Current Artists Pay Tribute To ZZ Top

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Contest details below This new album features 11 classic ZZ Top songs interpreted by artists working in a broad range of musical genres.  All of the album’s tracks have been […]

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This new album features 11 classic ZZ Top songs interpreted by artists working in a broad range of musical genres.  All of the album’s tracks have been newly recorded, specifically for the project. Here’s more info from the press release:

The album kicks off with “Sharp Dressed Man,” from The M.O.B., Mick Fleetwood’s ad hoc group that includes fellow Fleetwood Mac founder John McVie as well as Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and guitar great Jonny Lang.  Fleetwood commented, “We’re delighted to honor ZZ Top this way.  Their legacy, like that of the original Fleetwood Mac, is steeped in the blues we all love so much.  I know that Steven and Jonny feel as strongly about their legacy as John and I do.”

After Billy F Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard, the original–and continuing– members of ZZ Top were informed that A Tribute From Friends was in the offing, they issued the following statement:

“When we were told there was going to be a ZZ Top tribute album a while ago and logically asked, ‘Who are we paying tribute to?’  Then we found out that a bunch of great artists were paying tribute to us and we were in disbelief.  For the past forty or so years, all we’ve done is get out there and crank it and try to have a good time while doing so. To a great extent, we’ve succeeded since we’re still having a good time so that would be reward enough for ‘the same three guys playing the same three chords.’ Now comes A Tribute From Friends and we’re so delighted that our music resonates with these great musicians whom we so admire.”

A Tribute From Friends also includes “Waitin’ for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago” by Daughtry, “Got Me Under Pressure” from Duff McKagan’s LOADED and Mastodon’s version of “Just Got Paid.” Coheed & Cambria contributed the anthemic “Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers” while country superstar Jamey Johnson’s track is the seminal “La Grange.”  Of their invitation to be a part of the album, lead singer Chris Daughtry said, “We were completely honored! A classic great band with amazing songs? We’re in!” And of ZZ Top’s music, “It’s classic! Simple chord progressions, great riffs with hooky choruses…very inspiring to a band like us.”

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Track listing:

• “Sharp Dressed Man” – The M.O.B. (Mick Fleetwood, Steven Tyler, Jonny Lang & John McVie)

• “Gimme All Your Lovin’” – Filter

• “Tush” – Grace Potter & The Nocturnals

• “Legs” – Nickelback

• “Cheap Sunglasses” – Wolfmother

• “Got Me Under Pressure” – Duff McKagan’s LOADED

• “Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers” – Coheed & Cambria

• “Just Got Paid” – Mastodon

• “Rough Boy” – Wyclef Jean

• “Waitin’ for the Bus / Jesus Just Left Chicago” – Daughtry

• “La Grange” – Jamey Johnson

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Contest is over. Winners will be announced soon!

Contest info – read this! You can win the ZZ TOp tribute CD. Enter now and be sure to tell us your favorite ZZ Top song. This next part is important: Put your answer in the “Message” field of the online entry form! If you don’t do that, you won’t win. Click on this sentence to enter the contest! Contest ends on October 24, 2011.

 

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