The acoustic intro is gone here but the spirit remains the same. Here’s a version they played for Howard Stern. The strangest thing about ZZ Top is that they can lay claim to being both the dirtiest no-nonsense blues-rock band of the ‘70s and the glitziest camera-ready electro-boogie group of the ‘80s. It’s one of those songs that not many people try to cover because, well, ZZ Top just owns it. The only member of ZZ Top without a beard is drummer Frank Beard, but that’s just the second-strangest thing about this Texan trio. Surveying two decades of their output, Greatest Hits isn't the perfect overview you might expect, but it's still a pretty darn good driving album. Their best song though may have been from their 1973 breakout album, Tres Hombres, called LaGrange. One of ZZ Top's great gifts is its concision even in the side-long-jam era of the '70s, the Texans almost always fit 10 cuts on their albums. Gibbons and Beard are still in the band Hill was replaced by the musician he chose, Elwood Francis. They stayed together from 1969 to June of 2021, when Hill passed away. In the ‘80s, the band took a different direction, embracing MTV and synthesizers, but without losing touch with their roots. Gibbons’ voice proved to be a perfect match for the band’s style, low, gritty and soulful. Tush is a great song and Blue Jean Blues is a great slow grind of a song. The band had a heavy blues influence that echoed through the following decades as acts like Stevie Ray Vaughn embraced the musical themes and expanded on them.īut no one really matched the early energy of ZZ Top. A Texas trio comprised of Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard, the band played a kind of Texa music that few outside the Lone Star State had heard of. When ZZ Top burst onto the scene in 1973, no one really knew what to make of them.
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