{"id":28888,"date":"2024-02-28T12:04:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T12:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/billy-f-gibbons-recruits-famous-friends-for-cover-of-jimmy-reed-classic\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T12:04:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T12:04:56","slug":"billy-f-gibbons-recruits-famous-friends-for-cover-of-jimmy-reed-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/billy-f-gibbons-recruits-famous-friends-for-cover-of-jimmy-reed-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy F Gibbons recruits famous friends for cover of Jimmy Reed classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-27\/Getty_BillyFGibbons_022724.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Scott Dudelson\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>ZZ Top<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Billy F Gibbons<\/strong> has recruited some musician friends for a cover of\u00a0blues legend <strong>Jimmy Reed<\/strong>&#8216;s\u00a0classic track &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eASZ5R-Rbiw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Baby What You Want Me To Do<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The performance teams up Gibbons with the <strong>BFG&#8217;s<\/strong> \u2014\u00a0<strong>Haim<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Danielle Haim <\/strong>on drums,\u00a0guitarist <strong>Matt Sweeny <\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0Tim Montana <\/strong>on maracas \u2014 to help show off Fender\u2019s Vintera\u00a0II Series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The clip features Gibbons on the Vintera II &#8217;70s telecaster in Vintage White, with Sweeney on the Vintera II &#8217;60s telecaster in Fiesta Red.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Fender\u2019s Ventiera II Series is available at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fender.com\/en-US\/start\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>fender.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In other Gibbons news,\u00a0the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer just announced a trio of shows in Hawaii this May. The rocker will headline The Blue Note Hawaii in Honolulu May 17-19, with tickets <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluenotejazz.com\/hawaii\/shows\/?eid=13567383\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>set to go on sale<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> Friday, March 1, at 10 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Gibbons and ZZ Top\u00a0have a busy 2024 ahead of them. They are\u00a0set to play West Palm Beach, Florida, on March 2 and kick off a new leg of the Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour with <strong>Lynyrd Skynyrd<\/strong> starting March 8 in Savannah, Georgia. A complete list of shows can be found at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zztop.com\/tour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>ZZtop.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eASZ5R-Rbiw\" title=\"Billy F Gibbons and the BFG's | Vintera II Series | Fender\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Dudelson\/Getty Images ZZ Top&#8216;s Billy F Gibbons has recruited some musician friends for a cover of\u00a0blues legend Jimmy Reed&#8216;s\u00a0classic track &#8220;Baby What You Want Me To Do.&#8221; The performance teams up Gibbons with the BFG&#8217;s \u2014\u00a0Haim\u2019s Danielle Haim on drums,\u00a0guitarist Matt Sweeny and\u00a0Tim Montana on maracas \u2014 to help<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/billy-f-gibbons-recruits-famous-friends-for-cover-of-jimmy-reed-classic\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}