Just pointing out the last couple of reviews on Dave Q’s blog which are sheer genius. The ZZ Top reviews are the best music writing I’ve read in a couple of eons.
ZZ Top – Tejas – ****1/2
MOODS: Ominous, nocturnal, cynical, druggy, conspiratorial
SIMILAR/RELATED – Jim Thompson, Tobe Hooper, Malcolm Lowry, Paul Bowles
Making their evolution into a new-wave band appear in retrospect the logical next step by foregrounding the country rhythms. The Top turn off the Interstate for a tense night drive through the hinterlands, where lonely oil rigs loom over the landscape like all-seeing pteranodons and it isnÂ’t safe to pull over until you reach the Darien gap. “Arrested for Driving While Blind” is the last exit to civilisation – after that, the law is the least of your problems. To quote ‘The Sheltering SkyÂ’, “nothing is ever lost in the desert”, and that applies to ‘lost weekends’ too. Abandon hope. Fill ‘er up.