_photo by Kirk West_

Earlier this month, Gov’t Mule released The Tel-Star Sessions, a recording of the band at their first studio sessions in 1994 with their original lineup of Warren Haynes, Allen Woody and Matt Abts. Included in the record is a cover of ZZ Top’s “Just Got Paid,” and now the tune has an animated video to go along with it.

The video, which premiered via Diffuser, can be viewed below. When the band premiered the recording, Haynes commented that it was one of the first covers the group learned together and that “early ZZ Top was definitely an influence on the Mule.”

Gov’t Mule will kick off a tour with ZZ Top next month after closing out their dates with Blackberry Smoke, with a run starting September 9. “We’re looking forward to this tour that we’re going to do together,” Haynes tells Diffuser. “I think it’s kind of a nice full-circle thing. I’m glad to see them still doing it all of these years later and keeping what they do alive as part of the overall picture. ZZ Top has reinvented themselves a few times, and very few bands have that opportunity. But everything they do still has the blues as the core of it.”

Watch the video for “Just Got Paid” below, and see Mule’s full tour dates here.