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ZZ Top - One Foot in the Blues Audio CD

A fair review of the ZZ Top "One Foot in the Blues" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all ZZ Top reviews here, or go back to the ZZ Top tabs.

ZZ Top Band: ZZ Top
Title: One Foot in the Blues
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Release Date: 1994-11-22
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Brown Sugar 2: Just Got Back from Baby's 3: Fool for Your Stockings 4: I Need You Tonight 5: She Loves My Automobile 6: Hi Fi Mama 7: Hot, Blue and Righteous 8: My Head's in Mississippi 9: Lowdown in the Street 10: If I Could Only Flag Her Down 11: Apologies to Pearly 12: Sure Got Cold After the Rain Fell 13: Bar-B-Q 14: Old Man 15: Certified Blues 16: 2000 Blues 17: Heaven, Hell or Houston

ZZ Top One Foot in the Blues
This is one of my favorite CDs. . I lost my copy so I ordered this one to replace it. . . the CD was in perfect shape. . . thank you.


Deceptive not all blues
e. Although the CD is good, and I love ZZ Top, it is deceptive because one foot in the blues is not all blues songs: i. HiFi Mama, She Loves My Automobile, Heavan Hell or Houston, If Only I could Flag Her Down, etc. These are a mixed bag of Pop/Rock songs thrown in. With a title of one foot in the blues, I expect to hear my wife left me, my dog (who has one tooth) bit me, I ain't go no money and the rent is due. This clearly fell short of a pure blues CD. .


I love ZZ Top but do not love remixed versions of their music! Also, not remastered.
I've seen them live several times and they always put on a great show. First let me say that I'm a very big fan of ZZ Top. Recently, I became aware of the fact that all the 70's records except for 1979's Deguello, as well as 1981's El Loco (same albums on the six pack) were remixed with lots of reverb added and new drum tracks as well. I'm told they thought people wouldn't re-buy these albums on cd's because they already had bought the vinyl. So, they decided to remix them a bit and make them more like their blockbusting MTV style 80's work.

Now, I love 80's Top as much as the next guy or gal but I expect it to be in the decade where it belongs. There's something special about ZZ Top's 70's output, like an old comfortable shoe that just fits (sounds) perfect every time you hear it. Ladies and Gentlemen, as of the date of this post, if you have any of these albums (ZZ Top's First Album, Rio Grande Mud, Tres Hombres, Fandango, Tejas, or El Loco) on CD then you have remixed versions! People have been listening to these new improved versions for 15 or 20 years if they bought these albums on cd. Unless you had the vinyl, cassette or were listening to Best of ZZ Top/Deguello, you've been listening to these remixed versions. Even the radio stations have been playing these remixed versions for years. The other culprit is ZZ Top's Greatest Hits and ZZ Top's Six Pack. These are all remixed on the earlier material.

I'd recommend Rancho Texicano, Chrome, Smoke & BBQ or the remastered editions of Tres Hombres and Fandago if you want to hear the best ZZ Top you've ever heard.
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Must Have For ZZ Fans...First Timers Get The Box...
Almost all the tracks presented here are included in the box; and with better sound quality. With the release of the "Chrome, Smoke & BBQ" box, this album is pretty much rendered obsolete. So for ZZ fans who want to pop this in their car cd player and go, it's a great compilation (with the exception, however, of "Heaven, Hell Or Houston" . . . arguably the worst song ZZ ever did. . . yet it is on almost every "greatest" album or box). If you do not already own any ZZ Top cds, the "Chrome. . " 4 cd box is definitely the way to go. You can not go wrong with Billy Gibbons on guitar, period.


Great collection
That is why My heads in Mississippi shouldn't be on here. I think Blue Jean Blues has been omitted bcoz it was on Best of '77. It's on greatest hits. [doesn't something on "Best Of" have more credit than something on "Greatest Hits", less commercial maybe] Anyway, My head in. . . is a good song but "Tell It" is a good blues standard that isn't on other collections. Nuthen from poor old Tejas which doesn't have one song on "Greatest Hits" "Best of" or "One foot in the blues" combined. I think 6 songs appear on the box set. One foot is a grear collection of blues songs ['cept for Heaven, hell or Houston] and it covers their bluesy material from First album to Recycler. I could also have had Groovy little Hippie pad and Mushmouth Shoutin but oh well, they can only fit so much in 75 minutes!.


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