Billy Gibbons

Brian May and Billy F. Gibbons Join Steve Cropper on ‘Friendlytown” Album

Steve Cropper has recruited Billy F. Gibbons of ZZ Top and Brian May of Queen appear on the new album by Steve Cropper & The Midnight Hour album ‘Friendlytown’.

Tagged as: 60s, Billy Gibbons, blues, Brian May, Friendlytown, Jon Tiven, Queen, rock, Steve Cropper, USA, ZZ Top

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Billy Gibbons Awarded BMI Troubadour Award

by Music-News.com

ZZ Top legend Billy F Gibbons is set to receive BMI’s Troubadour Award.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Billy Gibbons, blues, rock, USA, ZZ Top

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Billy Gibbons Is Off On A “European Vacation”

by Paul Cashmere

Billy Gibbons is heading off to Europe for a month of concerts across June.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Billy Gibbons, blues, Matt Cameron, rock, Texas, USA, ZZ Top

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Billy Joel Show Bumped Because of Ice Hockey Match

by Paul Cashmere

Billy Joel has had to postpone his Madison Square Garden concert on April 22 because of some Ice Hockey match.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Billy Gibbons, Billy Joel, Madison Square Garden, New York, New York Rangers, pop, rock, USA, ZZ Top

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Mike Wartella Chosen As Dion In The Wanderer, The Musical

by Paul Cashmere

Charlie & the Chocolate Factory and Wicked Broadway star Michael Wartella will star as Dion in the upcoming production The Wanderer.

Tagged as: 50s, 60s, Billy Gibbons, Boz Scaggs, Bruce Springsteen, Dion, Jeff Beck, Mark Knopfler, Michael Watella, Paul Simon, Peter Frampton, rock and roll, The Wanderer, theatre, USA

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ZZ Top Bass Player Dusty Hill Dead At 72

by Paul Cashmere

ZZ Top bass player Dusty Hill has died at age 72. While a cause of death has not been announced, it is understood Dusty died in his sleep at his home in Texas.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, 90s, Billy Gibbons, blues, Dusty Hill, rock, Texas, USA, ZZ Top

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Billy Gibbons Premieres ‘Desert High’ Video

by Paul Cashmere @paulcashmere

ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons released a new solo song today. Check out the ‘Desert High’ video.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Billy Gibbons, blues, rock, USA, ZZ Top

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Billy Gibbons Preps His Third Solo Album ‘Hardware’

by Paul Cashmere @paulcashmere

ZZ Top legend Billy Gibbons has given us a sampler of his third album ‘Hardware’ with a new song ‘West Coast Junkie’.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Billy Gibbons, blues, rock, Texas, USA, ZZ Top

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Peter Green To Be Immortalized In Book, DVD, CD

by Paul Cashmere

On February 25 2020 the friends of Peter Green gathered to honor the legendary Fleetwood Mac guitarist.

Tagged as: 60s, 70s, Billy Gibbons, blues, Christine McVie, David Gilmour, Fleetwood Mac, Jeremy Spencer, John Mayall, Kirk Hammett, Neil Finn, Noel Gallagher, Pete Townshend, Peter Green, rock, Steven Tyler, UK, Zak Starkey

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Billy Gibbons and Dave Grohl to feature on Queens of the Stone Age album

by Music-News.com

ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons has revealed that the band’s frontman Josh Homme recruited himself and Foo Fighters singer Grohl to work on the follow-up to 2017’s ‘Villains’ while at a party.

Tagged as: 90s, Billy Gibbons, blues, grunge, Queens Of The Stone Age, rock, USA, ZZ Top

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ZZ Top Musical ‘Sharp Dressed Man’ is on the way

by Paul Cashmere

A musical based on the music of ZZ Top is currently in development in the USA. Michael Gruber and Jason Gastwirth from Caesars Entertainment along with Carl Stubner and Prem Akkaraju are developing ‘Sharp Dressed Man’ the musical to debut in Las Vegas in 2020.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, Frank Beard, rock, Sharp Dressed Man, USA, ZZ Top

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Ben Harper and Billy Gibbons win Blues Music Awards

by Paul Cashmere

Ben Harper has won his first Blues Music Award while Billy Gibbons is also a winner for his solo album ‘The Big Bad Blues’.

Tagged as: Ben Harper, Billy Gibbons, blues, Blues Music Awards, USA

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Billy Gibbons To Release His Second Solo Album

by Paul Cashmere

ZZ Top co-founder will release his second solo album ‘The Big Bad Blues’ in September.

Tagged as: 00s, 10s, 70s, 80s, 90s, Billy Gibbons, blues, rock, Texas, USA, ZZ Top

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Billy Gibbons Australian Tour Was Falsely Promoted

by Paul Cashmere

ZZ Top legend Billy Gibbons may be the victim of false marketing following a serious of disastrous appearances in Australia.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Billy Gibbons, blues, rock, Texas, USA, ZZ Top

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Was Billy Gibbons Sold A Lemon To Come To Australia?

by Paul Cashmere

Billy Gibbons has cancelled his disastrous Australian tour and dragged his sorry arse back to the USA but maybe this isn’t all his fault. In fact, it isn’t.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Billy Gibbons, blues, rock, Texas, USA, ZZ Top

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Wollongong Venue Distances Itself From Billy Gibbons Australian Show Disaster

by Paul Cashmere

Anita’s Theatre in the Wollongong suburb of Thirroul has distanced itself from the Billy Gibbons debacle after the ZZ Top legend performed just three songs on his first night and four the second night at the venue on the weekend.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Anitas Theatre, Australia, Billy Gibbons, blues, USA, Wollongong, ZZ Top

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Billy Gibbons Has Some Unusual Aussie Dates In January

by Noise11.com

ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons will perform in Australia in January but not quite where you would expect him.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Billy Gibbons, blues, rock, USA, ZZ Top

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Watch Billy Gibbons Busking In Helsinki And No-One Seems To Care

by Paul Cashmere

ZZ Top legend Billy Gibbons treated Helsinki to a free concert in the streets this week and no-one seemed to care.

Tagged as: 70s, 80s, Billy Gibbons, blues, rock, Texas, USA, ZZ Top

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Billy Gibbons To Tour Solo In 2016

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons has released his first solo album, Perfectamundo, and beginning January 20, Gibbons will play a short tour of thirteen dates in the East Coast of the USA.

Tagged as: Billy Gibbons, music news, Perfectamundo, ZZ Top

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Billy Gibbons ‘Got Love If You Want It’ #VIDEO

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons has released a second track from his upcoming solo album ‘Perfectamundo’.

Tagged as: Billy Gibbons, Billy Gibbons 'Got Love If You Want It' #VIDEO, music news, Perfectamundo, ZZ Top

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Billy Gibbons To Release First Solo Album

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

For the first time in his almost fifty year career, Billy Gibbons is about to release a solo album and embark on a tour without Frank Beard and Dusty Hill, his bandmates in ZZ Top.

Tagged as: Billy Gibbons, Billy Gibbons To Release First Solo Album, music news, ZZ Top

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Billy Gibbons’ Moving Sidewalks Plays First Gig Since The 60s

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Before their was ZZ Top, Billy Gibbons played in a psychedelic blues-rock band called the Moving Sidewalks with Don Summers, Dan Mitchell and Tom Moore.

Tagged as: 60s, Billy Gibbons, blues, classic rock, Moving Sidewalks, rock, USA, ZZ Top

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Billy Gibbons To Reform Moving Sidewalks

by Paul Cashmere

Moving Sidewalks will play together again for the first time in 44 years. ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons is getting his first band back together again for one show only.

Tagged as: Billy Gibbons, Moving Sidewalks, ZZ Top

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MGMT, The Kills And More For Fleetwood Mac Tribute Album

by Andrew Tijs

MGMT, The Kills, Marianne Faithful, Best Coast, Lykke Li and more sign on for a Fleetwood Mac cover album.

Tagged as: Antony Hegarty, Best Coast, Billy Gibbons, Fleetwood Mac, Lykke Li, Marianne Faithful, MGMT, The Kills, tribute

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Billy Gibbons Brews His Own Beer

by Paul Cashmere

Billy Gibbons has his own beer. Billy’s Ocho Suerte is a Tex Mex-Vienna style lager with Texas soul.

Tagged as: Billy Gibbons, Ocho Suerte, ZZ Top

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ZZ Top Debut New Song In Beer Ad

by Paul Cashmere

ZZ Top have used the old Candid Camera format to launch their new song ‘I’ve Got To Get Paid’ via a beer commercial for new brew Jeremiah Weed.

Tagged as: Billy Gibbons, Jeremiah Weed, Rick Rubin, ZZ Top

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Billy Gibbons Answers Whatever Happened To The New ZZ Top Album

by Paul Cashmere

ZZ Top fans have long suspected the band’s next album has turned into the next ‘Chinese Democracy’ as they wait year after year for the release of the record so Noise11.com went right to the source and asked frontman Billy Gibbons what the hell is going on.

Tagged as: Billy Gibbons, Rick Rubin, SXSW, ZZ Top

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ZZ Top To Hit The Road With 3 Doors Down

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

ZZ Top will reactive for a 2012 tour with 3 Doors Down.

Tagged as: 3 Doors Down, Billy Gibbons, ZZ Top, ZZ Top To Hit The Road With 3 Doors Down

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Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Announces Presenters

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced the presenters for their induction ceremony on April 14 in Cleveland.

Tagged as: Beastie Boys, Bette Midler, Billy Gibbons, Carole King, Chris Rock, Chuck D, Don Kirshner, Donovan, Dusty Hill, Freddie King, inductees, John Mellencamp, Laura Nyro, presenters, Public Enemy, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Small Faces/Faces, Steven Van Zandt, ZZ Top

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Billy Gibbons Launches BBQ Sauce

by Paul Cashmere

ZZ Top singer and guitarist Billy Gibbons has a new release and it is not that long overdue ZZ Top album. Billy launched his new BFG BBQ sauce today in Austin.

Tagged as: BBQ Sauce, BFG, Billy Gibbons, ZZ Top

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