Anyone even slightly adept in street-based contractions would know that the word “gotsta” is a combination of got and to. So in full, this song’s titular phrase (“I Gotsta Get Paid”) would actually read “I got to...
As put forth by ZZ Top’s Dusty Hill, where he grew up the term “tush” had two different meanings. One would be it referring to a person’s backside, as most universally used. But in his ‘hood,...
ZZ Top‘s “Jesus Just Left Chicago” is sort of a religious track, though not really overtly so. In other words, just mentioning Jesus in and of itself does not automatically make a song spiritual. Indeed claiming...
ZZ Top’s “La Grange” is quite terse lyrically. And what it centers on is not the city of La Grange, Texas, of which it is named after. Rather there was once a well-known brothel located there,...
The “Little Old band from Texas” as often characterized, are an original Texas founded rock band thriving since 1969. ZZ Top began their musical journey with the blues rock genre dominating their sound but soon...
