Chrome, Smoke & BBQ

Chrome, Smoke & BBQ is a 4-CD box set by American rock band ZZ Top. Released in 2003, it is a compilation album of material from the band's tenures with London Records and Warner Bros. Records, recorded from 1967 to 1992. An abbreviated 2-CD version of this compilation, Rancho Texicano: The Very Best of ZZ Top (2004), was released the following year.

Release of original mixes
At the time of its release in 2003, Chrome, Smoke & BBQ was noteworthy because it was the only CD release, except for the greatest hits album The Best of ZZ Top (1977/CD 1984), which used the original mixes of tracks from the band's first five studio albums. Other track or whole album CD releases for those five albums used remixed versions from 1987. (See The Six Pack box set.) These remixed versions displeased many fans because they significantly changed the sound from the original albums.

The Best of ZZ Top (1977) was first released on CD in 1984, and uses the original track mixes for the CD. It includes one track from ZZ Top's First Album, two from Rio Grande Mud, four from Tres Hombres and three from Fandango!. Tres Hombres and Fandango! were reissued on CD in 2006, and were remastered using the original mixes. Chrome, Smoke & BBQ is the first ZZ Top track compilation release to include anything from the Tejas album.

In 2013, Warner Bros. Records released the CD box set The Complete Studio Albums 1970–1990, which includes the first ten ZZ Top studio albums, all with their original mixes. The timeframe of that ten album box set corresponds basically with the timeframe of Chrome, Smoke & BBQ, that is, the London Records and Warner Bros. Records recording years.

Track listing
All tracks are written by Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard, except where noted.

ZZ Top

 * Billy Gibbons – guitar, vocals
 * Dusty Hill - bass, keyboards, vocals
 * Frank Beard - drums, percussion

Production and engineering

 * Steve Ames – Producer
 * James Austin – Liner Notes, Compilation Producer
 * Robin Brian – Engineer
 * Neal Ceppos – Mixing
 * Bert Frilot – Engineer
 * Bill Ham – Producer, Executive Producer
 * Joe Hardy – Engineer
 * Doyle E. Jones – Engineer
 * Terry Kane – Engineer
 * Bob Ludwig – Engineer
 * Terry Manning – Engineer
 * Larry Nix – Engineer
 * Jim Reeves – Engineer

Photography

 * Bob Alford – Photography
 * Hugh Brown – Photography
 * George Craig – Photography
 * George DuBose – Photography
 * Ross Halfin – Photography
 * Mika Hashimoto – Photography
 * Lee – Photography
 * Dee Lippingwell – Photography
 * Tony Mottram – Photography
 * Bill Reitzel – Photography
 * Bill Straus – Photography
 * Jodi Summers – Photography
 * Charlyn Zlotnik – Photography

Other

 * Farrah Fawcett – Quotes Researched & Compiled
 * David Lynch – Quotes Researched & Compiled
 * Bob Merlis – Interviewer
 * Ann Richards – Quotes Researched & Compiled
 * Kid Rock – Quotes Researched & Compiled
 * Billy Bob Thornton – Quotes Researched & Compiled
 * Tom Vickers – Liner Notes
 * Dwight Yoakam – Quotes Researched & Compiled