Tres Hombres

When you manage to lose the car keys between the front door and the pavement, you think maybe you're not firing on quite as many cylinders as you should be.
But I made the meeting at 11, got back at 3.15 just in time for school and got dinner and played Battleships (very impressed with my proforma grid which I'd promised the boys a week ago) and after said children were in bed and I had to start on other stuff, I thought, 'I have two options here. It's either The Scissor Sisters very loud, or something a bit more meditational'. So I went for the latter: ZZ Top.
Now I know, if you know ZZ Top, you'll be thinking Eliminator etc, but in my opinion their finest album is their third, Tres Hombres from 1973.

It's blues, it's Southern-boogie rock, it's gospel, and the religious iconography is no accident. Let me share a few tracks. Have You Heard?

The magnificent Jesus Just Left Chicago (live here, not the album track)



The beautiful Hot, Blue and Righteous



And just in case that's not quite you, Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers (again, live and not the album track).



OK, I could post every track. And yes, the clean-shaven one is called Frank Beard.

There, one skinny hour and how much better do I feel? Back to the fray...