YouTube Gold: ZZ Top’s Coolest Song

ZZ Top When ZZ Top burst onto the scene in 1973, no one really knew what to make of them. A Texas trio comprised of Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard, the band played a kind of Texa music that few outside the Lone Star State had heard of.

The band had a heavy blues influence that echoed through the following decades as acts like Stevie Ray Vaughn embraced the musical themes and expanded on them.

But no one really matched the early energy of ZZ Top. Tush is a great song and Blue Jean Blues is a great slow grind of a song. Gibbons’ voice proved to be a perfect match for the band’s style, low, gritty and soulful.

In the ‘80s, the band took a different direction, embracing MTV and…