“Tush” by ZZ Top

"Tush" was the only single from ZZ Top's fourth album, Fandango!, released in 1975 on London, and it's a twelve-bar blues in G that grinds like a pickup truck with no muffler. The band knocked it out at a sound check in a rodeo arena with a dirt floor in Florence, Alabama: Billy Gibbons hit the opening lick, their lighting director Dave Blayney signaled them to keep going, and Dusty Hill fell in with the vocal.

The title came from Roy Head's 1966 flip side "Tush Hog", and down South the word meant deluxe, plush, which gave the band a sly double meaning to play with. All three of them, Gibbons, Hill and Frank Beard, share the writing credit, Bill Ham produced and Terry Manning recorded and mixed it. VH1 later slotted it at number 67 in its ranking of the greatest hard rock songs.

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