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Hardware

Billy F Gibbons

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The old Texan proverb that "you find the best frozen margaritas in the oldest glasses" certainly applies to this third solo album by Billy Gibbons. Having swerved between genres with The Big Bad Blues (2018) and Perfectamundo (2015), the brains behind ZZ Top has gone back to basics with Hardware, which sounds like a personal jukebox of his own creation. It’s a gleaming machine that contains everything that inspired his music since the bearded trio's beginnings in 1971: blues, hard rock, country rock and even surf music. This is all original material, with the exception of a cover of the Texas Tornados' Hey Baby, Que Paso. These songs have been written with the help of old accomplices like the former Guns'N'Roses drummer Matt Sorum, guitarist Austin Hanks, Mike Fiorentino, Chad Shlosser and, on Stackin' Bones, the young sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell from the duo Larkin Poe.

From the first riffs of My Lucky Card, we are treated to a full-strength Gibbons performance, with typically dirty Texan blues rock, implacable as the desert sun that beats down on Palm Springs where Hardware was recorded. The flawless Telecaster solo on Vagabond Man underscores the power of this sound: it has been heard a thousand times before, but Billy Gibbons gives it a uniquely human touch. And whether you prefer the boogie anthem La Grange (1973) or the radio hit Gimme All Your Lovin' (1983), on this record the ZZ Top frontman is really pandering to all the fans, past and present, of his timeless rock'n'roll. This album is classic, solid, and unmistakable. © Marc Zisman/Qobuz

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1
My Lucky Card
00:02:33

Billy F Gibbons, Producer, Recording Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Bellman, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Scheps, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Matt Sorum, Producer, Recording Producer, ComposerLyricist - Carl Stubner, Producer, Executive Producer - Mike Fiorentino, Producer, Recording Producer, ComposerLyricist - Will Borza, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Blain Clausen, Producer, Executive Producer - CHAD SHLOSSER, Producer, Additional Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist

℗ 2021 Concord Records

2
She’s On Fire
00:02:46

Billy F Gibbons, Producer, Recording Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Bellman, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Scheps, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Matt Sorum, Producer, Recording Producer, ComposerLyricist - Carl Stubner, Producer, Executive Producer - Mike Fiorentino, Producer, Recording Producer, ComposerLyricist - Will Borza, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Blain Clausen, Producer, Executive Producer - CHAD SHLOSSER, Producer, Additional Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist

℗ 2021 Concord Records

3
More-More-More
00:03:02

Billy F Gibbons, Producer, Recording Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Bellman, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Scheps, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Matt Sorum, Producer, Recording Producer, ComposerLyricist - Carl Stubner, Producer, Executive Producer - Mike Fiorentino, Producer, Recording Producer, ComposerLyricist - Will Borza, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Blain Clausen, Producer, Executive Producer - CHAD SHLOSSER, Producer, Additional Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist

℗ 2021 Concord Records

4
Shuffle, Step & Slide
00:03:10

Billy F Gibbons, Producer, Recording Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Bellman, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Scheps, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Matt Sorum, Producer, Recording Producer, ComposerLyricist - Carl Stubner, Producer, Executive Producer - Mike Fiorentino, Producer, Recording Producer, ComposerLyricist - Will Borza, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Blain Clausen, Producer, Executive Producer - CHAD SHLOSSER, Producer, Additional Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist

℗ 2021 Concord Records

5
Vagabond Man
00:03:59

Billy F Gibbons, Producer, Recording Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Bellman, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Scheps, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Matt Sorum, Producer, Recording Producer, ComposerLyricist - Carl Stubner, Producer, Executive Producer - Mike Fiorentino, Producer, Recording Producer, ComposerLyricist - Will Borza, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Blain Clausen, Producer, Executive Producer - CHAD SHLOSSER, Producer, Additional Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel

℗ 2021 Concord Records

6
Spanish Fly
00:04:01

Billy F Gibbons, Producer, Recording Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Bellman, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Scheps, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Matt Sorum, Producer, Recording Producer, ComposerLyricist - Carl Stubner, Producer, Executive Producer - Mike Fiorentino, Producer, Recording Producer, ComposerLyricist - Will Borza, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Blain Clausen, Producer, Executive Producer - CHAD SHLOSSER, Producer, Additional Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist

℗ 2021 Concord Records

7
West Coast Junkie
00:02:48

Billy F Gibbons, Producer, Recording Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Bellman, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Scheps, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Matt Sorum, Producer, Recording Producer, ComposerLyricist - Carl Stubner, Producer, Executive Producer - Mike Fiorentino, Producer, Recording Producer, ComposerLyricist - Will Borza, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Blain Clausen, Producer, Executive Producer - CHAD SHLOSSER, Producer, Additional Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist

℗ 2021 Concord Records

8
Stackin’ Bones
00:03:16

Billy F Gibbons, Producer, Recording Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Bellman, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Scheps, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Matt Sorum, Producer, Recording Producer, ComposerLyricist - Carl Stubner, Producer, Executive Producer - Larkin Poe, FeaturedArtist - Mike Fiorentino, Producer, Recording Producer, ComposerLyricist - Will Borza, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Blain Clausen, Producer, Executive Producer - CHAD SHLOSSER, Producer, Additional Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist

℗ 2021 Concord Records

9
I Was A Highway
00:02:34

Billy F Gibbons, Producer, Recording Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Bellman, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Scheps, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Neil Mason, ComposerLyricist - Matt Sorum, Producer, Recording Producer, ComposerLyricist - Carl Stubner, Producer, Executive Producer - Mike Fiorentino, Producer, Recording Producer, ComposerLyricist - Tim Montana, ComposerLyricist - Will Borza, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Josh Dunne, ComposerLyricist - Blain Clausen, Producer, Executive Producer - CHAD SHLOSSER, Producer, Additional Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist

℗ 2021 Concord Records

10
S-G-L-M-B-B-R
00:02:25

Billy F Gibbons, Producer, Recording Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Bellman, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Scheps, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Matt Sorum, Producer, Recording Producer - Carl Stubner, Producer, Executive Producer - Mike Fiorentino, Producer, Recording Producer, ComposerLyricist - Will Borza, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Blain Clausen, Producer, Executive Producer - CHAD SHLOSSER, Producer, Additional Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel

℗ 2021 Concord Records

11
Hey Baby, Que Paso
00:02:53

Billy F Gibbons, Producer, Recording Producer, MainArtist - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Bellman, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Scheps, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Matt Sorum, Producer, Recording Producer - Carl Stubner, Producer, Executive Producer - Augie Meyers, ComposerLyricist - Bill Sheffield, ComposerLyricist - Mike Fiorentino, Producer, Recording Producer - Will Borza, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Blain Clausen, Producer, Executive Producer - CHAD SHLOSSER, Producer, Additional Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel

℗ 2021 Concord Records

12
Desert High
00:03:27

Billy F Gibbons, Producer, Recording Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Howie Weinberg, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chris Bellman, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Scheps, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Matt Sorum, Producer, Recording Producer, ComposerLyricist - Carl Stubner, Producer, Executive Producer - Mike Fiorentino, Producer, Recording Producer, ComposerLyricist - Will Borza, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Blain Clausen, Producer, Executive Producer - CHAD SHLOSSER, Producer, Additional Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist

℗ 2021 Concord Records

Album review

The old Texan proverb that "you find the best frozen margaritas in the oldest glasses" certainly applies to this third solo album by Billy Gibbons. Having swerved between genres with The Big Bad Blues (2018) and Perfectamundo (2015), the brains behind ZZ Top has gone back to basics with Hardware, which sounds like a personal jukebox of his own creation. It’s a gleaming machine that contains everything that inspired his music since the bearded trio's beginnings in 1971: blues, hard rock, country rock and even surf music. This is all original material, with the exception of a cover of the Texas Tornados' Hey Baby, Que Paso. These songs have been written with the help of old accomplices like the former Guns'N'Roses drummer Matt Sorum, guitarist Austin Hanks, Mike Fiorentino, Chad Shlosser and, on Stackin' Bones, the young sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell from the duo Larkin Poe.

From the first riffs of My Lucky Card, we are treated to a full-strength Gibbons performance, with typically dirty Texan blues rock, implacable as the desert sun that beats down on Palm Springs where Hardware was recorded. The flawless Telecaster solo on Vagabond Man underscores the power of this sound: it has been heard a thousand times before, but Billy Gibbons gives it a uniquely human touch. And whether you prefer the boogie anthem La Grange (1973) or the radio hit Gimme All Your Lovin' (1983), on this record the ZZ Top frontman is really pandering to all the fans, past and present, of his timeless rock'n'roll. This album is classic, solid, and unmistakable. © Marc Zisman/Qobuz

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