Their influences are both the originators of the form-Muddy Waters, B.B. As genuine roots musicians, they have few peers. The elements that keep ZZ Top fresh, enduring, and above the transitory fray can be summed up in the three words of the band’s internal mantra: tone, taste, and tenacity. But Dusty’s return was not to be, and Elwood continues to handle the bass duties for the band now and into the future. When Dusty temporarily departed the tour in the summer of 2021, it was a given that Elwood would be the perfect choice to stand in for Dusty until he could return. The band’s lineup of the bearded Gibbons and Hill and Beard, who ironically is clean shaven, remained intact for more than 50 years until Dusty’s passing. It was one of the music industry’s first albums to have been certified diamond, with US domestic sales exceeding 10 million.Īs a touring entity, they’ve been without peer over the past five decades, having performed before millions of fans on four continents, and have been the subject of their own Grammy-nominated documentary, titled That Little Ol’ Band From Texas. Their roots-blues skew was intact but added to the mix were tech-age trappings that soon found a visual outlet with such tracks as Sharp Dressed Man and Legs on the nascent MTV. Eliminator, their 1983 album was something of a paradigm shift for ZZ Top.
Their third album, 1973’s Tres Hombres, catapulted them to national attention with the hit La Grange, still one of the band’s signature pieces today. It was in Houston, in the waning days of 1969, that ZZ Top coalesced from the core of two rival bands, Billy Gibbons’ Moving Sidewalks and Frank Beard and Dusty Hill’s American Blues. With iconography as distinctive as their sound, ZZ Top is virtually synonymous with beards, hotrod cars, spinning guitars, and that magic keychain, all of which transcend geography and language. See the the video here.“That Little Ol’ Band From Texas” has been at it for well over a half-century, delivering rock, blues, and boogie on the road and in the studio to millions of devoted fans. It should come to no surprise that in 2004, the original band members Billy F Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.ĭid you miss the segment on Chris Stapleton and Kevin Bacon and how they rewrote ZZ Top's 'Legs' on the Jimmy Fallon late night show? Comical and entertaining doesn't even begin to describe it. "La Grange," a three minute and forty-eight second song in this album continues to be their signature piece today.Īfter 34 years of "boogie, beards, cars and girls," ZZ Top took a nine-year break before the debut of their 2012 album LA FUTURA, home to their widely lauded song called "I Gotsta Get Paid," that has eventually became a video and in-concert sensation.
In 1973, ZZ Top released their third album Tres Hombres and because of its strong blues roots, it catapulted the bearded trio into the eyes of the nation. Music With Friends (Charlotte) is proud to announce that our next show of 2017 will be on Tuesday, October 17th with the legendary and soulful Texas trio, ZZ Top aka "That Little Ol' Band from Texas!"ĭid you know that ZZ Top debuted ZZ Top's First Album in 1969 in Houston, Texas and since then, have remained as the "longest running major rock band with its original personnel intact?" That's 48 years and counting of rock, blues and boogie on the road and in the studio.
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