Before they sweated their image down to beards, babes and hot rods,
ZZ Top
were a down 'n' dirty blues-rock trio with a bonafide hot guitar player in
Billy Gibbons
. On this 14-track offering, Warner goes back through the back
ZZ
catalog and cobbles together an interesting collection of the Texas trio's bluesier sides that originally appeared on their earliest albums. Highlights include
"Brown Sugar,"
"A Fool for Your Stockings," "My Head's in Mississippi," "Apologies to Pearly" and
Gibbons
' storming stringwork on "Bar-B-Q." ~ Cub Koda