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The 20 best guitar albums of 2021
Records that stoked creative fires and set the guitar world alight this year, as voted for by you
Watch Billy Gibbons, Joe Bonamassa cover Jimi Hendrix at Gibbons' 72nd birthday jam in Los Angeles
Gilby Clarke was also on hand for the concert, which took place at the Troubadour
Billy Gibbons gives Jingle Bells a blues makeover in his cover of the Christmas classic
Jingle Bell Blues sees the bearded ZZ Top legend serve up some fiery fretboard antics in the hopes of earning a place on wreath-bedecked jukeboxes worldwide
Billy F. Gibbons: “We let off steam by letting it rock... Hardware is a raging rocker but always mindful of the desert’s implicit mystery”
Why the ZZ Top legend headed to the California High Desert to seek rock ’n’ roll inspiration
Billy Gibbons: “I was fearless when I started playing, but learning that agonizing F chord was miserable!”
With new solo album Hardware in record stores, the ZZ Top icon sits down with TG to share some hard-earned wisdom
Dusty Hill recorded bass and vocal parts for a new ZZ Top album, Billy Gibbons reveals
The late bass guitar great will feature on the yet-to-be-announced record, though his parts are still in need of some "completion work"
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Watch footage of ZZ Top's first shows since bassist Dusty Hill's death
The band recruited longtime guitar tech Elwood Francis to handle bass duties – with Hill's full blessing, according to frontman Billy Gibbons
Is Billy Gibbons’s new Wild Custom guitar the craziest signature model of the year so far?
The ZZ Top icon's unique new six-string sports the brand's marvelously ingenious Gyrock system, which features a rotating pickup loading bay for seamless sonic swaps
Watch Eric Gales deliver jaw-dropping Jimi Hendrix, Billy Gibbons and Robin Trower covers as he puts his signature MXR Raw Dawg pedal through its paces
The blues master makes the riffs of Purple Haze, Just Got Paid, Bridge of Sighs and Red House his own in a playthrough that demonstrates his elite tone and virtuosic feel
