ZZ Top's emotional return to Houston, honoring the wish of the late Dusty Hill

Houston's ZZ Top enjoyed 50-plus years without turnover. After the death of Dusty Hill, the band charts a new path.
Los Angeles Times

ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard steps away from the band to deal with a ‘health procedure’

ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard is stepping away from the band’s Elevation tour to undergo a procedure related to his health. Beard “has temporarily stepped away from the current tour to attend to a health ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Billy Gibbons, ZZ Top star, leads own trio to Blue Note in Napa

His long red beard and rapid-fire guitar style make Billy F. Gibbons instantly recognizable. In 1969, he founded the rock and blues trio ZZ Top, and with bassist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard, ...
WKOW

ZZ Top: Bearded bassist Dusty Hill dies in his sleep at 72

HOUSTON (AP) — ZZ Top says bassist Dusty Hill, one of the Texas blues trio's bearded figures, has died at his Houston home. He was 72. In a Facebook post Wednesday, guitarist Billy Gibbons and drummer ...