ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons Wants to Record with Keith Richards
Anne Erickson
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08.12.2011
Listen up, Keith Richards: ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons wants to do business.
The legendary guitarist for the Li’l Ol’ Band from Texas has recently revealed that although he’s collaborated with everyone from Queens of the Stone Age to Ronnie Dunn, he has yet to wrangle Rolling Stones six-stringer Richards to knock out a track. When asked if there was anyone left on his dream list of partnerships, Gibbons told Audio Ink Radio, “Absolutely. Keith [Richards], are you busy?”
He went on to rattle off a rich list of his all-time favorite players. “Jimmy Reed, Jimmie Vaughan, Bo Diddley, all the Kings, Clapton, Keith Richards, Jeff Beck, Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix. Yeah, he’s in there twice, and that’s on purpose,” he said.
Gibbons recently collaborated with bluesman Leslie West on a track for West’s upcoming album, Unusual Suspects, and he said working with West was “simply terrific”: “Leslie’s fast. The affair of getting together and trashing it out can’t be beat.”
As for ZZ Top’s secret to longevity in a fickle business, Gibbons said it’s simple: “It’s all about having a good time.”
As previously reported, ZZ Top’s new album is now in the mixing phase and is expected to drop in the fall of 2011.
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