Listen to Clutch’s cover of ZZ Top’s Precious And Grace

By Scott Munro
( Classic Rock )
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Clutch launch neon-tinged lyric video for their cover of ZZ Top’s Tres Hombres track Precious And Grace

Clutch (Image credit: Weathermaker Records)

Clutch (opens in new tab) have released a lyric video for their cover of ZZ Top (opens in new tab) track Precious And Grace.

The original version featured on Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard’s third studio album Tres Hombres (opens in new tab) back in 1973, with Clutch recording their version as part of their Weathermaker Vault Series.

Last month, they released their take on Evil (opens in new tab) – which was originally written by American blues musician Willie Dixon, with Howlin’ Wolf releasing the track through Chess Records in 1954.

Further songs in the series are expected to be released in due course.

Clutch vocalist Neil Fallon says: “It should be fairly obvious by now that Clutch are huge fans of ZZ Top. They’re a band that we grew up listening to – and we still listen to them to this day.

“Precious And Grace is easily one of our favourite ZZ Top songs and that’s really the only story behind the choice.”

The release comes just days before Clutch embark on a co-headline tour with Killswitch Engage (opens in new tab), with the band returning to the UK and Europe later this year.

Clutch have also curated a Spotify playlist titled Clutch’s Heavy Rotation which features dozens of their favourite tracks which can also be found below.

Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.