Sunday morning an old friend posted on my facebook a song from the past that hit me right in my memory lane. It took me back to when I was 13 or 14 years old I think those are the pivotal times in our lives musically you are old enough to start liking your own style of music and you are influenced by your pears more than your parents. Anyway it was ((Just Got Payed Today)) by ZZ TOP a great Blues band from Texas who combined Rock and Roll with a lot of Blues guitar curtice of Billy Gibbons and had a sound all there own in the late Sixties and Seventies this is from Rio Grande Mud there second album. Before they made it big. and like most sold out to there signature sound and just made the same songs over and over with different words. But before that they were a great band and there first three album are unbelievable. Real original music with alot of power The White Album, Rio Grande Mud. and the cudegraw. Tres Hombres the album that took them into the main stream. If you like the blues these are the definitive Texas blues albums along with Steve Ray Vaughn , Jimmie Vaughn,The Winters Brothers. There are hundreds of others but these are the ones who took it nation wide. And in the early days of rock and roll they were Texas answer to the British invasion groups. And the answer was loud and clear we can play with anybody..................
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