 2, 1976.
Produced by
Tom Dowd,
it reached
number 20
on the U.S.
albums chart
and was
certified gold
on
January 20, 1981,
by the RIAA.
Critical Reception
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."
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."
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