La Futura [Digipak]

Performer: ZZ Top
Engineer: G.L."G-Mane" Moon; Joe Hardy; Jason Lader; Eric Lynn...
Producer: Rick Rubin; Billy Gibbons...
Distributor: Universal Music Distribut

Notes: Personnel: Billy Gibbons (vocals, guitar); Dusty Hill (vocals); James Harman (harmonica); D. Sardy, Joe Hardy (piano, Hammond b-3 organ); Frank Beard (drums). Audio Mixer: D. Sardy. Recording information: Foam Box Recordings, Houston, TX; Sangri La Studios, Malibu, CA. Photographers: Ross Halfin; Pedro Chapouris. La Futura, ZZ Top's 15th studio album and the group's first since 2003's Mescalero, was recorded at Foam Box Recordings in Houston and at Shangri La Studios in Malibu, and produced by Rick Rubin and the band's guitarist, Billy Gibbons. The album was recorded at a leisurely pace between tours over a four-year period, resulting in ten new tracks from the best little three-chord boogie band to ever come out of Texas.

Rolling Stone (p.64) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[The results] prove these guys are still bad, speeding along and with warmth, humor, mystery and funk." Q (Magazine) (p.112) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "With their grease-splattered riffs and salty wordplay 'Have A Little Mercy' and 'Chartreuse' rewind to the days before 1983's ELIMINATOR." Mojo (Publisher) (p.88) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The sound of a band re-energised, LA FUTURA is possibly the hard rock album of the year."

Blues-rock has rarely gotten more down and dirty than with Texas's famous long-bearded trio ZZ Top. Billy Gibbons, Frank Beard, and Dusty Hill are responsible for some of the greatest party anthems of all time. They produced a number of 1970s rock classics, and in the '80s they managed to adapt successfully to changing times, scoring hits with a souped-up, synth-flavored sound. Eventually, though, they got back to their gritty, bluesy roots, and in 2004 ZZ top's contribution to rock & roll was officially recognized via their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

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