The resultant third album, Tres Hombres (1973), was the first for which the band gained a million-seller and wide acclaim. They also began recording with engineer Terry Manning at Ardent Studios in Memphis. In January 1973, ZZ Top opened for The Rolling Stones three shows in Hawaii. King was at the "top", they settled on ZZ Top. The band had planned to call themselves Z.Z. However, Gibbons wrote in his autobiography, Rock + Roll Gearhead, that it actually came from a tribute to and a play on the name of blues guitar master B. It has also been claimed as a tribute to blues singer Z. The band's name is often said to be a combination of two popular brands of rolling paper, Zig-Zag and Top. The album hit the top ten while the single "La Grange" hit 41 on the singles chart. It proved to be the group's commercial breakthrough, attracting a far larger fanbase. Tres Hombres is the third album by American blues-rock band ZZ Top, released in 1973, and marked the first of many times the band worked with engineer Terry Manning. This song is not about Vaughan's struggle with drug abuse, as many think, but actually about Vaughan's friendship with Doyle Bramhall from Bramhall's perspective. The album includes a Grammy-winning extended instrumental cover version of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing" "Chitlins con Carne", a jazz instrumental and, "Life by the Drop", a song written by Vaughan's friend Doyle Bramhall and played on acoustic guitar. The album's tone alternates primarily between uptempo pieces and gritty, slow blues. The Sky Is Crying illustrates many of Vaughan's musical influences, including songs in the style of traditional Delta blues, Chicago blues, jump blues, jazz blues, and Jimi Hendrix. Released about one year after Vaughan's death in 1990, the album features ten tracks originally recorded between 19. SRV, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble, The Sky is Crying. So in no particular order, here they are. But the majority of them have had their early roots in the blues, or have been influenced by various blues artists to some degree. Some are rock, some are country, some are blues, some are just uniquely different. I can however, relate to you perhaps ten albums that, for a plethera of reasons, have impacted who I am, how I feel about life or world issues or just everyday living, or have seeded themselves firmly into the medley of musical variations I have come to enjoy over the span of 50 years. To try and cultivate into a mere 10 albums (and let alone rank them) a half a century of musical tastes and preferences is physically impossible. Having been tagged by both of you in less than 24 hours, I guess I really need to go ahead and devote the time to this task.
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