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- Artist: ZZ Top
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- Release Date: 1970
- Total Time: 35:16
- Genre: Rock
Review
ZZ Top's First Album may not be perfectly polished, but it does establish their sound, attitude, and quirks. Simply put, it's a dirty little blues-rock record, filled with fuzzy guitars, barrelhouse rhythms, dirty jokes, and Texan slang. They have a good, ballsy sound that hits at gut level, and if the record's not entirely satisfying, it's because they're still learning how to craft records -- which means that they're still learning pacing as much as they're learning how to assemble a set of indelible material. Too much of this record glides by on its sound, without offering any true substance, but the tracks that really work -- "(Somebody Else Been) Shaking Your Tree," "Backdoor Love Affair," "Brown Sugar," and "Goin' Down to Mexico," among them -- show that from their very first record on, ZZ Top was that lil' ol' blues band from Texas. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| (Somebody Else Been) Shaking Your Tree | Billy Gibbons | ZZ Top | (2:32) |
| Brown Sugar (Lyrics) | Billy Gibbons | ZZ Top | (5:22) |
| Squank (Lyrics) | Billy Gibbons, Bill Ham, |
ZZ Top | (2:46) |
| Goin' Down to Mexico (Lyrics) | ZZ Top | (3:26) | |
| Old Man (Lyrics) | Billy Gibbons, |
ZZ Top | (3:23) |
| Neighbor, Neighbor (Lyrics) | Billy Gibbons | ZZ Top | (2:18) |
| Certified Blues (Lyrics) | ZZ Top | (3:25) | |
| Bedroom Thang (Lyrics) | Billy Gibbons | ZZ Top | (4:37) |
| Just Got Back from Baby's (Lyrics) | Bill Ham, Billy Gibbons | ZZ Top | (4:07) |
| Backdoor Love Affair (Lyrics) | Bill Ham, Billy Gibbons | ZZ Top | (3:20) |
