Though descended from country royalty, Carlene prefers to call herself simply “a Carter girl”— a phrase that lent itself to a 2014 album. There is a fearlessness about us Carter women.

As ZZ Top take their live greatest hits album on tour, their lead singer and guitarist Billy Gibbons talks Kiran Acharya through his top 13 LPs, setting aside some of his more well-worn classics in ...