![]() ![]() Medina has compiled a list of restaurants that will be open on Thanksgiving Day. Recommended listening: "Deeper Into Movies" by Yo La Tengo 23, and, of course, someone broke out a selfie stick. The 2015 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival held its closing-night party on Sunday, Nov. Recommended listening: "La Grange" by ZZ Top and Hank Williams Jr. You just have to be willing to get your passport stamped. As Gibbons recently told Ben Crandell on his way to a show this week at Parker Playhouse in Fort Lauderdale, discovering new music can be an act of strange tourism. I can't claim to have become much of a ZZ Top fan since then, though I have learned to appreciate the trio, and not just for Gibbons' and bassist Dusty Hill's Spanish-moss-like beards. Again, this was early 1983, and I was an 11-year-old country boy from Davie who was years away from realizing how repugnant many of Williams' songs are. Even though ZZ Top would a month later release the soon-to-be-inescapable album "Eliminator," which unleashed "Sharp Dressed Man," "Legs" and "Gimme All Your Lovin'" on Generation X, I didn't know anything about the band. ![]() It's a surprising moment in an otherwise predictable performance. Because he's Hank Jr., he opens the track with a tasteless joke about his parents' conjugal bed, but midway through the song, a roiling roadhouse piano solo sets everything right. released the album "Strong Stuff," notable for a cover photograph that appears to show the singer sitting in a cabin with a live cougar, a baldly sexist opening track ("Gonna Go Huntin' Tonight"), a collaboration with the great Waylon Jennings and Ernest Tubb ("Leave Them Boys Alone") and a cover of "La Grange," the thorny ZZ Top hit from the Texas trio's 1973 album, "Tres Hombres." Williams' "La Grange" is, for the most part, faithful to the original, with Bocephus emulating Billy Gibbons' whirling guitar riff and grumbling vocals. ![]() I discovered the music of ZZ Top through an unlikely and embarrassing source: Hank Williams Jr. Recommended listening: "We Are All Accelerated Readers" by Los Campesinos! Barbara Corbellini Duarte and her camera caught some of this literary ecstasy in action. This past weekend, the Miami Book Fair returned to downtown Miami, and as usual, you could feel South Florida getting ever so smarter. No cause of death for Hill has been revealed.To sign up for the Monday Hit List newsletter, click here. Elwood Francis, their trusted guitar tech of the past two decades, into play with his slide guitar, bass guitar and harmonica playing in full swing.” Per Dusty’s request ‘The show must go on!’ With that directive, ZZ Top has put the services of Mr. They await a speedy recovery and have him back pronto. “The members of ZZ Top, Billy, and Frank, would like to share that Dusty, their fearless bass player, is on a short detour back to Texas, to address a hip issue. At the time, they ascribed his being MIA to a “hip” issue. On July 23, five days before announcing Hill’s death, the other two members had addressed his absence, after concertgoers on the first few dates of the tour grew worried about his status. The bassist played their July 18 show at Louisville’s Iroquois Amphitheatre, then canceled a show in Evansville July 21 before resuming on July 23 in the Chicago area without Hill.Īlthough Wednesday night’s show was canceled, the band is currently still slated to resume the tour with a Friday night show in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. ![]() The group had continued the tour after Hill was forced to leave right after it kicked off. “We, along with legions of ZZ Top fans around the world, will miss your steadfast presence, your good nature and enduring commitment to providing that monumental bottom to the ‘Top,’ We will forever be connected to that ‘Blues Shuffle in C.’ You will be missed greatly, amigo.” Gibbons and the other remaining founding member of the trio, drummer Frank Beard, had announced Hill’s death on Wednesday. “We are saddened by the news today that our Compadre, Dusty Hill, has passed away in his sleep at home in Houston, TX,” they said then in a statement. Billy told me okay to share w/fans: As Dusty said upon his departure, “ Let the show go on!”.and…with respect, we’ll do well to get beyond this and honor his wishes. Received this just now via text from regarding passing of Dusty Hill. ![]()
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