If you see ZZ Top in action in 2025, you’ll witness bassist and former guitar tech Elwood Francis playing an absurd 17-string bass. The late Dusty Hill’s replacement brings out the yellow instrument ...

Despite the death of longtime bass player Dusty Hill, ZZ Top is still touring and plans to stop in Brown County next year. Hill, who played with ZZ Top for more than 50 years, died in 2021. He was ...

When you spot a guitarist masked by shades, chest-length whiskers and hipster attire laying down lines of blues and boogie with touches of border radio panache and electronic mischief, you know who ...

It’s kind of hard to believe, but that little ol’ band from Texas, ZZ Top, has been delivering their infectiously rowdy brand of blues, rock and boogie to legions of fans since man first walked on the ...

After the original ZZ Top rock band formed in Houston, Texas in 1969, it garnered more than half a century of concerts, tours ...

“Are we havin’ a good time tonight?” asked ZZ Top frontman Billy Gibbons rhetorically on stage last week in Gary, Indiana as the group’s “Elevation” tour reached the new Hard Rock Live casino. “We ...

MOORHEAD — On recordings, ZZ Top has always been more about substance than style. The Texas trio has cranked out catchy blues boogies since it started in 1970 without ever really chasing fads or ...

Change is inevitable, yet the ethos behind ZZ Top’s unimpeachable career hasn’t budged in 55 years. The Houston trio, whose blues-based guitar rock unexpectedly took MTV by storm in the ‘80s with ...

With a third leg of their Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour, Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top are holding to the adage of not trying to fix something that’s not broken. But they’ve found a way to make it better.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- For more than 55 years we’ve known Billy F. Gibbons through his lil’ ol’ band from Texas, fronting ZZ Top from the peaks of “Tush” (which turns 50 this year) and “Eliminator” and ...