La Grange (song)

La Grange (song)

Infobox Single
Name = La Grange


Artist = ZZ Top
from Album = Tres Hombres
B-side = "Just Got Paid"
Released = 1973
Format = 7"
Recorded = Brian Studios
Ardent Studios
Memphis, Tennessee
Genre = Blues-rock, hard rock
Length = 3:51
Label = London
Writer = Billy Gibbons
Dusty Hill
Frank Beard
Producer = Bill Ham
Last single = "Waitin' for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago" (1973)
This single = "La Grange" (1973)
Next single = "Tush" (1975)

"La Grange" is a song by the rock group ZZ Top from their album "Tres Hombres", released in 1973. Considered to be "one-chord blues", it is one of their most successful songs. It was released in 1973 and received extensive radio play, rising to #41 in the "Billboard Pop Singles" list in 1974. The song refers to a country brothel on the outskirts of La Grange, Texas (later notoriously known as the "Chicken Ranch"). This brothel is also the subject of the Broadway play and film "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas", the latter starring Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds.

In March 2005, "Q" magazine placed "La Grange" at number 92 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks.Fact|date=February 2007.

Billy Gibbons indicated in Guitar World, Guitar Legends, that the lead was played with a 1955 Stratocaster with a stop tailpiece through a Marshall Super Lead 100 with Celestion greenback speakers.

In recent years, when the band played the song in concert, it has become a tradition for them to abruptly stop playing in the middle of it, at which point Gibbons and bassist Dusty Hill shout out, "Hell yeah!" before resuming the song.

The initial groove of the song is based on a traditional blues lick also used by John Lee Hooker in his "Boogie Chillen" and Slim Harpo's "Shake Your Hips."

Charts

Appearances and Covers

* The song was featured as the title track in the pinball machine "The Getaway".
* It has been used in many movies, including: "Shanghai Noon", "Striptease", "Armageddon","Man of the House", and the documentary "Dogtown and Z-Boys". A modified version of the song appears in the 2004 remake of "Walking Tall".
* A cover of the song by Junkie XL appears in the Xbox game "Forza Motorsport".
* A cover of this song, with an extended solo in the later part of the song (in order to cover up the final fade-out), was used for the music video game ', and '
* The song has been played multiple times on the G3 tour.
* The song is covered by the French artist Renaud Papillon Paravel as well as by Hank Williams Jr.
* The song was covered by Crazy Backwards Alphabet on their lone album.
* Tracy Byrd released a country version of the song in 2002 for the album "".
* Professional wrestler David Von Erich used this as his theme song in World Class Championship Wrestling.


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