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"Sharp Dressed Man" is a song by American rock band ZZ Top, released on their 1983 album Eliminator. The song was produced by band manager Bill Ham , and recorded and mixed by Terry Manning . Pre-production recording engineer Linden Hudson was very involved in the early stages of this song's production.
Nickelback started this year's ceremony, playing the hit ZZ Top song, "Sharp Dressed Man". Billy Bob Thornton then announced the Texas trio. After a biography video, the band took the stage and performed their MTV video hit "Gimme All Your Lovin'", followed by "La Grange", Dusty Hill's signature song "Tush" and finished with "Cheap Sunglasses".
ZZ Top: A Tribute from Friends is the fourth tribute album to honor American blues-rock band ZZ Top. It includes performances from Daughtry , Nickelback , Wolfmother , Filter and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith among others.
Ham claimed the album was solely the work of ZZ Top, but in 1986 Hudson won a lawsuit establishing himself as composer of the song "Thug". Music videos for "Gimme All Your Lovin'", "Sharp Dressed Man" and "Legs" received regular rotation on MTV and helped ZZ Top gain popularity with a younger base.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic said that the album was "crackling with energy and with just enough vivid reinterpretations to make it enjoyable for fans of either the artists involved or ZZ Top." [1] Brian Baker of Country Standard Time writes, "A little more grit and the compilers would have had a rocking ZZ Top tribute. Of course, a ...
ZZ Top [a] is an American rock band formed in Houston, Texas, in 1969. For 51 years, it consisted of vocalist-guitarist Billy Gibbons, drummer Frank Beard and bassist-vocalist Dusty Hill, until Hill's death in 2021. ZZ Top developed a signature sound based on Gibbons' blues style and Hill and Beard's rhythm section. They are known for their ...
The Wright Brothers Band covered the song on the soundtrack for the 1987 film Overboard. Nickelback covered the song on the 2011 ZZ Top: A Tribute from Friends. Kid Rock covered the song on the 2002 album WWF Forceable Entry. [41]
Lonestar released a version of the song in 2002 for the album Sharp Dressed Men: A Tribute to ZZ Top. In 2011, American band Filter covered the song for the tribute album ZZ Top: A Tribute from Friends. [10]