Billy Gibbons Previews New Solo Album With Surf-Rock Song ‘West Coast Junkie’
“I’m a West Coast junkie from a Texas town,” Billy Gibbons growls in his new song “West Coast Junkie.” The surf-rock jam announces the new solo album from the ZZ Top guitarist: Hardware, his third solo project, arrives June 4th.
Along with the song, Gibbons released a video for “West Coast Junkie” that finds him and his trio — including former Guns N’ Roses drummer Matt Sorum — on a surreal desert trip in search of Sixties go-go dancers. In fact, Gibbons recorded Hardware in a desert studio, setting up shop in Palm Springs, California.
“We holed up in the desert for a few weeks in the heat of the summer and that in itself was pretty intense,” Gibbons says in a release. “To let off steam we just ‘let it rock,’ and that’s what Hardware is really all about. For the most part, it’s a raging rocker but always mindful of the desert’s implicit mystery.”
Hardware is the follow-up to Gibbons’ 2018 solo LP The Big Bad Blues. Hardware‘s title is an homage to Joe Hardy, the longtime ZZ Top collaborator who died in 2019.
blogherads.adq.push(function () {
blogherads
.defineSlot( ‘medrec’, ‘gpt-dsk-tab-article-inbody1-uid0’ )
.setTargeting( ‘pos’, [“mid-article”,”mid”,”in-article1″,”mid-article1″] )
.setSubAdUnitPath(“music//article//inbody1”)
.addSize([[300,250],[620,350],[2,2],[3,3],[2,4],[4,2]])
;
});
Last summer, Gibbons joined fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Dion for the song “Bam Bang Boom.” He’s also a frequent collaborator with the country-rock singer Tim Montana. The two released their own brand of hot sauce in 2019.
