The iconic drummer for ZZ Top, Frank Beard, is taking a break from touring with the band to undergo a ‘health procedure.’ The ...

Joined by drummer Chris Layton (Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble) and bassist/keyboard player Mike Flanigin, Billy Gibbons ...

For Billy Gibbons, ZZ Top’s Tres Hombres was more ... The group had originated in Arkansas in the ’70s under the name Nothin’ Doin’. After they relocated to Houston later in the decade ...

When ZZ Top came out of Houston in the early ‘70s, they played a fuzzy mix of ... After a somewhat stumbling start, the trio (Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard) locked into 1973 ...

ABJ photographer Dave Creaney caught up with ZZ Top legend Billy Gibbons recently as he celebrated the opening of the Antone's club at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Gibbons, 75 ...

On Wednesday April 9, 2025, the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, MS will honor Billy Gibbons with a tribute to ZZ Top and homage to Muddy Waters.

ZZ Top – which was formed in 1969 – was originally comprised of Dan Mitchell on drums, vocalist-guitarist Billy Gibbons,and bassist-vocalist Dusty Hill who died in 2021. But the band only ...