ZZ Top's First Album is the debut album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by American

United States

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 blues rock band ZZ Top

ZZ Top

ZZ Top is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "That Little Ol' Band from Texas". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based boogie rock, has come to incorporate elements of arena, southern, and boogie rock. The band, from Houston Texas, formed in 1969...

, released in 1971

1971 in music

-Events:*February 1 – after months of feuding in the press, Ginger Baker and Elvin Jones hold a "drum battle" at The Lyceum.*February 8 – Bob Dylan's hour-long documentary film, Eat the Document, is premièred at New York's Academy of Music...

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In 1987, this album was remixed for CD release. The full album is currently unavailable on CD in its original mix (though tracks 2, 4, and 9 are available in their original mix on 2003's Chrome, Smoke & BBQ

Chrome, Smoke & BBQ

Chrome, Smoke & BBQ is a box set by American blues-rock band ZZ Top, released in 2003. This box set is notable for using the original mixes for all of the tracks from the band's first 5 albums for the first time on the CD format...

 boxset, and track 10 is available on 1977's The Best of ZZ Top

The Best of ZZ Top

The Best of ZZ Top is a greatest hits album by American blues-rock band ZZ Top, released in 1977.- Track listing :All songs by Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard, except where noted.- Side A :...

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Reception

Allmusic gave it a 3 stars, stating: "ZZ Top's First Album may not be perfectly polished, but it does establish their sound, attitude, and quirks."

The album has never charted on the Billboard 200

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Singles

The only single released from the album was "(Somebody Else Been) Shakin' Your Tree" (b/w "Neighbor, Neighbor") on London Records (release number 45-138); however, it did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100.

Side A

1. "(Somebody Else Been) Shakin' Your Tree" (Billy Gibbons
   Billy Gibbons
   William Frederick "Billy" Gibbons is an American musician, actor and car customizer, best known as the guitarist of the Texas blues-rock band ZZ Top. He is also the lead singer and composer for many of the band's songs. Gibbons is known for playing his Gretsch Billy Bo guitar and his famous 1959...
   
   ) – 2:32
2. "Brown Sugar" (Gibbons) – 5:22
3. "Squank" (Gibbons, Dusty Hill
   Dusty Hill
   Joseph Michael "Dusty" Hill is the bassist and vocalist with the American rock group ZZ Top.-History:Hill was in Dallas, Texas and grew up in the Lakewood neighborhood of East Dallas...
   
   , Bill Ham
   Bill Ham
   Bill Ham was the manager, producer, and image-maker of ZZ Top, from its inception in late 1969 until September 2006.-Career:...
   
   ) – 2:46
4. "Goin' Down to Mexico" (Gibbons, Hill, Ham) – 3:26
5. "Old Man" (Gibbons, Hill, Frank Beard
   Frank Beard (musician)
   Frank Lee Beard is the drummer in the rock band ZZ Top. Beard was formerly with the bands The Cellar Dwellars, who originally were a three-piece band, The Hustlers, The Warlocks, and American Blues before starting to play and record with Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill as ZZ Top.Beard was born in...
   
   ) – 3:23

Side B

1. "Neighbor, Neighbor" (Gibbons) – 2:18
2. "Certified Blues" (Gibbons, Beard, Ham) – 3:25
3. "Bedroom Thang" (Gibbons) – 4:37
4. "Just Got Back from Baby's" (Gibbons, Ham) – 4:07
5. "Backdoor Love Affair" (Gibbons, Ham) – 3:20

Personnel

• Billy Gibbons
  Billy Gibbons
  William Frederick "Billy" Gibbons is an American musician, actor and car customizer, best known as the guitarist of the Texas blues-rock band ZZ Top. He is also the lead singer and composer for many of the band's songs. Gibbons is known for playing his Gretsch Billy Bo guitar and his famous 1959...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
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  , vocals
  Singing
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• Dusty Hill
  Dusty Hill
  Joseph Michael "Dusty" Hill is the bassist and vocalist with the American rock group ZZ Top.-History:Hill was in Dallas, Texas and grew up in the Lakewood neighborhood of East Dallas...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Frank Beard
  Frank Beard (musician)
  Frank Lee Beard is the drummer in the rock band ZZ Top. Beard was formerly with the bands The Cellar Dwellars, who originally were a three-piece band, The Hustlers, The Warlocks, and American Blues before starting to play and record with Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill as ZZ Top.Beard was born in...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  

Charts

Singles – Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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(North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1971	"(Somebody Else Been) Shakin' Your Tree"	The Billboard Hot 100	50