Question: What year was one of Lynyrd Skynyrd's signature songs released?

Context articles: Rossington Collins Band
Lynyrd Skynyrd (album)
Sweet Home Alabama
Pickin' on Lynyrd Skynyrd: A Tribute
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Skynyrd Frynds
God &amp; Guns
The Ballad of Curtis Loew
Rickey Medlocke
All I Can Do Is Write About It

The Rossington Collins Band was a southern rock band founded in 1979 by guitarists Allen Collins and Gary Rossington following the 1977 plane crash which killed three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, of which both had been members.
 The band included two other surviving members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Billy Powell and Leon Wilkeson.
 The band wished to develop their own sound rather than being regarded as a reformed Lynyrd Skynyrd, and toward that objective they hired a female lead vocalist, Dale Krantz, who later married Rossington.
 The Jacksonville-based band released two albums before disbanding in 1982.
 Their biggest hit, "Don't Misunderstand Me," charted in late 1980.
Lynyrd Skynyrd (Box Set) is the first box set released by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
 It features outtakes, demos and live versions of songs released on their first six albums.
 It was certified
"Sweet Home Alabama" is a song by Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd that first appeared in 1974 on their second album, "Second Helping".
Pickin' on Lynyrd Skynyrd: A Tribute is a tribute album by various bluegrass artists covering the songs of southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd.
 It is part of the "Pickin' On…" series.
Lynyrd Skynyrd (pronounced ) is an American rock band best known for popularizing the Southern rock genre during the 1970s.
 Originally formed in 1964 as "My Backyard" in Jacksonville, Florida, the band was also known by names such as "The Noble Five" and "One Percent", before finally deciding on "Lynyrd Skynyrd" in 1969.
 The band gained worldwide recognition for its live performances and signature songs "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Free Bird".
 At the peak of their success, two band members and a backup singer died in an airplane crash in 1977, putting an abrupt end to the band's most popular incarnation.
 The band has sold 28 million records in the United States.
Skynyrd Frynds is a tribute album to the American Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, released in 1994 on MCA Records.
 It features cover versions of ten Lynyrd Skynyrd songs, as performed by various country music artists.
 The album reached #8 on Top Country Albums upon its release.
 The album was executive produced by Gary Rossington.
God & Guns is the thirteenth studio album by the southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on September 29, 2009.
 The single "Still Unbroken" was released on July 27, 2009 followed by another track, "Simple Life", on August 4, 2009.
 Hughie Thomasson contributed to the writing of many songs, including this first single, before his death.
 "Still Unbroken" was written after the death of original bassist Leon Wilkeson in 2001.
 The album features guitar work from John 5.
 It is also the last Lynyrd Skynyrd album to feature the band's longtime keyboardist Billy Powell, who died in January 2009.
 Ean Evans, who replaced Leon Wilkeson on bass, also died before this album came out.
 This album is the first with guitarist Mark Matejka.
"The Ballad of Curtis Loew" is a song written by Allen Collins and Ronnie Van Zant and recorded by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
 The song was first released on the band's 1974 album, "Second Helping" and again on their compilation, "The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd" and later on "All Time Greatest Hits".
 It is on many of their compilation albums and before the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash, was performed once live on stage.
 Ed King says, "The original version of the band only played 'Curtis Loew' one time on stage.
 We were playing in a basement in some hotel and thought we'd try it.
 We never played it again until the Tribute Tour with Johnny Van Zant."
Rickey Medlocke (born February 17, 1950) is an American musician best known as the frontman/guitarist for the southern rock band Blackfoot and a member of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
 During his first stint with Lynyrd Skynyrd from 1971-1972 he played drums and sang lead on a few songs that would initially be released on 1978's "First and Last".
 Medlocke would rejoin Blackfoot in 1972 and later returned to Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1996 as a guitarist with whom he continues to tour and record today.
"All I Can Do Is Write About It" is a song performed by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
 The song is credited as having been written by band members Allen Collins and Ronnie Van Zant.
 The song was first released on the band's 1976 album "Gimme Back My Bullets" and subsequently on the compilations, "The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd" and "All Time Greatest Hits".