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January 2019

Harrison Marsh concludes his series on slide guitar with a look at the bottleneck style of ZZ Top’s one and only Billy F Gibbons.

- Harrison Marsh

Billy Gibbons

One of the world’s most iconic guitar players, Billy F Gibbons formed ZZ Top with band mates Dusty Hill and Frank Beard in 1969. Born into a musical family in Texas, Gibbons picked up the guitar at age 11. While ZZ Top released their debut album in 1971, Gibbons had already supported Hendrix with his short-lived outfit Moving Sidewalks. The first two ZZ Top albums were well received but it was third release Tres Hombres, featuring La Grange which saw them hit the top 10 in America for the first time and sparked extensive touring. What followed was a career that featured 15 studio albums (sa far!), four of which

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