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Released
  
November 1979

Length
  
34:03

Artist
  
ZZ Top

Label
  
Warner Bros. Records

Recorded
  
1979

Degüello (1979)
  
El Loco (1981)

Release date
  
1979

Producer
  
Bill Ham

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Genres
  
Blues rock, Hard rock, Southern rock, Boogie rock, Texas blues

Similar
  
ZZ Top albums, Southern rock albums

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 is said to be done "a degüello", it means "no quarter" (as in "no surrender to be given or accepted--a fight to the death") in Spanish. It also 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.

Contents

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

Track listing

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

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

Personnel

  • Billy Gibbons – guitar, vocals, baritone saxophone
  • Dusty Hill – bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, lead vocal on "Hi Fi Mama", tenor saxophone
  • Frank Beard – drums, percussion, alto saxophone
  • Production

  • Producer – Bill Ham
  • Engineer – Terry Manning
  • Mastering engineer – Bob Ludwig
  • Album

    AlbumBillboard (North America)

    Singles

    SinglesBillboard (North America)

    Songs

    1I Thank You3:26
    2She Loves My Automobile2:23
    3I'm Bad - I'm Nationwide4:49

    References

    Degüello Wikipedia