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This sturdy American blues-rock trio from Texas consists of Billy Gibbons (guitar), Dusty Hill (bass), and Frank Beard (drums). They were formed in 1970 in and around Houston from rival bands the Moving Sidewalks (Gibbons) and American Blues (Hill and Beard). Their first two albums reflected the strong blues roots and Texas humor of the band. Their third album (Tres Hombres) gained them national attention with the hit "La Grange," a signature riff tune to this day, based on John Lee Hooker's "Boogie Chillen." Their success continued unabated throughout the '70s, culminating with the year-and-a-half-long Worldwide Texas Tour.

Exhausted from the overwhelming workload, they took a three-year break, then switched labels and returned to form with Deguello and El Loco, both harbingers of what was to come. By their next album, Eliminator, and its worldwide smash follow-up, Afterburner, they had successfully harnessed the potential of synthesizers to their patented grungy blues groove, giving their material a more contemporary edge while retaining their patented Texas style. Now sporting long beards, golf hats, and boiler suits, they met the emerging video age head-on, reducing their "message" to simple iconography. Becoming even more popular in the long run, they moved with the times while simultaneously bucking every trend that crossed their path. As genuine roots musicians, they have few peers; Gibbons is one of America's finest blues guitarists working in the arena rock idiom — both influenced by the originators of the form and British blues-rock guitarists like Peter Green — while Hill and Beard provide the ultimate rhythm section support.

One of the few rock & roll group with its original members still aboard after four decades, ZZ Top play music that is always instantly recognizable, eminently powerful, profoundly soulful, and 100% American in derivation. They have continued to support the blues through various means, perhaps most visibly when they were given a piece of wood from Muddy Waters' shack in Clarksdale, MS. The group members had it made into a guitar, dubbed the "Muddywood," then sent it out on tour to raise money for the Delta Blues Museum. ZZ Top's support and link to the blues remains as rock solid as the music they play. A concert CD and DVD, Live from Texas, recorded in Dallas in 2007 and featuring a still vital band, were both released in 2008. The Rick Rubin and Gibbons-produced La Futura, the band's 15th studio album, and the group's first new studio outing since 2003's Mescalero, appeared in 2012.

Title: The Best Of

Artist: ZZ Top

Genre: Blues Rock

Title: Tejas Mechanics

Artist: ZZ Top

Genre: Hard Rock

Title: Live Nationwide

Artist: ZZ Top

Genre: Pop

Title: Where's Frank (CD1)

Artist: ZZ Top

Genre: Rock

Title: Live Radio Broadcast

Artist: ZZ Top

Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, Pop

Title: The Best Of Blues

Artist: ZZ Top

Genre: Rock, Punk Rock

Title: The Heaviest

Artist: ZZ Top

Genre: Rock, Blues Rock

Title: Ten Songs For You

Artist: ZZ Top

Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, Pop

Title: Ultimate Collection

Artist: ZZ Top

Genre: Rock

Title: FM Broadcasts

Artist: Van Halen, ZZ Top

Genre: Rock, Punk Rock

Title: Live In New Jersey

Artist: ZZ Top

Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, Pop

Title: The Very Baddest Of

Artist: ZZ Top

Genre: Rock

Title: Just Got Paid

Artist: Mastodon, ZZ Top

Genre: Rock, Heavy Metal

Title: New Jersey 1980

Artist: ZZ Top

Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, Pop

Title: Bootlegs = Goodlegs

Artist: ZZ Top

Genre: Rock, Blues Rock

Title: Definitely Then CD1

Artist: ZZ Top

Genre: Hard Rock

Title: Cheap Sunglasses (Live)

Artist: ZZ Top

Genre: Blues, Rock

Title: Where's Frank (CD2)

Artist: ZZ Top

Genre: Rock

Collections

Title: Sonido Rock CD 2

Genre: Rock

Title: Sonido Rock CD 4

Genre: Rock

Title: Blues Ballads CD 3

Genre: Blues

Title: 100% Rock CD 1

Genre: Rock

Title: Rockklassiker

Genre: Rock

Title: Rockklassiker 2012

Genre: Blues

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