ZZ Top's music is always instantly recognizable, eminently powerful, profoundly soulful, and 100 percent
American in derivation. This American blues-rock trio from Texas consists of Billy Gibbons (guitar), Dusty Hill
(bass), and Frank Beard (drums). As genuine roots musicians, they have few peers; Gibbons is one of America's
finest blues guitarists working in the arena rock idiom -- both influenced by the originators of the form and
British blues-rock guitarists like Peter Green -- while Hill and Beard provide the ultimate rhythm section support.
They have continued to support the blues through various means, perhaps the most visibly when they were
given a piece of wood from Muddy Waters' shack in Clarksdale, MS. The group members had it made into a
guitar, dubbed the "Muddywood," then sent it out on tour to raise money for the Delta Blues Museum.
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