ZZ Top LP "Rio Grande Mud" 1972 Near Mint Blues Rock
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Description
Warner 1972 release # BSK-3269
VINYL: NEAR MINT
COVER: VERY GOOD++
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
With their second album, Rio Grande Mud, ZZ Top uses the sound they sketched out on their debut as a blueprint, yet they tweak it in slight but important ways. The first difference is the heavier, more powerful sound, turning the boogie guitars into a locomotive force. There are slight production flares that date this as a 1972 record, but for the most part, this is a straight-ahead, dirty blues-rock difference. Essentially like the first album, then. That's where the second difference comes in — they have a much better set of songs this time around, highlighted by the swaggering shuffle "Just Got Paid," the pile-driving boogie "Bar-B-Q," the slide guitar workout "Apologies to Pearly," and two Dusty Hill-sung numbers, "Francine" and "Chevrolet." There are still a couple of tracks that don't quite gel and their fuzz-blues still can sound a little one-dimensional at times, but Rio Grande Mud is the first flowering of ZZ Top as a great, down-n-dirty blooze rock band.
Tracks Title Composer Time 1 Francine Cordray, Gibbons, Perron 3:33 2 Just Got Paid Gibbons, Ham 4:49 3 Mushmouth Shoutin' Gibbons, Ham 3:41 4 Ko Ko Blue Beard, Gibbons, Hill 4:56 5 Chevrolet Gibbons 3:47 6 Apologies to Pearly Beard, Gibbons, Ham, Hill 2:39 7 Bar-B-Q Gibbons, Ham 3:34 8 Sure Got Cold After the Rain Fell Gibbons 7:39 9 Whiskey'n Mama Beard, Gibbons, Ham, Hill 3:20 10 Down Brownie Gibbons 2:53price rating
