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“ZZ Tops 1973 breakthrough was a masterful melding of complementary styles, cramming Southern rock and blues boogie through the bands own idiosyncratic filter…

Tres Hombres is a top sirloin steak of an album, lean yet beefy, not a trace of gristle to be had on 10 songs that clock in just over 33 minutes. It twines together both the Texas blues and its hard-rocking British variant, with Gibbons taking cues from the likes of Lightnin Hopkins and Fleetwood Macs Peter Green. But it also stakes out its own ground. The record struck a nerve with metalheads and punks, prog-rockers and hipsters. In its songs, tales of highway succubuses and Greyhounds abound, the supernatural mingling with the folksy, Jesus with good ol boy ghosts.

In hindsight, its hard to fathom American rock culture without Gibbonss lecherous “har-har-har,” much less the opening one-two of Waitin for the Bus and Jesus Just Left Chicago.” – Pitchfork

This great sounding 2006 remaster of the original 10 tracks has been augmented by 3 blazing live tracks that only add to the legend that is ZZ Top!

Compact Disc Pressing

Tracklisting:

1. Waitin’ For The Bus
2. Jesus Just Left Chicago
3. Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers
4. Master Of Sparks
5. Hot, Blue And Righteous
6. Move Me On Down The Line
7. Precious And Grace
8. La Grange
9. Sheik
10. Have You Heard?
Bonus Tracks
11. Waitin’ For The Bus (Live)
12. Jesus Just Left Chicago (Live)
13. La Grange (Live)