When ZZ Top got around to recording their third album, 1973’s Tres Hombres, they’d already found their sound, thanks to engineer Robin Brian, who had guitarist Billy Gibbons overdub and double-up his guitar parts when producer and manager Bill Ham was out of the room. This time, the trio cut short their sessions at Robin Hood studios in Tyler, Texas, and headed to Ardent Studios in Memphis in hopes of expanding their oeuvre. With Terry Manning at the board, the group made an album that was, in the words of Gibbons, “big and bold” and definitely a “turning point” for ZZ Top and their trajectory. Tres Hombres, their first platinum album, was also mixed in quad. Over 50 years later, Rhino has enhanced that mix for its Quadio Blu-ray Disc series. Stand back and take cover.

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