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ZZ Top gears up for summer festival trek
ZZ Top hits the road this summer for a round of festival performances that finds the band celebrating the forthcoming re-release of its most popular album.
The famously bearded Texas trio is due April 18 in College Station, TX, for a one-off gig at Texas A&M, but will mount longer campaigns in both June and August, with a total of 14 shows set for those two months. The band's summer run gets into gear June 6 in Enterprise, AL, as part of the three-day BamaJam music festival. All dates are below.
Bassist Dusty Hill told Billboard last year that the group is anxious to sign a new label deal and get a new album under way, but there's no timeline for how long that might take.
ZZ Top's most recent studio album, "Mescalero," was released in 2003. The group followed that in 2004 with the two-disc hits collection "Rancho Texicano: The Very Best of ZZ Top."
On March 25, the group will reissue its biggest-selling album, 1983's "Eliminator," in a special remastered dual CD/DVD edition that includes the band's three Top 10 singles from the set--"Legs," "Gimme All Your Lovin" and "Sharp Dressed Man"--as well as seven bonus tracks. The DVD portion of the set will include five live performances originally broadcast on the popular British music program "The Tube."
Formed in 1969, ZZ Top is one of very few rock-and-roll bands with its original members sill intact after three decades. The trio--Hill, vocalist/guitarist Billy Gibbons and drummer Frank Beard--was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.
