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ZZ TOP SHARP DRESSED MAN

Arguably their best was taken from ZZ Top’s commercial breakthrough album, 1983’s , which propelled them from a not-so-well-known blues band to international superstars. The two solos in particular are dripping with Muddy Waters-inspired bluesy doublestops and quarter-tone bends.

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