Same three guys, same three chords, for 50+ years. Best three piece band in Texas. RIP Dusty.

Their drummer is Frank Beard who came up as a jazz drummer. He is an amazing drummer. Strangely he is the only one without a beard.

The riff and the vocal style are homages to bluesman Johnny Lee Hooker

This song is about the brothel in La Grange (The Chicken Ranch) that the Best Little Whorehouse is Texas is based on. It existed for Generations for Texas boys and men between Houston, San Antonio and Austin and points around. Everyone knew about. It needed great song to memorialize it.

The vocalist for Sharp Dressed Man and La Grange is guitarist/vocalist Billy Gibbons. The three members on the album cover are Billy Gibbons (guitar/vocals), Dusty Hill (bass/vocals), and the only member without a bread: Frank Beard (drums).

Grr-range. First time I saw them I was in High School and they came on stage dressed in Stetson cowboy hats, rhine stone shirts, boots, belt and buckles which threw off the whole crowed because we were wondering how we ended up in a country & western concert. Then they started playing this song and just blew the whole crowd away. This song is about a house of ill repute ( The Chicken house) that was sort of famous or infamous when the fight to close it went all the way to the capital in Austin. There was a play and movie about it with Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds call the "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" The chicken house was shut down in 1973 the same year this song came out.

I will describe his voice for you....Iconic!

I am 68 years old still rocking strong because I came up in the 70s with this great classic guitar rock and roll

ZZ Top is a true power trio. Live, they are as powerful as pretty much any band I saw. The Reverend Billy Gibbons has many sounds to his voice.

One of the most iconic songs in music, with one of the most instantly identifiable guitar riffs. Best driving music ever.

It was the 1900's... 1970's to be precise... I met these guys in 1980 and spent about 4 days with them. My best friend's dad's best friends. Went shooting, fishing and camping. About 5 days and 4 nights. I was 9. They played around the campfire every night. I had NO clue who they were!

ZZ TOP "Blue Jean Blues"...Nuff Said. 🔥

That’s Billy Gibbons on guitar and vocals. Anybody that toured and hung out with Jimi Hendrix back in the day, you know is gonna be badass!!

one guitar, one bass, one drummer. thats it. fkng texas magic.

The riff was in a beer commercial. Heard it on the X or Tush are both great. My absolute favorite is Waiting for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago. They must be played together.

" I'm Bad I'm Nation Wide " ZZ TOP

John Lee Hooker and dozens of older, foundational blues players sounded like this. The voice in this one is an affectation that they put on for their most authentic Delta blues songs.

This album came out when I was in high school. I was rebuilding a Volkswagen engine at a friend's house, and he put this album on. We didn't have time to go in and change the album, and the turntable was on auto-repeat, so one side played over and over again for hours while we worked. Good times.

Earlier ZZ Top stuff is a lot more blues/rock than later stuff, where they got a lot more "poppier".

3 guys 1 drummer 1 bass guitar 1 guitar doing lead and rhythm. Badass definitely.

This tune got A LOT of play on the jukebox when I was a teenager. I think we wore that 45 record out! I still love ZZ's unique sound. 👍

I’ve always loved the groove and vocals of this song. Every time this comes on the radio my wife has to say how she doesn’t like this song. 😂

The riff is ‘Boogie Chillun’ and the vocal style including the ‘How, How, How is from ‘Boom Boom’, both by John Lee Hooker. This is sung by guitarist Billy Gibbons who also sang ‘Sharp Dressed Man’. Thus was recorded in Memphis and he did the bizarre voice with the sound engineer while the record producer was out gathering food. The producer hated it but they insisted it very left in.

My grandfather grew up in the town right next to LaGrange. At that time the "business" mentioned in this song was literally the only business in town.

ZZ makes a lot of sound for three musicians.

The Biggest Little Band in Texas! That was how the band was referred to in the 70's and this was their sound (more blues based) until the 80's when 2 things magically happened. They weren't afraid of a little modern technology that changed their guitar sound and the explosion of MTV which gained them a ton of new fans. Older sound songs Tush, Pearl Necklace, Heard it on the X, Jesus Just Left Chicago. Newer sound, Legs, Gimme All Your Lovin, Velcro Fly, TV Dinners, Rough Boy, Got Me Under Pressure!

I first liked ZZ TOP when the ELIMINATOR album came out with all their hit singles like 'Sharp Dressed Man', 'Gimme all your lovin' and 'LEGS'. I then heard THIS song, and my love for them went to another level and I started delving into their older tracks and discovered how truly amazing they are as musicians. Both the guitar work, and the drumming, is just incredible, on a consistent basis. To me, they are simply legendary! Thanks for reviewing their songs here! Keep smiling👍

Billy himself described his voice as a rusty zipper… Love these guys… Formed in Houston, Texas.

Awesome - that’s how you describe it. His voice is very deep naturally and he’s just using it in that way - with a little added emphasis

My first concert. Best three-man band ever. Peace, Love!!

You must check out "Waitin' For The Bus / Jesus Just Left Chicago" on the same album. Two different songs but they meant to be listened to back to back. So good! Enjoying your channel. Thanks!

ZZ Top Blues Boogie Rock They have an amazing catalog of songs to react to

This was in the early days when they were a badass blues/southern rock band. Sharp dressed man was after they became a boring pop band. They were great. Good reaction.

ZZ Top has always been 3 guys. As someone else said, the third member is the drummer. The Tres Hombres album is from their pre-MTV era. "Sharp Dressed Man" however, is from the MTV era. They've got lots of great tunes from both eras. I saw them at the Abilene Civic Center in 1974, great show! Another song you might want to check out is "Tush".

"That lil' 'ol Blues band from Texas !" R.I.P., Dusty ...............

Don’t forget “Just got paid today” another short banger.

John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom.Boom Was the inspiration for this track and deserves a reaction. Billy Gibbons & Company historians of black blues and founded a blues museaum and Society. Of course they're from Houston.

"Gimme All Your Lovin'" and "Tubesteak Boogie" would be good next.

He was in his early twenties singing this song. Crazy hard.

They formed the band in Houston Texas.

I'm bad I'm nationwide is a fire ZZtop song❤Much love from Canada❤🇨🇦

WOOOHOOOO!!! ZZ TOP!!! ENJOY!!! I tend to enjoy ALL their songs - but: I'm particularly fond of their older tunes (like this one)!!!

'The Chicken Ranch', outside LaGrange, Texas, was an "illegal" brothel tgat was famous. A movie called 'The Best Little Whorehouse' in Texas' is about the place. Movie starred Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton.

My favorite song from this group!

What a great song. A very brief span of vocals and then the remainder of the song a vehicle for Billy Gibbons' blazing guitar skills. Old timey Texas blues! A+ ~~ I've enjoyed seeing ZZ Top play this song in shows on hot summer nights in Tupelo, Mississippi, and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Under pressure live from Texas is an excellent video for appreciating ZZ Top.

It's one guitar and one bass and one drummer. That Lil ol band from Texas 🎉

Texas Blues at their finest. As we say down here, It don't get much better!! Great reaction guys. As we say here in Texas; y'all be safe. Hope you had a wonderful holiday.

i’ve been listening to zz top since i was 3 yrs old, i absolutely love them

Please, please, please do a review of ZZ's "Waitin' For the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago" trust me, its a fan fave for sure!

ZZ Top is just too cool! 😎 Unique sound!! Both in looks and in sound! 🔥🔥🔥 Great reactions!!👍👍

This is the first song i learned to play on acoustic guitar back in the 70's =) Great Song Great Reaction !

This one's always been my #1 ZZ Top song.♥

I was in a band and we played this song nearly every gig. It’s fun to play

I'm with you, Phil - that voice took me by surprise the first time I heard it, too. I don't know how to describe it either... although "congested" comes to mind...

Great 3 piece legendary band ..great sound..yes southern accent..great reaction guys

I’ve seen them probably 20 times since the 70’s and they are still touring with Lynyrd Skynyrd. Last time was in Lubbock Texas with Skynyrd about 10 years ago. Fantastic show!

When I seen them in San Diego ZZ Top with opening acts:Blue Öyster Cult and Johnny & Edgar Winter! It was by far the loudest, rockingest, party I've ever been to! Wanted to share something back. I really enjoy getting to watch people discover new music. And look forward to seeing you guys in my notifications.

I have been to the studio where ZZ Top recorded their first several albums. It was almost a religious experience knowing that songs like La Grange, Jesus Just Left Chicago, and Hot Blue and Righteous were bouncing off of those walls. The studio is in Tyler, Texas, about 200 miles north of Houston.

I've been playing guitar since 1965. This is one of my favorite solos. Fun to play

ZZ top just good rock'n roll. Grate for driving, road music.

His voice definitely isn't twangy. Best three piece rock band in my lifetime. 🇨🇱🎸🎵🇺🇲

Since everyone is talking about ZZ Top, I’m gonna plug a 1971 album called Hooker ‘N Heat that John Lee Hooker made with Canned Heat. Double Vintage!

Billy Gibbons on lead vocals. You cannot go wrong with a ZZ Top song. Loved that shuffle gallop on the drums by Frank Beard. A classic guitar riff and they have a lot of them.

Pre "Gimme all your lovin'" is where it's at.

This is my dads favorite band and something I heard very often growing up. I’ve been able to see them multiple times live and they are just the dope at dudes. Billy is legendary guitarists favorite guitarist. Sad we lost Dusty, but he left us with some of the greatest jams ever made.

The song they have " THANK YOU " is also great. Although ZZ TOP has many great songs.

You two need this more than any two i have ever seen. Good job! That’s a famous John lee Hooker riff!!!!

Fun irony for you : Of the 3 guys in the band, the guitarist and bassist have those long iconic beards... but the drummer does not, his name is Frank BEARD.

When I was a teenager in a small town in the Hill Country of Texas, in the '60's, the Chicken House in La Grange was legendary. I'm sure someone has mentioned that there was a movie about it starring Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton. Thanks for reacting to La Grange!

Sharp Dressed Man was from the 80s, when several 70s bands (Heart, Yes, Aerosmith, ZZ) went with more of a pop/rock sound. This album, Tres Hombres, came out in '73, and is pure Texas blues/rock. The whole album kicks ass. I much prefer it to their 80s stuff, although don't dislike that, just like their 70s stuff a lot more.

Visiting Texas years ago, driving down the highway, and La Grange comes on the radio just as I am passing the La Grange EXIT! 😄

One of the biggest songs of 70s rock radio 👍💯🔥 The only ZZ I take seriously is 70s ZZ. These guys were killers. Tejas is favorite ZZ album.

Creators of the Texas Blues. That’s the sound you hear from ZZ Top and SRV. Y’all have to go down this amazing rabbit hole! First, learn the band and members first through a documentary…Sill blow your mind!

Had the good fortune of seeing them live in 77’ , at a small venue in Portland OR. One of my first 8 tracks from Columbia records 🤣

Ther are always 3 peple inn ther videos. They are 3 members and 2 of them are singing. They are an old band. Born Joe Michael Hill in Dallas, he, Gibbons and Beard formed ZZ Top in Houston in 1969, naming themselves in part after blues singer Z.Z. Hill and influenced by the British power trio Cream. Their debut release, “ZZ Top's First Album,” came out in 1970.

Imagine hearing this blast out over the radio for the first time. Even in times of so much creativity and experimentation in music, this sounded like nothing we had heard -- so fresh and raw. I saw them shortly after this came out and was blown away by the wall of sound coming from 3 people.

I think my dad played this when I was about six or so. I didn't really. get into them until Eliminator but knew a lot of their songs. This one still is my favorite. Billy Gibbons was the shit. I read that at one time Jimi Hendrix said that Billy was the best guitarist on the planet at that time while he was in the band Moving Sidewalks. That's crazy. Still one of my favorite bands ever.

Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers off of this album Tres Hombres is another great rocker by ZZ Top

Billy Gibbons does most of the guitar work. Dusty Hill (RIP) did the bass and some guitar work. Frank Beard did drums and, ironically, is the only one who doesn’t have a beard. Next on your list should be Waiting On The Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago. It’s kind of a matched pair, so you have to listen to both. Much love ❤️ and hope you had a very Merry Christmas 🎁🎄 😊

This song ALWAYS makes me think of the movie Armageddon 😂😂"FOUR!"

“Blue Jean Blues”. Give it a listen. Good as it gets

This is my JAM right here.

“Heard it on the X” is a great song by them. It’s about the late night radio stations in Mexico back in the day that were much more powerful than the stations in the USA were allowed to be. They blasted blues music and could be heard all over Texas. Cheers from West Texas!🇺🇸🇨🇱🤘🏻😎

Guaranteed speeding ticket song on blast!!!

Nest song you need to hit from them is Tush. That was sung by their late bassist, Dusty Hill. He died back in 2021. The three members, Billy Gibbons on guitar and Frank Beard on drums were together for more than 50 years.

Legendary tune and band! My brother lives in a town called LaGrange, though not Texas!Back in the day great music did not have to be filled with nonsense vocals that filled every second of a song. They used to let the music breathe!

My favorite ZZ Top tune, just ahead of "Rough Boy".

You guys have got to hear the first two songs on this album, "Waiting for the Bus" and "Jesus Just Left Chicago". They're always played together and they're great.

the album is a must-have

That album, Tres Hombres, is a genuine classic. No telling how many copies I've worn out in my lifetime. This is earlier ZZ Top, before Sharp Dressed Man. I prefer this era of their career but I love all their music. One of my favorite bands.

Around fall of 1974 I was cutting and selling firewood in my friends old dodge pick-up and he had this tres hombres album on 8 track tape. First time I heard it I was blown away! We had made a huge sign selling firewood for $35 a cord. A woman asked us to deliver it so we did. Her husband came out of the house and said That isn't a cord! We didn't know a cord of wood had actual dimensions! We thought it was just however much you could cram into a pick-up bed

What you heard before by them was MTV ZZ Top, by which time they had become a caricature of themselves for the masses. This is beer drinking, hell raising ZZ Top, which was a whole different kind of animal. On that note, I would suggest "Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers" for more of THAT ZZ Top. Thanks for the upload.

There's a backstory on this song... the guys were on a break in the studio and just fooling around with this John Lee Hooker sound and the engineers had kept the tape running. When the engineers heard this they made "keep going, keep going" motions to them. What you just listened to is what they originally did fooling around. They tried several different takes but none of them were as good as the original. This is Texas Blue Rock! Love it! You should also listen to John Lee Hooker's Boom Boom (which has it's own backstory!). It's a classic blues!

My first concert was ZZ Top. $8 Ticket/$12 Concert T-shirt Before the "Eliminator" album. RIP Dusty.😇

They formed in Houston, I think. My sister lives in La Grange....it's a very cool little German town between Austin and Houston. ZZ Top finally, for the first time, played "La Grange" in La Grange at the County Fair about 6 years ago...lol.

70's teenager in Texas at the corner store- "Hey man, what kinda rolling papers ya got?" Cashier - "All we got is Zig Zag and Top."

Zz Tops first album was recorded at Rose City studios in Tyler, Tx. One of their first (maybe their first) live performance was at the high-school coliseum in Alvin, Tx

Little town called Houston, TX. 👍🏽 Narly, and pays tribute to John Lee Hooker (try "Boom Boom"). Saw these guys a few times. Any ZZ Top is fine by me.

This is ZZ Top before they became mainstream. I wasn’t ever told about the vocal homage to John Lee Hooker, but being a huge fan of The Blues Brothers movie as soon as I heard “haw haw haw haw” in this I knew it was. I imagine live this is a song that only ended when they’d had enough of playing. It could go on for ever. Great reaction. Now go watch the John Lee Hooker sequence in Blues Brothers…