ZZ Top LP "First Album" 1970 Debut Near Mint Blues Rock
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Description
Warner 1970 release # BSK-3268
VINYL: NEAR MINT
COVER: VERY GOOD++ (ring wear)
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
ZZ Top's First Album may not be perfectly polished, but it does establish their sound, attitude, and quirks. Simply put, it's a dirty little blues-rock record, filled with fuzzy guitars, barrelhouse rhythms, dirty jokes, and Texan slang. They have a good, ballsy sound that hits at gut level, and if the record's not entirely satisfying, it's because they're still learning how to craft records — which means that they're still learning pacing as much as they're learning how to assemble a set of indelible material. Too much of this record glides by on its sound, without offering any true substance, but the tracks that really work — "(Somebody Else Been) Shaking Your Tree," "Backdoor Love Affair," "Brown Sugar," and "Goin' Down to Mexico," among them — show that from their very first record on, ZZ Top was that lil' ol' blues band from Texas.
Tracks Title Composer Time 1 (Somebody Else Been) Shaking Your Tree Gibbons 2:32 2 Brown Sugar Gibbons 5:22 3 Squank Gibbons, Ham, Hill 2:46 4 Goin' Down to Mexico Gibbons, Ham, Hill 3:26 5 Old Man Beard, Gibbons, Hill 3:23 6 Neighbor, Neighbor Gibbons 2:18 7 Certified Blues Beard, Gibbons, Ham 3:25 8 Bedroom Thang Gibbons 4:37 9 Just Got Back from Baby's Gibbons, Ham 4:07 10 Backdoor Love Affair Gibbons, Ham 3:20price rating
