#40 "LA GRANGE"
ZZ TOP, 1973

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Before they were slick techno rockers perfecting synchronized guitar twirling, the boys in ZZ Top were good old fashioned southern fried blues rock to the highest order.  The opening guitar from "La Grange" is the stuff of legend.  Borrowing from the John Lee Hooker song "Boogie Chillen", Billy Gibbons starts strumming with a fuzzy groove that makes you think of driving a convertible across the desert.  Used in at least a hundred commercials and movies since it was first released, "La Grange" is easily one of the more recognizable guitar openings of any rock song. 

-Robert Berry

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