Rhythmeen by ZZ Top, album cover

Album · 30 years old this year

Rhythmeen

Released17 September 1996

LabelRCA

Popularity56.0

Also cited4 September 1996

blues rock blues rock boogie rock hard rock

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Rhythmeen is ZZ Top's twelfth studio album, released on 17 September 1996 through RCA. It follows Antenna from 1994 and comes before XXX in 1999, so it sits in the late-1990s stretch of the Texas trio's long career. It's also the last record they made with Bill Ham, who had produced them for years.

The band work in blues and blues rock here, the territory they'd been rooted in since their early albums in the 1970s. For anyone who knows them mainly through the glossy sound of Eliminator and Afterburner, it's a chance to hear them in a rawer, more blues-minded frame. It's worth hearing as the close of one chapter in the band's story, and as a bridge to the records that followed.

Rhythmeen: tracklist and credits

12 tracks · 54:09

Tracklist

1RhythmeenBilly Gibbons3:53
2Bang BangBilly Gibbons4:29
3Black FlyBilly Gibbons3:33
4What’s Up With ThatGibbons, Hardy, Ingram, Rice5:20
5Vincent Price BluesBeard, Gibbons, Hill6:04
6Zipper JobBeard, Gibbons, Hill4:15
7HairdresserBilly Gibbons and Joe Hardy3:50
8She’s Just Killing MeBeard, Gibbons, Hill4:57
9My Mind Is GoneGibbons, Hardy, Moon, Wonder4:06
10LoadedBilly Gibbons and Joe Hardy3:48
11PrettyheadBeard, Gibbons, Hill4:40
12Hummbucking, Part 2Beard, Gibbons, Hill5:13

Produced by: Billy Gibbons, Bill Ham
Recorded at: Ardent Studios
Recorded: February–June 1996
Mixed by: Joe Hardy
Engineered by: Joe Hardy
Label: RCA
Length: 54:09

Line-up

Frank Beard · drums (drum set)
Billy Gibbons · guitar, lead vocals
Dusty Hill · bass guitar, lead vocals

Singles

“She's Just Killing Me” · 1996
“What's Up with That” · 1996

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Releases and pressings

How we know the release date wikipedia + wikidata; also seen: 1996-09-04 (musicbrainz)

Source	Date	Note
MusicBrainz	4 September 1996
Wikipedia infobox	17 September 1996
Wikidata	17 September 1996
US release	17 September 1996	earliest US date
UK / Europe release	9 September 1996	earliest UK or European date

6 editions

Date	Country	Label	Barcode	Kind
1996	RU	RCA	828765432221	other
1996	XE	RCA	886974794523	other
4 September 1996	JP	RCA	4988017064870	original
9 September 1996	XE	RCA	743213946627	other
17 September 1996	US	RCA	078636695624	other
22 June 2009	XW	RCA	078636695624	other

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