After relocating from Dallas to Houston, Hill joined his past bandmate Frank Beard in ZZ Top, alongside Billy Gibbons. The band signed a record deal in 1970 and released their debut, ZZ Top's ...

Dusty Hill, the bearded, understated bassist who helped make ZZ Top one of the biggest rock acts of the late 1970s and ’80s, anchoring songs including the shuffle boogie “La Grange” and ...

Not only has ZZ Top rolled with the punches and stayed together, it still plays with a fervor generally reserved for younger musicians. ZZ Top is a rock band in all senses of the word, and its ...

In my neighborhood in Dallas, ‘tush’ was a term we used a lot.” By the end of the 1970s, ZZ Top had emerged as one of the world’s most sought-after live acts, with unforgettable moments ...

Dusty Hill, one of the founding members of the legendary 1970s rock group ZZ Top, has died, his bandmates announced on Wednesday. He was 72 years old. Hill, a bassist and vocalist for the band ...

But that was ZZ Top. Until last year. When Joe “Dusty” Hill, the Texas trio’s bassist since 1970, died last July 28 in Houston at the age of 72, it ended one of the longest-tenured run for a ...