Industry events are often staid affairs, full of long-winded speeches and by-the-numbers performances. That’s never the case at the BMI Troubadour Award dinner, the unofficial kickoff of AmericanaFest week in Nashville, which this year honored John Fogerty for “artistry that has transcended genres and generations while shaping the American musical …
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Standing in the basement of the Harrah’s Cherokee Center in downtown Asheville, North Carolina, Billy F. Gibbons is recalling the moment he received his first guitar. He was only 13. “It was Christmas Day,” the 73-year-old ZZ Top frontman tells Rolling Stone. “[All these years later], there’s so many different …
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ZZ Top were never really a ballad band. Think “La Grange,” “Tush,” and “Legs.” But for 1986’s Afterburner they tried their hand at a power ballad with “Rough Boy” — this was the Eighties after all. Earlier this week in Nashville, Keith Urban put his own spin on “Rough Boy” …
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An all-star cast of guitar heroes, vocalists, and sidemen will pay tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd at the 2023 CMT Music Awards. Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, and Gov’t Mule’s Warren Haynes will all plug in their axes for a performance of two yet-to-be-named Skynyrd hits, while …
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Billy Gibbons linked up with Elvis Costello to play a handful of ZZ Top classics during a special charity gig in Nashville Sunday night, March 12. Gibbons and Costello played a slew of hits, including ZZ Top’s “Sharp Dressed Man,” “Jesus Just Left Chicago,” “Thunderbird,” and “La Grange.” Gibbons also …
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ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd have shared stages multiple times over the years — in fact, they have a joint tour on the books for this summer. So when ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons learned that Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington died Sunday at 71, he found himself thinking back to …
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Billy Gibbons knows what time it is. When Courtney Benson — manager for the Time‘s perennially sharp dressed man, Morris Day — spotted the ZZ Top frontman’s mile-long beard at the Beverly Hills Hotel, he introduced himself. “Billy got up in the middle of the lounge and did my famous …
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Mick Fleetwood honored Fleetwood Mac co-founder Peter Green with a star-studded concert at London Palladium on Tuesday, which benefited Teenage Cancer Trust. The show included appearances by David Gilmour, Steven Tyler, Neil Finn, Pete Townshend, Billy Gibbons, Christine McVie, Bill Wyman, Kirk Hammett, and Noel Gallagher among other luminaries. “The …
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Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme has recruited Primus bassist Les Claypool, ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons and more for the latest all-star installment of The Desert Sessions, his long-running stoner/hard-rock collective series. Volumes 11 and 12, Arrivederci DespairandTightwads & Nitwits & Critics & Heels, are out October 25th …
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