ZZ Top – Tejas (E/E) – LP, AU 1977

Tejas is an LP by ZZ Top from 1977 released on the London Records label.

About this album

Tejas finds ZZ Top refining their hard-edged Southern rock sound into something lean, greasy and unmistakably Texan. Released in 1977, the album sits at a transitional point before the band’s late-70s and early-80s breakthrough, balancing blues-rooted boogie with sharper rock & roll punch and a drier, more experimental edge. Tracks such as It’s Only Love and Arrested For Driving While Blind show their gift for taut riffs, sly humour and rural imagery, while Asleep In The Desert hints at the band’s broader, more eccentric palette. It remains one of the trio’s most distinctive pre-megastar statements.