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ZZ Top Musical to Hit the Stage in 2020
A ZZ Top musical is in the works and expected to open in Las Vegas in 2020. The band is working with Caesars Entertainment to develop the show and members Billy F. Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard are serving as executive producers. A press release calls Sharp Dressed Man an “outrageous, bawdy musical romp”. … Continue reading ZZ Top Musical to Hit the Stage in 2020
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ZZ Top Announce 50th Anniversary Tour
ZZ Top will celebrate their 50th anniversary with a U.S. tour this summer. Cheap Trick and Southern rock stalwarts Lynyrd Skynyrd will join the tour for select dates. The extensive 34-show run kicks off August 16th in Ridgefield, WA and wraps up October 20th in West Palm Beach, FL. The tour will stop in 19 different … Continue reading ZZ Top Announce 50th Anniversary Tour
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ZZ Top Announce 50th Anniversary UK and European Tour
ZZ Top will take their 50th anniversary celebration to Europe and the UK in 2019. The blues-rock trio has announced three initial dates with the bulk of the dates set to be announced soon. The tour is slated to get underway in early June in Scandinavian countries and heads to central Europe thereafter, concluding in … Continue reading ZZ Top Announce 50th Anniversary UK and European Tour
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Hear Billy Gibbons’ New Muddy Waters Cover ‘Standing Around Crying’
As Billy Gibbons prepares for the release of his forthcoming solo project, the ZZ Top guitarist has released a second Muddy Waters cover from the album, this time of “Standing Around Crying”. Gibbons told Ultimate Classic Rock that the song’s cadence called to mind “the rhythm of choppin’ that wood,” inspiring the vintage lumberjack footage featured … Continue reading Hear Billy Gibbons’ New Muddy Waters Cover ‘Standing Around Crying’
