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On October 11th, Show Dog-Universal Music will be releasing a ZZ Top tribute album entitled A Tribute For Friends.
The album will feature eleven bands covering the Texas rock band including Coheed and Cambria, Mastodon, Filter, Wyclef Jean and, sigh, Nickleback.
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.”
Since forming in 1969, ZZ Top has sold over 50 million records. They are recipients of the Texas Cultural Trust’s 2011 Texas Medal of the Art and had previously been named “Official Texas Heroes” by the state’s House of Representatives. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones in 2004 who cited the band’s remarkable consistency and longevity and, first and foremost, the fact that ZZ Top is “steeped in the blues,” calling them “the heartbeat of the whole country and the heartbeat of rock ‘n’ roll.”
The track listing for the tribute album is below. Some songs can be heard on their Facebook page.
A TRIBUTE FROM FRIENDS – 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
