La Grange

La Grange was released as a single in January 1974 and rose to number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1974. Its title and lyrics refer to a brothel on the outskirts of La Grange, Fayette County, Texas, later called the Chicken Ranch, which also inspired The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. The song was produced by Bill Ham, and the B-side was Just Got Paid from Rio Grande Mud.

The groove rests on a traditional boogie blues rhythm that John Lee Hooker used in Boogie Chillen'. In 1992 the music publisher Bernard Besman, who had a co-credit on Boogie Chillen', sued the band, and a federal judge dismissed the case in 1995, saying that song was in the public domain. Pitchfork describes the shuffle as equal parts Hooker's Boogie Chillun and Slim Harpo's Shake Your Hips, and notes its use in films including Striptease and Armageddon. Cash Box called it a hard driving delight in 1974. Rolling Stone ranked it 74 on its list of the 100 greatest guitar songs, and Q ranked it 92 in 2005. ZZ Top played it at their 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction and with Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line at the 2014 CMT Awards. It re-entered the Billboard charts in March 2020 after the documentary That Little Ol' Band from Texas.