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AUDIO: ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons (1990)

Tony Scherman, Rock's Backpages audio, August 1990

The hirsute guitar wonder starts off with memories of recently-deceased fellow Texan Stevie Ray Vaughan, then discusses the new ZZ Top album Recycler... plus the trio's return to a rootsier sound; the technology used on preceding albums Eliminator and Afterburner; the place of the blues in today's music; and getting to play cards with Muddy Waters.

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