🟥 🎧 This Ruby Tuesday, we listen to ZZ Top’s “Sharp Dressed Man”, covered by Larkin Poe — reduced to its essentials and sounding even stronger because of it. No band, no layers, no effects — just two girls with “tinned throats”, an acoustic guitar, a lap steel guitar, and a powerful Southern sound that carries grit, confidence, and that unmistakable edge.
In this context, Sharp Dressed Man is not about a suit or polished shoes. It’s about presence. About confidence that doesn’t need decoration. About posture, tone, and the way someone occupies space. “Sharp” here means self-assured, grounded, unmistakable.
Larkin Poe take a song built on swagger and strip it of surface gloss, leaving its core intact. The rhythm lives in the hands, the attitude in timing, and the grit in those steel-strong voices. What used to be a full-band anthem becomes something leaner — and, in its own way, heavier.
Proof that style isn’t volume or flash. Sometimes it’s just two instruments, two voices, and complete control of the moment.
🎵 “Every girl crazy ’bout a sharp dressed man…”