Tres Hombres
ZZ Top

Listened to this while driving into Knoxville, TN on a sunny Saturday. It definitely kinda works in that type of soundtrack to a Southern car ride, though for sure would've been better to swap out Tennessee for Texas. (Though, thank God I wasn't driving there.) But in some ways it's difficult for me to hear anything here other than one of the world's premiere white boy blues bar bands. Maybe it's because I just watched that Elvis movie and had cultural appropriation on the brain? I don't know. The 'Top put their own spin on things and, of course, took this sound to a very different area later on. But of the batch here my favorite was easily the ballad "Hot, Blue and Righteous." It stands out to me as having one foot in Southern Rock, three toes into country & western, and only like two toes into the blues. Lots of drunken slow dance opportunities with that number.

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