ZZ Top - Antenna / Single Hits (2001)

ZZ Top is an iconic American blues rock band formed in 1969 in Houston, Texas. The line-up of the band remained virtually unchanged from the day it was founded until the death of the bass player in 2021: Billy Gibbons (guitar, vocals), Dusty Hill (bass guitar, vocals), Frank Beard (drums). The group's style can be defined as blues, blues-rock with elements of boogie-woogie, hard rock, country. In the words of Billy Gibbons: “Is ZZ Top a blues band? Well, we're more like interpreters of the blues. The blues is what inspired us, and it was partly started by the guys from England. I think it's fair to say that we were subconsciously influenced by The Animals, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Who, The Kinks, Clapton, Beck...maybe more." Dusty Hill opines, "We're a rock band with a lot of blues influences."
Having begun their career in the early 1970s with blues and blues rock, the band subsequently experimented with sound, and in the mid-1980s came to a combination of blues rock with pop music, which made ZZ Top super popular all over the world. In total, ZZ Top has sold more than 25 million albums in the United States, which allowed the group to enter the 100 most popular artists in the United States. In the world as of 2014, the group has sold more than 50 million of their albums, of which 11 are gold, seven are platinum and three are multi-platinum. The band has been a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 2004.