Tuesday's Gone is the second track on Lynyrd Skynyrd's first
album. One of the band's most popular songs, it’s relaxing pace and serenading
guitars has made it a fan staple. The lyrics are band frontman Ronnie Van
Zant's realization that his normal life is finished forever with the band's new
MCA/Sounds of the South record deal. "Tuesday," representing life as
it was, is gone with the wind. The song is similar in mood to the band's
signature tune "Free Bird". Once in a 1975 radio interview a caller
asked Allen Collins, the song's co writer what his favorite Lynyrd Skynyrd song
was and Allen answered "Tuesday's Gone". Al Kooper adds upfront
Mellotron string sounds to the chorus of the song. It is one of a few Lynyrd
Skynyrd songs that Bob Burns the original founding member and drummer did not
play on. Atlanta Rhythm Section's drummer Robert Nix played on the studio
version. Bob Burns however can be heard playing on the demo version from the
same session.
