American Blues - Do Their Thing (1969) ( Korean Remastered, 2016)

Artist: American Blues
Title Of Album: Do Their Thing
Year Of Release: 1969/2016
Label (Catalog#) Big Pink [Big Pink 465]
Country: USA
Genre: Psychedelic Blues Rock
Bitrate: Lossless
Quality: FLAC (image + cue,log)
Time: 00:35:23
Full Size: 220mb(+3%)(covers)

Pre ZZ Top: Dusty Hill, Frank Beard.

American Blues were an American 1960s Texas-based garage rock band, who played a psychedelic style of blues rock music influenced by the 13th Floor Elevators. They are most notable for including two future members of the band ZZ Top in their ranks, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard. From 1966 to 1968, they played the Dallas-Fort Worth-Houston circuit and headlined in three clubs all called "The Cellar", in Dallas at clubs such as "The Walrus" on Mockingbird Lane, and in Houston at "Love Street Light Circus Feel Good Machine" on Allen's Landing, as late as 1968.

Around 1968 the band (the two Hill brothers and Beard) decided to leave the Dallas–Fort Worth area, relocating to Houston. At this time, however, guitarist Rocky Hill wanted to focus on "straight blues", while his brother Dusty wanted the band to rock more. Rocky left the band, and the remaining two members joined the recently formed ZZ Top.

Rocky Hill continued to tour around Texas, and elsewhere, becoming one of a number of guitarists well-known within the state for their blues guitar prowess, such as Rocky Athis and Charlie Sexton. In this role, his playing in Austin was said[by whom?] to have been an influence on guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan's formative years, as well. He sometimes referred to himself as "The Anti-Clapton", and one writer with the Houston Press called Rocky "perhaps the wildest and scariest – both onstage and off – of all the Texas white-boy blues guitarists."

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Tracks:
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01. You Were So Close To Me - 3:32
02. Wonder Man - 2:25
03. Just Plain Jane - 2:37
04. Shady - 2:08
05. Comin' Back Home - 5:35
06. Captain Fire - 3:20
07. Chocolate Ego - 3:06
08. Nightmare Of A Wise Man - 3:26
09. Dreams - 2:58
10. Softly To The Sun - 2:34

Personnel
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Dusty Hill - Bass, Lead Vocals
Frank Beard - Drums, Vocals
Rocky Hill - Guitar, Vocals
Doug Davis - Keyboards, Vocals

Notes
Recorded August to October 1968.