Lockdown Licks no.32
“La Grange” by ZZ Top.
Signature riff and bridge riff with lead run in style of Billy Gibbons including a pinched harmonic note. played on Gibson Junior with amp on classic setting, no reverb.
“La Grange” is a song by the American rock group ZZ Top, from their 1973 album Tres Hombres. One of ZZ Top’s most successful songs, it was released as a single in 1973 and received extensive radio play, rising to No. 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1974. The song refers to a brothel on the outskirts of La Grange, Texas, later called the “Chicken Ranch”.