ZZ Top -- La Grange
Although I'm not a big fan of most of the behomoth AOR bands of the 1970s, I have to pay respect to these guys for having some pretty tight gutbucket blues. This is one of those songs that I heard so often as a kid that I never bothered to question what the song might mean until recently. (It's about a brothel, it turns out.) The song is incredibly simple, but the key change in the middle -- and then the subsequent turnaround taking the song back to A -- go a long ways toward giving the song the dimensions it needs. This song almost -- almost -- makes me think fondly of Texas, a state I've never really understood.
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