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Rancho Texicano: The Very Best of ZZ Top
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Editorial Reviews
ZZ Top: Dusty Hill (bass guitar); Frank Beard, Billy Gibbons. Personnel: Billy Gibbons (vocals, guitar, fiddle, harmonica, baritone saxophone, keyboards); Frank Beard (vocals, alto saxophone, drums, percussion); Dusty Hill (vocals, tenor saxophone, keyboards). Audio Remasterer: Bob Ludwig. Liner Note Authors: James Austin; Tom Vickers. Recording information: Ardent Studios, Memphis, TN; Memphis Sound Productions, Memphis, TN; Robin Hood Brian Studios, Tyler, TX. Photographers: Helmut Werd; James Patrick Cooper; Ross Halfin. In its long history, ZZ Top followed a career trajectory that took the group to unforeseen heights of commercial success. Starting as a feisty blues-based trio, the band never abandoned its original inclinations, but smartly expanded its approach to reflect contemporary styles. However, far from turning its back on its roots in the 1980s, the boys from Texas embedded those blues elements into their biggest hits. The two-disc TEXICANO offers the perfect amount of space to tell the ZZ Top tale with the succinct drama of the band's best songs (the Top had previously been showcased with a single-disc GREATEST HITS and the four-CD box CHROME, SMOKE & BBQ). Presented chronologically, the set starts with a bang as the trio, by the time of 1970's ZZ TOP'S FIRST ALBUM, was already a perfectly tuned hotrod. The mid-'70s found the hits getting bigger, but what was big for a blues-based band became enormous as the '80s dawned. "Cheap Sunglasses" and then the group's smart embrace of videos and electronics ("Gimme All Your Lovin'," "Sharp Dressed Man," and "Legs") expanded its audience into the millions. Latter-day tracks reveal that that although ZZ Top wandered from the strict blues path at times, it never strayed too far from its trademark Texas boogie sound.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 5.51 x 4.65 x 0.39 inches; 4.23 ounces
- Manufacturer : Warner Bros.
- Item model number : CD789082
- Original Release Date : 2004
- SPARS Code : DDD
- Date First Available : January 29, 2007
- Label : Warner Bros.
- ASIN : B0001ZXM54
- Country of Origin : Italy
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #55,451 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #310 in Classic Southern Rock
- #395 in Contemporary Blues (CDs & Vinyl)
- #662 in Arena Rock (CDs & Vinyl)
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Well, I do Buster and this cd is great for the car.
I'm not always an advocate of compilation albums because it's not always the artist who chooses the tracks or the playing order.
Thankfully, Billy, Dusty, and Frank are at a point in their careers where they can pretty much call all the shots. It's not as if they haven't always done that but let's say that previous studio and record company decisions pertaining to their catalog have not been as strong as this one, in my humble opinion.
This offering is a paired down boxed set, essentially. It does a fantastic job of providing the essential songs from each album. A NOTABLE omission is the superb "Have You Heard" from Tres Hombres but we can forgive that given the inclusion of Brown Sugar from First Album, a looong overlooked gem and a harbinger of all things cool an "ZZ" that we have come to recognize over the last fifty years.
Collect their albums. They're all good. Yes, even the synth albums are great records because they have giant hit songs interspersed with classic ZZ songs like TV Dinners on Afterburner. You have to dig into album tracks.
But...if you want to listen in the car and you're tired if hearing Geico commercials on Pandora...get this CD.
It's the bomb.
As for the perennial "new" ZZ Top vs. "old" ZZ Top...I don't really think the divide is that wide. I do prefer the older stuff; it was much less "commercial" (as subjective as that term is), much blusier and, frankly, Billy Gibbon's voice simply can't compare to Dusty Hill's (which is not to dis Gibbon's pipes so much as to pay tribute to Hill's).
The writing of the New Stuff is also often simpler, sometimes much simpler: Hill's bass often thrumming one note for bar after bar after bar, only to change to another note (just take a look at the tablature (sp) for some of the Newer Stuff), light years behind the rollicking bass-lines of old.
The trio's playing is always tight, but there's a certain sense of complacency, often giving me the feeling that the recordings were being phoned in. But songs like "Legs" and "Sharp Dressed Man" capture much of the older magic of majestic Texas Boogie classics such as "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide" (not infrequently heard as bumper music on Rush Limbaugh's show), "La Grange" and "A Fool for Your Stalkings" & "Arrested for Driving While Blind."
Finally, ZZ Top is that rarest of music phenomena, a band that creates its own genre and then does it so well that no one else even tries to move in. I suppose the argument could be made that they are part of the larger "southern rock" genre, but it's not one I agree with. This trio is unique and if age and success have dulled their edge (and what band in their fourth decade doesn't have to fight those creeping tendencies?), nothing can take away the achievements of these masterful Texans.
With 38 tracks on 2 discs, I think it includes all of their biggest hits and a few others that are very recognizable, as well. I was happy to hear very clean, original sounding cuts, just as they've sounded all of these years. This a very good collection that I don't think will disappoint anyone.