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((Infobox album
| name         = Tejas
| type         = [[Album]]
| artist       = [[ZZ Top]]
| cover        = ZZ Top - Tejas.jpg
| alt          = 
| released     = November 29, 1976<ref>''Billboard'', November 20, 1976, page 66, "London Promo for ZZ Top 'Tejas'", [...LP ships Nov. 29th]</ref>
| recorded     = 1976
| studio       = 
| genre        = *[[Southern rock]]
*[[blues rock]]
*[[boogie rock]]
| length       = 34:38
| label        = [[London Records|London]]
| producer     = [[Bill Ham]]
| prev_title   = [[Fandango!]]
| prev_year    = 1975
| next_title   = [[The Best of ZZ Top]]
| next_year    = 1977
| misc         = ((Singles
 | name        = Tejas
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = [[It's Only Love (ZZ Top song)|It's Only Love]]
 | single1date = 1976
 | single2     = [[Arrested for Driving While Blind]]
 | single2date = 1977
 | single3     = Enjoy and Get It On
 | single3date = 1977
))
))

'''''Tejas''''' is the fifth studio album by the American [[rock music|rock]] band [[ZZ Top]]. It was released in late November 1976, on the [[London Recordings|London]] label. The title is a [[Caddo language]] word meaning "friends", which is the origin of the name of the band's home state, [[Texas]].

== Background and release ==
((listen
| filename    = Arrested for Driving While Blind.ogg
| title       = Arrested for Driving While Blind
| description = audio clip (original vinyl 1976 mix)
| pos         = 
))
Frontman [[Billy Gibbons]] said about the album:

<blockquote>It's fair to say that this is a transitional record, although I'm not really sure what we were transitioning from and what we were becoming. (laughs) It may be representative of how rapidly things were changing in the studio.

The equipment was becoming more modernized, and the way that music was being recorded was different – things were moving faster. It was still pre-digital, but there was better gear that was more readily available. We made use of it all.

This period was the wrinkle that kind of suggested what was to come, and change would become a necessary part of the ZZ Top fabric.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/billy-gibbons-talks-zz-top-the-complete-studio-albums-1970-1990-575728|title=Billy Gibbons talks ZZ Top: The Complete Studio Albums (1970-1990)|author=Joe Bosso|date=June 2013|website=Musicradar.com|access-date=8 June 2021))</ref>
</blockquote>

''Tejas'' was produced by [[Bill Ham]] and recorded and mixed by [[Terry Manning]]. In 1987, a [[digital recording|digitally]] remixed version of the recording was released on CD and the original 1976 mix version was discontinued. The remix version created controversy among fans because it significantly changed the instrument balance and the sound of the instruments, especially the drums.

''Tejas'' was released as a [[Music download|digital download]] on [[Amazon.com]]'s MP3 store and [[iTunes Store|iTunes]] in 2012, with the original mixes of the tracks that are included on ''[[Chrome, Smoke & BBQ]]'', and the 1987 remixes of the tracks that are not from that boxset. The original mix of the album was released on CD in June 2013 as part of the box set ''The Complete Studio Albums (1970–1990)''.<ref>((cite web|last=Gallucci|first=Michael|title=New ZZ Top Box Will Include Original Mixes of First 10 Albums|url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/zz-top-box-set-original-mixes/|work=Ultimateclassicrock.com|date=30 April 2013 |access-date=May 2, 2013))</ref>

== Critical reception ==
((Album reviews
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = ((Rating|2|5))<ref>((AllMusic|class=album|id=r22731))</ref>
|rev2 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
|rev2Score = C+<ref name="CG">((cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: Z|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=Z&bk=70|access-date=March 9, 2019))</ref>
|rev3 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
|rev3score = (not rated)<ref>((cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061127153426/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/zztop/albums/album/225223/review/5945388/tejas |title=Tejas  |publisher=rollingstone.com |last=Oppenheimer |first=Dan |access-date=8 October 2023))</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev4score = ((Rating|2.5|5))<ref name="Cross">((cite book|last=Cross|first=Charles R.|author-link=Charles R. Cross|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]]|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|edition=4th|year=2004|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|chapter=ZZ Top|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/907 907-8]))</ref>
))
In a contemporaneous review of the album Richard Riegel of ''[[Creem]]'' called ''Tejas'' an album that "sings of those Southwestern lyrical staples... but with greater immediacy than the I'm-all-dressed-up-in-my-Roy-Rogers-cowboy-suit Eagles".<ref>((cite magazine |last=Riegal |first=Richard |date=April 1977 |title=ZZ Top: Tejas (London) |magazine= Creem |location=London))</ref> He compared the album to that of Peter Frampton's ''[[Frampton Comes Alive!]]'', but observes that ''Tejas'' might outsell Frampton.

Barry Cain of ''[[Record Mirror]]'' wrote in a review that ''Tejas'' was highlighted by the songs "Arrested For Driving While Blind" and "El Diablo". He states that "El Diablo" had "struck him as being about the most haunting song he ever come across".<ref>((cite news |last1=Cain |first1=Barry |title=ZZ Top: Tejas (London LDU 1) |work=Record Mirror |date=19 February 1977))</ref> Cain also praised the vocals and guitar playing of Billy Gibbons on the album.

Writing for the ''Something Else!'' webzine in 2016, M. C. Mosquito said, "There are actually a lot of very good songs on ''Tejas'', but many critics and much of the public dismissed it as ZZ Top gone "[[country music|countrified]]," in part because of the twangy opener "It's Only Love." ... The rest of the record, however, is only a little more country than the rest of the band's initial albums. Had that song been shuffled down elsewhere in the sequence and replaced with something like "Ten Dollar Man" as the lead off track, maybe the twang tone factor wouldn't have been so noticeable, making it more marketable to the rock 'n' roll crowd. Then again, there's some pretty countrified fiddle in there too, so maybe the country label is kind of legit."<ref>((Cite web |url=https://somethingelsereviews.com/2016/02/18/zz-top-tejas/ |title=ZZ Top – 'Tejas' (1976): Shadows in Stereo |first=J. C. |last=Mosquito |date=February 18, 2016  |access-date=October 8, 2023))</ref>

== Track listing ==
((tracklist
| all_writing = [[Billy Gibbons]], [[Dusty Hill]], and [[Frank Beard (musician)|Frank Beard]], except where noted
| headline = Side one
| extra_column = Lead vocals 
| title1 = [[It's Only Love (ZZ Top song)|It's Only Love]]
| extra1 = Gibbons, Hill 
| length1 = 4:24
| title2 = [[Arrested for Driving While Blind]]
| extra2 = Gibbons 
| length2 = 3:05
| title3 = El Diablo
| extra3 = Gibbons
| length3 = 4:20
| title4 = Snappy Kakkie
| extra4 = Gibbons
| length4 = 2:56
| title5 = Enjoy and Get It On
| extra5 = Gibbons
| length5 = 3:23
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((tracklist
| headline = Side two
| extra_column = Lead vocals
| title1 = Ten Dollar Man
| extra1 = Hill
| length1 = 3:42
| title2 = Pan Am Highway Blues
| extra2 = Gibbons, Hill
| length2 = 3:15
| title3 = Avalon Hideaway
| extra3 = Hill 
| length3 = 3:07
| title4 = She's a Heartbreaker
| extra4 = Gibbons
| length4 = 3:02
| title5 = Asleep in the Desert
| length5 = 3:24
| writer5 = Gibbons
| extra5 = instrumental
))

== Personnel ==
;ZZ Top
* [[Billy Gibbons]] – guitar, [[singing|vocals]], harmonica
* [[Dusty Hill]] – bass, vocals
* [[Frank Beard (musician)|Frank Beard]] – drums, percussion

;Additional personnel
* [[Lenny Solomon]] – violin ((small|("She's a Heartbreaker")))

=== Production ===
*Producer – [[Bill Ham]]
*Engineer – [[Terry Manning]]
*Mastering – Larry Nix
*Photography – Lee and Lesser
*Album concept – Bill Ham
*Album design – [[Bill Narum]]

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+Weekly chart performance for ''Tejas''
! scope="col"| Chart (1976–1977)
! scope="col"| Peak<br />position
|-
! scope="row"|Australian Albums ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=aus>((cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=348))</ref>
| align="center"| 72
|-
((Album chart|Canada|3|artist=ZZ Top|album=Tejas|chartid=5269a|rowheader=true|accessdate=July, 8 2023))
|-
!scope="row"|Japanese Albums ([[Oricon]])<ref name="JPN">((cite book|title=Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005|publisher=[[Oricon|Oricon Entertainment]]|location=Roppongi, Tokyo|year=2006|isbn=4-87131-077-9|language=ja))</ref>
| align="center"| 42
|-
((Album chart|Sweden|21|artist=ZZ Top|album=Tejas|rowheader=true|accessdate=July, 8 2023))
|-
((Album chart|Billboard200|17|artist=ZZ Top|rowheader=true|accessdate=July, 8 2023))
|}

==Certifications==
((certification Table Top|caption=Certifications for ''Tejas''))
((certification Table Entry|type=album|region=United States|artist=ZZ Top|title=Tejas|award=Gold|certyear=1977|relyear=1976|access-date=December 9, 2019))
((Certification Table Bottom | nosales=true))

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
*((youTube|Md7t70PyVoM|Ten Dollar Man))

((ZZ Top))

((Authority control))

[[Category:ZZ Top albums]]
[[Category:1976 albums]]
[[Category:London Records albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Bill Ham]]

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