ZZ Top gears up for summer festival trek
The famously bearded Texas trio is due April 18 in College Station, TX, for a one-off gig at Texas A&M, but will mount longer campaigns in both June and August, with a total of 14 shows set for those two months. The band's summer run gets into gear June 6 in Enterprise, AL, as part of the three-day BamaJam music festival. All dates are below.
Bassist Dusty Hill told Billboard last year that the group is anxious to sign a new label deal and get a new album under way, but there's no timeline for how long that might take.
ZZ Top's most recent studio album, "Mescalero," was released in 2003. The group followed that in 2004 with the two-disc hits collection "Rancho Texicano: The Very Best of ZZ Top."
On March 25, the group will reissue its biggest-selling album, 1983's "Eliminator," in a special remastered dual CD/DVD edition that includes the band's three Top 10 singles from the set--"Legs," "Gimme All Your Lovin" and "Sharp Dressed Man"--as well as seven bonus tracks. The DVD portion of the set will include five live performances originally broadcast on the popular British music program "The Tube."
Formed in 1969, ZZ Top is one of very few rock-and-roll bands with its original members sill intact after three decades. The trio--Hill, vocalist/guitarist Billy Gibbons and drummer Frank Beard--was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.
April 2008
18 - College Station, TX - Kyle Field at Texas A&M University
May 2008
23 - Orange Beach, AL - Amphitheater at the Wharf
31 - Louisville, KY - Godman Field/Fort Knox
June 2008
6 - Enterprise, AL - BamaJam Festival
7 - Atlanta, GA - Chastain Park Amphitheatre
12 - Chattanooga, TN - Riverbend Festival
13 - Jackson, MS - Jubilee! JAM
14 - Valdosta, GA - Wild Adventures Theme Park
19 - Gilford, NH - Meadowbrook
20 - Wallingford, CT - Chevrolet Theatre
21 - Rutland, TV - Summer Extravaganza
August 2008
7 - Sturgis, SD - Buffalo Chip Campground
9 - Sparta, WI - Constitution Park
10 - Springfield, IL - Illinois State Fair
23 - Aberdeen, MD - Shine Sports Field
24 - Essex Junction, VT - Champion Valley Exposition
30 - Milwaukee, WI - Summerfest
Une rumeur circule qu'ils seraient en concert aux vieillex charrues en juillet. Alors pourquoi pas Montreux ou le Paléo de Nyon.
Le programme pour Montreux sort le 17 avril 2008 et celui de Nyon le 10 avril 2008.
