ZZ Top new album update

Fri, 24 Jun 2011

The new ZZ Top album will be with us by the end of the year, according to guitarist Billy F.Gibbons.

Gibbons was speaking with Houston's Fox 26 about the as yet-unnamed new album: "We're preparing for the release of ZZ Top's next recorded work - soon to hit the streets - hopefully by the end of 2011, this year’s going to be a banner year on a number of levels, but we’re throwing our hat in the ring."

Gibson also confirmed that producer-colossus Rick Rubin is also on board for the album: "We have stepped out and joined forces with a notorious character within the record world... Mr. Rick Rubin", says Billy.

"Rick has successfully brought in his particular piece of magic in offering a few suggestions", he adds, "he basically stepped back and said 'you really don't have to get much better; just do what you do'. He realizes the foundational piece of this great American art form of the blues penetrates so much of popular music, he said 'just turn it up and let's go'".

Starting this week, ZZ Top are playing a month of shows in Europe before returning to the States for a full slate of gigs.

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