Degüello

This article is about the ZZ Top album. For the bugle call, see El Degüello.
Degüello
Studio album by ZZ Top
Released November 1979[1]
Recorded 1979
Genre Texas blues, blues rock, boogie rock, southern rock, hard rock
Length 34:03
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Bill Ham
ZZ Top chronology

The Best of ZZ Top
(1977)		 Degüello
(1979)		 El Loco
(1981)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic link
Robert Christgau A− link
Smash Hits 8/10[2]

Degüello is the sixth studio album by the American rock band ZZ Top, released in 1979 (see 1979 in music). "Degüello" means "cut/slit someone's throat" or, idiomatically, when something it's said to be done "a degüello" means "no quarter" (as in "no surrender to be given or accepted--a fight to the death") in Spanish and was the title of a Moorish-origin bugle call used by the Mexican Army at the Battle of the Alamo, Texas, in 1836. It was the first ZZ Top release on Warner Bros. Records and eventually went platinum.

Degüello was produced by Bill Ham and engineered by Bob Ludwig and recorded and mixed by Terry Manning.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard, except where noted. 

Side A
No. Title Length
1. "I Thank You" (Isaac Hayes, David Porter) 3:23
2. "She Loves My Automobile"   2:24
3. "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide"   4:46
4. "A Fool for Your Stockings"   4:15
5. "Manic Mechanic"   2:37
Side B
No. Title Length
1. "Dust My Broom" (Robert Johnson) 3:06
2. "Lowdown in the Street"   2:49
3. "Hi Fi Mama"   2:23
4. "Cheap Sunglasses"   4:48
5. "Esther Be the One"   3:31

Original LP pressings of Degüello credited authorship of "Dust My Broom" to Elmore James.

Personnel

Production

Charts

Album

Album – Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Position
1980 Pop Albums 24
1984 The Billboard 200 183

Singles

Singles – Billboard (North America)

Year Single Chart Position
1980 "Cheap Sunglasses" Pop Singles 89
1980 "I Thank You" Pop Singles 34

References

  1. ↑ Edwards, Eyries and Callahan (2004). "WB Album Discography, Part 9". Both Sides Now Publications. Retrieved July 15, 2011.
  2. ↑ Hepworth, David. "ZZ Top: Deguello". Smash Hits (March 20 – April 2, 1999): 31.