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...told music. This spirit moved swiftly from the delta to places like Memphis, Tennessee, and Tupelo, Mississippi. Then history changed forever when a young man named Elvis took this raw, untainted music from his heart and shared it with the world. Ask Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, ZZ Top or many others which individuals influenced them, and it becomes all too clear: B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson, Little Milton. Rock 'n' roll's parents were the Mississippi Delta blues. But this music will keep on truckin' and will grow--with or without a museum in Cleveland. JEROME SHEFFIELD...
...ZZ Top has a gloriously gritty new album...
...ZZ Top, the hirsute Texas trio, has always cut a jagged diagonal across the pop landscape. During the egocentric '80s, when Madonna, Duran Duran and Michael Jackson were using MTV to magnify their star appeal, ZZ Top put an ironic distance between itself and the camera, vamping behind Rip Van Winkle beards, trench coats and sunglasses. The group's slyly salacious videos about glossy cars and sassy girls were always delivered with a knowing wink. One clip ends with the band standing on the edge of a dusty desert, striking its trademark truckin' pose before fading like a mirage...
...ZZ Top might have disappeared permanently if not for its canny ability simultaneously to buck and ride the new-wave trend, grafting its brawny, blues-inflected guitar licks onto slick synthesizer grooves and pulsing dance beats. On multiplatinum-selling albums such as 1983's Eliminator and 1985's Afterburner, guitarist Billy Gibbons, bassist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard (the only bandmate without one) perfected a progressive yet reassuringly familiar rock stance and tapped a huge audience that shared their ambivalence. By the end of the decade, however, their sound had become all too accurately described by the title...
...Antenna -- the 14th album for ZZ Top, and its first since signing a $35 million, five-album deal with RCA -- the band has returned to its roadhouse roots and emerged renewed and as bristly as ever. The album kicks off with the high-voltage Pincushion and never lets up. From the syncopated stomp of Fuzzbox Voodoo to the scrawl of searing guitar notes on Cherry Red, the trio, led by Gibbons' supple guitar work, rocks with earnest, no-frills intensity that harks back to ZZ Top's first hit, La Grange...