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“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’” By Richard Bienstock published 5 April 23 How ZZ Top’s 1983 classic took the blues “up a notch”