ZZ Top to get the Rick Rubin treatment
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Beardy band sign for beary uber-producer’s label, set to make beardy music together These days, ZZ Top are better known for their beards than for the integrity of their music. But the American rock trio look set to reinvent themselves after agreeing a deal with Rick Rubin’s American Recordings label.
Rubin whose low-schmaltz approach helped to relaunch the careers of both Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond, also looks set to produce the next ZZ Top album as part of any arrangement.
The band’s manager, Carl Stubner, said the forthcoming album would recall the one-chord blues of ZZ Top’s 1973 hit La Grange, rather than the glossy hard-rock the band is now known for.
[read more @ Guardian]
