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ZZ Top
Released 1972

Just Got Paid
03:47
8,622 plays

Chevrolet
03:19
7,068 plays

Francine
02:54
3,600 plays

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- 1
- Francine
- 02:54
- 3,600 plays

- 2
- Just Got Paid
- 03:47
- 8,622 plays

- 3
- Mushmouth Shoutin'
- 03:43
- 3,019 plays

- 4
- Ko Ko Blue
- 04:23
- 3,141 plays

- 5
- Chevrolet
- 03:19
- 7,068 plays

- 6
- Apologies To Pearly
- 02:45
- 3,366 plays

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- Bar-B-Q
- 03:21
- 3,145 plays

- 8
- Sure Got Cold After The Rain Fell
- 06:45
- 3,386 plays

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- Whiskey 'N Mama
- 03:21
- 3,230 plays

- 10
- Down Brownie
- 02:25
- 2,599 plays

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album 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 Guide