ZZ TOP "In Full Production" For New Album Due Later This Year
March 29, 2011, 13 years ago
According to Gary Graff from Billboard.com, ZZ TOP is "in full production" on a new album, its long-awaited follow-up to 2003's Mescalero, which guitarist Billy F. Gibbons predicts will be out "by the end of the year."
As for the sound, Gibbons notes that he, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard are "still just making a lot of loud noise. We still pose as interpreters of the blues. We can't invent it; It's already been invented. But we can do it our way."
The album is being produced by Rick Rubin (METALLICA, SLAYER, THE BLACK CROWES).
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ZZ Top team up with LYNYRD SKYNYRD for US dates in May. The itinerary includes:
May
12 - Wichita, KS - Intrust Bank Arena13 - Belton, TX - Bell County Expo Center
14 - Oklahoma City, OK - Zoo Amphitheatre
19 - Bangor, ME - Bangor Waterfront Pavilion
20 - Big Flats, NY - Tags Summer Stage
21 - Albany, NY - Times Union Center
22 - Youngstown, OH - Covelli Centre
26 - Peoria, IL - Peoria Civic Center Theatre
27 - Lampe, MO - Black Oak Mountain Amphitheatre
28 - Bossier City, LA - Centurytel Arena
29 - Orange Beach, AL - Amphitheater at the Wharf
