Falcon, Gabriel (July 21, 2019). "ZZ Top: After 50 years they've still got legs". CBS News . Retrieved March 4, 2020. a b c d "Gold & Platinum – ZZ Top". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved August 22, 2021. In November 2020, it was announced that the 2019 Netflix documentary That Little Ol' Band from Texas was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Music Film with the award ceremony scheduled for March 2021. [96] Awards and achievements [ edit ] John Edgar: When this initially released I was completely unaware of the first two albums and I had only heard a select few songs from Tres Hombres. Also, a lot of people, even in Texas where I grew up, had not yet had a chance to see ZZ Top play live. Their growing legend was just beginning to get a some real attention, so during the promotional period leading up to the initial release of Fandango! the live side was an anticipated thing, and at the time of release was considered to be a real 'Barn Burner'. I heard Mellow Down Easy at a lot of parties that year. Add to that the fact that Side B is just killer ( Heard It On The X is ridiculously good) and you have what I consider to be one of the best ZZ Top albums. Frost, Deborah (1985). ZZ Top - Bad and Worldwide. New York: Rolling Stone Press. pp.103, 106–107, 115. ISBN 0020029500.

John Davidson: A tale of two sides. I'll be honest and say I really didn't find the live set on Side 1 all that interesting. Fairly standard blues covers with some unusual vocal work , but nothing that set my pulse racing. Side 2 however was great.Matrix / Runout (Scribed in runout B, Variant 1, [STERLING is stamped]): SAHS-1661-2X RL T1 STERLING Miller, Jim (July 3, 1975). "ZZ Top: Fandango!". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on November 12, 2007. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (July 28, 2021). "ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill dies at 72". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved August 22, 2021. New ZZ Top tour features West Seattle talent". West Seattle Herald. September 7, 2012 . Retrieved February 22, 2015. Rotman, Natalie (January 23, 2010). "O'Brien ends run on 'Tonight' show after 7 months" (Press release). Associated Press. Archived from the original on June 2, 2017 . Retrieved May 9, 2015.

ZZ Top had already made at least one better album than Fandango! and would go on to make two or three more, but Fandango! has all the fun that the album title implies. After gaining additional acclaim with the release of their tenth album, Recycler (1990), and its accompanying tour, the group's experimentation continued with mixed success on the albums Antenna (1994), Rhythmeen (1996), XXX (1999), and Mescalero (2003). They most recently released La Futura (2012) and Goin' 50 (2019), a compilation album commemorating the band's 50th anniversary. By the time of Hill's death in 2021, ZZ Top had become the longest-running band with an unchanged lineup in the history of popular music. [1] Per Hill's wishes, he was replaced by their longtime guitar tech, Elwood Francis, on bass. Matrix / Runout (Scribed in runout A, Variant 2, [STERLING is stamped]): T/ SAHS 1660-1 E7 STERLING RL a b Dansby, Andrew (February 16, 2013). "Greig, early ZZ Top member, dies at 64". Houston Chronicle . Retrieved July 28, 2014. But not before providing some amazing photographic evidence for the inner sleeve – in part to help explain their long absence from recording, and in part to inform fans that ZZ's long-awaited return was in fact a a half-live, half-studio proposition.

Uncle Joe Benson – The Story: ZZ Top 9-11-15 The Stor". SoundCloud. Archived from the original on October 7, 2015 . Retrieved September 13, 2015. Johnson, Kevin (August 7, 2021). "Dusty Hill's Bass and Vocals Will Be on Next ZZ Top Album". No Treble . Retrieved August 9, 2021.

Hlavaty, Craig (February 10, 2020). "ZZ Top played its first show together 50 years ago". houstonchronicle.com . Retrieved May 25, 2022. Just listening for the 784,654th time....and it's just perfect in every way. Just incredible. The only reason it was remade was to scoop up a boatload of money from a more modern and accepting audience. But it is a completely different song than the other one that sounds slapped together in a few takes without a thought for the meaning. Straight off the bat with Nasty Dogs, my feet started tapping and my head nodded along to the groove. Add to that a fantastic guitar solo and bingo. It hits the spot. Blue Jeans Blues conforms to the template of fairly standard blues guitar lament but it's a good example of its kind.Tito Lesende Galán: Oh, man. I don't think this is the most balanced album by ZZ Top. But it's got Tush (and that single's great B-side, Blue Jean Blues). You know, Tush is so spectacular a monument that it seems to have existed from Day One.