open 12 to 7 today ! on this date 40 years ago ! Second Helping is a 1974 alb** by Lynyrd Skynyrd. It was the band's second alb**, and featured its biggest hit single, Sweet Home Alabama , an answer song to Neil Young's Alabama and Southern Man .The song reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1974. This was the first Lynyrd Skynyrd alb** to feature the band's trademark triple guitar attack.