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November 15, 2005

ZZ Top Get Whacked

Texas blues trio celebrates thirty-five years with intimate New York show
February 25, 2004

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2004: ZZ Top

Texas blooze men celebrate thirty years of fuzz
June 6, 1974

ZZ Top: Hombres Riding North

Texas blues rockers break out of Dixie

Chrome, Smoke & BBQ: The ZZ Top Box Set

In the Seventies, they figured out the grand gestures of arena rock. In the Eighties, they had all the right ideas about video when MTV flowered. So what if they mostly sang about sex, cars, beer, food and Texas? ZZ Top were true to their blues roots, and they made you feel good enough to party. The...

2003 RS: 4of 5 Stars

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ZZ Top began as a rough-and-ready blues-rock power trio from Texas that became a huge mid-'70s concert attraction. Their real commercial peak didn't come, however, until the '80s, when the "Little Ol' Band from Texas" became MTV superstars and sold multiple millions of albums.

ZZ Top was built around guitarist Billy Gibbons, whose career began with the popular Southwestern band Moving Sidewalks,...

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