ZZ TOP DEBUT WAS CLASSIC NO NONSENSE BEARDED BROTHERS BLUES BOOGIE ROCK`N`ROLL
With saucy songs like SLEEPING BAG and VELCRO FLY, typically "macho men" 80`s songs from the`Bearded Brothers of Texas`.
With ZZ Top, it was always no nonsense ballsy boogie rock`n`roll tailor made for
guys to get their rocks off.
guys to get their rocks off.
Long before Billy, Dusty and Frank were churning out their more funk styled boogie of the 80`s, they made a debut album simply titled ZZ TOP`S FIRST ALBUM.
It features very simple no-frills boogie rock tunes heavily influenced by Cream and Hendrix.
There is a typically satirical theme attached to most of the ten songs, as you would expect from ZZ Top.
BROWN SUGAR is the one well known song off their debut, it has been featured on a few blues compilations over the years and even covered by some obscure american bands as well.
BROWN SUGAR is the one well known song off their debut, it has been featured on a few blues compilations over the years and even covered by some obscure american bands as well.
GOING DOWN TO MEXICO is a witty expression of having to escape the law in the US by jumpin` the fence at El Paso.
CERTIFIED BLUES is my favourite song, more workmanlike than BROWN SUGAR and possibly one of the more less-double entredre-ish songs on the album.
NEIGHBOUR NEIGHBOUR is really a crack-up, the manner in which Billy sings `neighbour, neighbour, why you messin` with my life, `neighbour, neighbour, you`ve been talking to my wife', is really the sort of naughty songwriting you`d expect from the Bearded Brothers.
BACKDOOR LOVE AFFAIR, the song title
speaks for itself, I do not want to go there what sort of love these fellas were referring to (laugh), while the slowed down and classically styled blues of I JUST GOT BACK FROM BABY`S is mouthwatering terrific stuff, no boogie or rock`n`roll to speak of.
speaks for itself, I do not want to go there what sort of love these fellas were referring to (laugh), while the slowed down and classically styled blues of I JUST GOT BACK FROM BABY`S is mouthwatering terrific stuff, no boogie or rock`n`roll to speak of.
If you want to hear the Bearded Brothers of Texas playing a diffrent tune to what you would know them as being in the 1980`s, then go back to where it all began for Billy, Dusty and Frank, when Frank was known as Rube.
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