ZZ TOP LA GRANGE
In 1973, Tres Hombres, ZZ top’s third album, would give the Texan trio their first sniff of success, reaching the US top 10, where its predecessors had barely broken the top 100. Lead single La Grange was largely responsible for the surge in the band’s popularity, receiving substantial radio-play at the time.
At the heart of the song is guitarist Billy Gibbons’ blues shuffle riff – a key part of blues vocabulary and well worth a little of your (they were even sued by the publisher, albeit unsuccessfully) and the history of rock is awash with variations on this theme. Norman Greenbaum’s has a broadly similar riff, and you could say AC/DC’s is a ‘straightened’ adaptation at a stretch. Even Oasis got in on the act in 1995 with .
