ZZ Top

Continuing on the hugely successful legacy that the 80 From range has bought, comes the newest release in the series - 80 From America! For the first time 80 From branches out to explore one of the most influential regions in the history of music, the United States Of America.

Los Lobos are often referred to as one of music's best kept secrets. Although garnering significant critical acclaim, decent album sales, and a devoted fan base who turn out in droves for every tour, the band never really reached the superstar status of some of the artists, like Stevie Ray Vaughan and Melissa Etheridge, who have opened for them in the past. This might be due to the fact that the band's music is so damn eclectic and hard to categorize. It draws equally from rock, Tex-Mex, country, R&B, blues, and traditional Mexican folk influences. As I watched this performance I was reminded of Santana, Cream, ZZ-Top, and The Allman Brothers all within the span of about four songs. This DVD commemorates Los Lobos' thirty year anniversary as a band, and twenty years since the release of their first full length album How Will The Wolf Survive.

Listening to the the title track of Have Blues Will Travel that opens the second Alligator set by the no-jive, grit-and-gravy Texas blues duo of Smokin' Joe Kubek and Bnois King, one can't help but recall another Texas outfit that used to rock this hard, playing the roadhouse boogie loud and proud: ZZ Top. Kubek's wicked slide playing and King's wrangling, razored leads trade places; the locked-in rhythm section of bassist John Morris and drummer Adrian Marchie gives them some room to really wail. The comparison is not an idle compliment since ZZ Top haven't sounded like themselves since Deguello. This track alone is almost worth the price of the disc. There are other cuts here that hammer just as hard, too, however: "Out of Body, Out of Mind," "One Step at a Time," and the closer "What a Sight to See" carry the same raw, blistering blues and boogie torch…

Great blues rock trio to the young, just 20 "guitarslinger" Josh pilot from the Cincinnati area. Pilot is a highly gifted guitarist, strongly influenced by among others B.B. to conquer a place King and Walter Trout, which is preparing on the terrain of the Bonamassas & co.. With their excellent debut album, the troupe anyway, ever puts a real exclamation mark. "Price to pay" is best, played with a lot of steam and power blues rock, whose occasional references to classic guitar rock and Boogie 70's retro Rock ' n roll magnificently in the image fit. In addition to the already mentioned influences traces such sizes such as Rory Gallagher, key and free, but also by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Healey and ZZ accordingly top. The guys play wonderfully carefree and casual druaflos……

Skeletons is the tenth studio album by the American heavy metal band Danzig, released in November 2015 and consisting entirely of cover versions of songs from the 1960s through 1980s, selected by singer Glenn Danzig – 10 cover versions of Black Sabbath, Elvis Presley, Aerosmith, ZZ Top, The Troggs, The Everly Brothers and many more…

Thieving from the House of God is the fifth full-length album by Orange Goblin released in 2004. The album features a ZZ Top cover of "Just Got Paid"