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Dusty Hill

ZZ Top in 1983
“We Were Still the Little Band From Texas, Interpreters of That Great American Art Form the Blues”: Billy Gibbons on the Making of “Gimme All Your Lovin’” How ZZ Top’s 1983 classic took the blues “up a notch”
Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill, 2012
How to Write a Hard Rock Classic in Five Minutes: Billy Gibbons Tells the Incredible Story of ZZ Top’s “Tush” This 12-bar blues banger was recorded using the Pearly Gates Les Paul and a Marshall Super Lead… But what’s a Cooper Time Cube?!
(from left) ZZ Top's Elwood Francis, Frank Beard, and Billy Gibbons perform live at at the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Watch ZZ Top Perform Their First Show Since Dusty Hill's Death As per – according to Billy Gibbons – Hill's wishes, the trio's longtime tech, Elwood Francis, took up low-end duties for the Tuscaloosa, Alabama performance.
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