Saturday 16 August 2008

ZZ Top And The Black Keys To Work Together

ZZ Top are to team up with The Black Keys and may record new material together.


Apaprently the two acts were introduced by esteemed producer Rick Rubin, who is working on the veteran rocker's following album.


"I'm such a grown fan of those guys ... it makes total sense," ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons told Billboard of the potential difference collaboration, "and that's pretty down and dirty, which is good for ZZ Top."


Gibbons says of his own band's new songs, he demoed 15 tracks over a 15-day-period in May, and describes the music as "everything from a black church gospel ballad to updated versions of 'Rollin' and Tumblin'."




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