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- Artist: ZZ Top
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- Release Date: 1972
- Total Time: 40:51
- Genre: Rock
Review
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, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Francine (Lyrics) | Billy Gibbons, |
ZZ Top | (3:33) |
| Just Got Paid (Lyrics) | Billy Gibbons, Bill Ham | ZZ Top | (4:49) |
| Mushmouth Shoutin' (Lyrics) | Billy Gibbons, Bill Ham | ZZ Top | (3:41) |
| Ko Ko Blue (Lyrics) | ZZ Top | (4:56) | |
| Chevrolet (Lyrics) | Billy Gibbons | ZZ Top | (3:47) |
| Apologies to Pearly | ZZ Top | (2:39) | |
| Bar-B-Q (Lyrics) | Billy Gibbons, Bill Ham | ZZ Top | (3:34) |
| Sure Got Cold After the Rain Fell (Lyrics) | Billy Gibbons | ZZ Top | (7:39) |
| Whiskey'n Mama (Lyrics) | ZZ Top | (3:20) | |
| Down Brownie (Lyrics) | Billy Gibbons | ZZ Top | (2:53) |
