Review:
For someone who knows ZZ Top primarily from their synth-heavy '80s MTV days, this is a blusey, rollicking surprise. Like a band that has played a thousand dirty bars too many, ZZ Top flings through this sleazy half hour set without so much as a hitch. The prime example of the band's consummate professionalism is probably the almost imperceptible 4/4 segue between the first two tracks, but throughout the group seems unaffected yet insistent. The album as a whole is perhaps too familiar an exercise in its genre to qualify as great, but it's delivering precisely what it wants and not wasting any time in doing it.
Top Tracks:
"La Grange," which is ubiquitous, but has been anonymous for me until now. The grungy revivalism of "Jesus Just Left Chicago."
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