ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud (1972/2011) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist:

[3:35] 01. ZZ Top - Francene
[4:28] 02. ZZ Top - Just Got Paid
[3:49] 03. ZZ Top - Mushmouth Shoutin'
[4:33] 04. ZZ Top - Ko Ko Blue
[3:23] 05. ZZ Top - Chevrolet
[2:39] 06. ZZ Top - Apologies to Pearly
[3:27] 07. ZZ Top - Bar-B-Q
[7:22] 08. ZZ Top - Sure Got Cold After the Rain Fell
[3:21] 09. ZZ Top - Whiskey'n Mama
[2:25] 10. ZZ Top - Down Brownie



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ABOUT THE ALBUM
1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
Total length: 00:38:59
Main artist: ZZ Top
Label: Rhino - Warner Records
Genre: Pop/Rock, Rock
Hi-Res 24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo
(c) 1972 Warner Records Inc.
(p) 1972 Warner Records Inc.

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. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine




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