Mixed Bag

BILLY F. GIBBONS Hardware [Concord]] It was rather late in the day for ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons to start a solo career as he did in 2015 with the Latin-tinged Perfectamundo and The Big Bad Blues. Album #3 was recorded in the Californian desert with former Guns N’ Roses/Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum, one-time Slick Lilly leader Austin Hanks and, on the whip-smart Stackin’ Bones, Larkin Poe. Hardware is a riff-strewn feast of scuzz. Gibbons is back to songwriting too, having a hand in everything bar Augie Meyers’s Hey Baby, Que Paso, which he transforms into a cousin of Dire Straits’s Walk Of Life. The desert looms large, and not just in some of the Queens Of The Stone Age-style guitar, or Desert High, where you can almost feel the sand in…

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Australian HiFi (Digital) - 1 Issue, July - August 2021

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