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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

Recordings and Reviews

Deguello

So they're more popular than the Rolling Stones? So were Crosby, Stills and Nash. What makes ZZ Top a kitchen-slinger, party-time band from here to the Brazos is that, like Austin's Fabulous Thunderbirds, it's saved white blues from being yesterday's conceit. Or vice versa. No matter–the long-a...

2009 RS: Not Rated

Afterburner

2009

Eliminator (Collectors Edition)

2008

Eliminator

2008

Chrome, Smoke & BBQ: The ZZ Top Box Set

2008

XXX

1999

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Slash, Tommy Lee, and ZZ Top Exclusive from Battleground Earth Finale

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Biography

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 1980s, 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 Sidewalk...

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