With the release of the "Chrome, Smoke & BBQ" box, this album is pretty much rendered obsolete. Almost all the tracks presented here are included in the box; and with better sound quality. So for ZZ fans who want to pop this in their car cd player and go, it's a great compilation (with the exception, however, of "Heaven, Hell Or Houston" ...arguably the worst song ZZ ever did...yet it is on almost every "greatest" album or box). If you do not already own any ZZ Top cds, the "Chrome.." 4 cd box is definitely the way to go. You can not go wrong with Billy Gibbons on guitar, period.

I am 50 yers old and been playing electric blues/rock most of my life. I know the real thing from the counterfeit, and Billy Gibbons is the "real thang!" When ZZ Top first started becoming popular I was playing in the Memphis tennessee club circuit and the word was getting around about this little blues band from Texas that had been gigging in the area which featured a really hot lead guitarist. When i saw them at the Memphis Coliseum I found out what people were talking about. That's the reputation that they had at the time........hot and funky texas blues. I'm glad this CD was released because it is a good picture of where the band seemed to be heading in the early days. The CD is worth the price paid just for the first three songs alone. Billy Gibbons can play the blues! Nuff said!

"Brown Sugar", "Hot,Blue, and Righteous", "Sure Got Cold After the Rain Fell", "BarBQue", and "Old Man" are the best cuts, to me, on this album. I could have done without "Heaven, Hell, or Houston". I saw these guys in concert at Mississippi State in 1973, and I was so inspired I've been playing guitar ever since.
The volume at the concert was so bonerattling you could hardly make out what they were playing--it was like WWIII, but make no mistake about it these guys were kicking [rear].

This album is great.I can suggest it any zz top fan or bluesman.17 real blues songs.Awesome!!

I think Blue Jean Blues has been omitted bcoz it was on Best of '77. That is why My heads in Mississippi shouldn't be on here. It's on greatest hits. [doesn't something on "Best Of" have more credit than something on "Greatest Hits", less commercial maybe] Anyway, My head in... is a good song but "Tell It" is a good blues standard that isn't on other collections. Nuthen from poor old Tejas which doesn't have one song on "Greatest Hits" "Best of" or "One foot in the blues" combined. I think 6 songs appear on the box set. One foot is a grear collection of blues songs ['cept for Heaven, hell or Houston] and it covers their bluesy material from First album to Recycler. I could also have had Groovy little Hippie pad and Mushmouth Shoutin but oh well, they can only fit so much in 75 minutes!