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ZZ Top announce new live album, Raw
By Jackson Maxwell published
The album captures the Texas trio's bare-bones, 11-song 2019 set at Gruene Hall, “the oldest continually run dance hall in Texas”
Billy Gibbons gives Jingle Bells a blues makeover in his cover of the Christmas classic
By Sam Roche published
Jingle Bell Blues sees the bearded ZZ Top legend serve up some fiery fretboard antics in the hopes of earning a place on wreath-bedecked jukeboxes worldwide
Dusty Hill 1949-2021: paying tribute to the bearded boss of bass guitar
By Jamie Blaine published
When the ZZ Top bassist left us on July 27, he left a legacy like few others. We look back at the career of a true bass original
Billy F. Gibbons: “We let off steam by letting it rock... Hardware is a raging rocker but always mindful of the desert’s implicit mystery”
By Alan Paul published
Why the ZZ Top legend headed to the California High Desert to seek rock ’n’ roll inspiration
Billy Gibbons: “I was fearless when I started playing, but learning that agonizing F chord was miserable!”
By Grant Moon published
With new solo album Hardware in record stores, the ZZ Top icon sits down with TG to share some hard-earned wisdom
Dusty Hill recorded bass and vocal parts for a new ZZ Top album, Billy Gibbons reveals
By Matt Owen published
The late bass guitar great will feature on the yet-to-be-announced record, though his parts are still in need of some "completion work"
Watch footage of ZZ Top's first shows since bassist Dusty Hill's death
By Sam Roche published
The band recruited longtime guitar tech Elwood Francis to handle bass duties – with Hill's full blessing, according to frontman Billy Gibbons
Dusty Hill, 1949-2021: the guitar world pays tribute
By Matt Owen published
Ozzy Osbourne, Flea, Joe Bonamassa, Zakk Wylde, Paul Stanley, Jason Isbell, David Coverdale and many more pay their respects to the legendary ZZ Top bass player
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