Sharp Dressed Men: Tribute to Zz Top [Import]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 30, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B0000645J0
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #134,524 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ignore All The Other Reviews, June 23, 2002

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WYK "wyk" (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sharp Dressed Men: Tribute to Zz Top (Audio CD)

If you are a ZZ-TOP fan SECOND and a country fan FIRST, this is one of the greatest albums ever. If you are not a country fan, you likely won't enjoy this album, as many other reviewers can attest. The problem is you get ZZ-TOP fans who are expecting some sort of a Rythmeen concoction (Which happens to be my favorite ZZ-TOP album). It's nothing of the sort. It's pure country. Lonestar SOUNDS like Lonestar. Brad Paisley is 100% Paisley. As are Willie, Kenny Chesney, Tracy Bird et al. They ALL sound great on this album, and all manage to make the songs their own.
Buy it because you like Dwight Yoakam, Phil Vassar, Bocephus, but not because you want to hear ZZ-TOP. ZZ-TOP already has their OWN albums out. ;) Leave bluesy, humbucking, grungy goodness to the TOPs. That's what they do best. Country needs to be played by Country.
Y'all take care, now,

WYK
Austin, TX

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A stunning combo of country acts doing zztop, April 30, 2005

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Terry G. Clark (Illinois USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sharp Dressed Men: Tribute to Zz Top (Audio CD)

Anybody dissing this record just don't get it. I have downloaded and bought a lot music over the years and this is one of the most entertaining listens i can remember in a long time. All the songs are well done and sound super. There is nothing weird on here just great covers of zz top originals. This record kicks off with a bang and just never stops, soulful blues and smoking rock with a little country twang thrown in on occassion. Not one bad song on this disc, how many of your others discs can you say that about!

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Are these guys really country afterall?, April 30, 2002

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Matt Wagner (Lawton, Ok United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sharp Dressed Men: Tribute to Zz Top (Audio CD)

This project just goes to show how far country has come in 10 years. Also gives a taste of what some of these acts would probably would have been doing if people like Brooks and Dunn or Vince Gill didn't introduce the country audience to the electric guitar.

Easy to say if the Eagles came out today, they would only be welcome in the country format - listening to some of country's stars and you have to wonder if they came around 15 years ago if we'd be hearing them on our favorite rock station rather than beside Hank, Waylon, and Willie.

This is one of those projects that you just have to sample song to song - some sound like karaoke gone way too far ("Gimme All Your Lovin' - Lonestar, "La Grange" Tracy Byrd, "Fearless Boogie" Hank III), others rock out quite nicely while the artists do their best impersonations of the Brothers Gibbons ("Rough Boy" B&D, "Legs" Trace Adkins, "Cheap Sunglasses" - Warren Brothers, "I Want to Thank You" Phil Vassar), then there are some tunes that are worth hearing - the ones that some of the better performers of today take on and actually put there own voice and own country style behind - and pull it off ("Tush" Kenny Chesney, "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide" Dwight Yoakam, "Sure Got Cold..." Alan Jackson and "Sharp Dressed Man" Brad Paisley).

Give country credit - this isn't as embarrassing to rock as was the Beatles and the Rolling Stones attempt. Unlike the latter, these guys know ZZ Top quite well - the vast majority being Texans who did time in the club circuit before getting record deals, which your not going to survive unless you can rock southern style.

Have to say, though, after waiting years for Brooks and Dunn to cover their hero's would've loved to hear "Legs" or one of their more rockin' tunes.

If you like uptempo country, especially stuff that rocks, this ones worth a listen. This CD makes you realize just how much Nashville boxes in some genuinely talented artists that could rock out if given the chance.