AMERICAN BLUES-Do Their Thing (rare pre-ZZ Top UNI LP)

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AMERICAN BLUES – “Do Their Thing” (1968) UNI-73044 very rare original press – VG++/M- (cover/record)

This is a super rare Texas rock/psych album the featured Frank Beard and Dusty Hill before they founded ZZ Top with Billy Gibbons. Here, the duo are joined by Rocky Hill on lead guitar, and Doug Davis adds organ. Bassist Dusty Hill was the lead vocalist of the group, and obviously Frank Beard played drums..

The songs on this one include “You Were So Close to Me,” “Wonder Man,” “Just Plain Jane,” “Shady,” “Comin’ Back Home,” “Captain Fire,” “Chocolate Ego,” “Nightmare of a Wise Man,” “Dreams,” and “Softly to the Sun.”

This is an original pressing. The cover is just about perfect with almost no wear and only one slightly curled corner at front top left. There’s also a promo sticker on the front bottom left corner. The vinyl is beautiful. I grade this conservatively VG++/M- (cover/record).

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I package all LPs securely in record mailers and remove the vinyl from the covers to prevent seam splits during mailing. I do not just stick your record in a priority mailer box from the post office or between two thin pieces of cardboard with no additional packaging materials like so many others!!!

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