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Billy F Gibbons Format: Audio CD

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1	Missin' Yo' Kissin'
2	My Baby She Rocks
3	Second Line
4	Standing Around Crying
5	Let The Left Hand Know...
6	Bring It To Jerome
7	That's What She Said
8	Mo' Slower Blues
9	Hollywood 151
10	Rollin' and Tumblin'
11	Crackin' Up

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Big Bad Blues, as the title suggests, focuses on Gibbons' lifelong love of the blues and rock & roll, showcasing the blues-influenced vocals and guitar licks that have together served as the foundation for his numerous hits over the past five decades. The album features 11 tracks balancing some classic covers like "Rollin' and Tumblin'" and "Standing Around Crying," along with some of Billy's signature new blues originals.

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Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.55 x 4.92 x 0.47 inches; 3.25 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Concord Records
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 0888072057982
Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2018
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ July 20, 2018
Label ‏ : ‎ Concord Records
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07F7VFCLX
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Helen Simons

Big bad blues

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 23, 2023

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I really enjoyed this cd and highly recommend this to x top fans as well as blues fans !

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Jason Stein

A little half and half.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 17, 2018

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Truth is, I don't think I really knew who ZZ Top were until I saw "Sharp Dressed Man", "Gimme All Your Lovin'" and "Legs" on MTV when I was 10/11 in 1983/1984. So there you have it. I did not grow up on the 1970's ZZ Top, I grew up on the sleek, synthesized ZZ Top of the 1980's. Now you may find that horrible, but I find it grand. I am a huge fan of New Wave/Punk/New Romantic music, and if you asked me, ZZ Top reinvented themselves in the 1980's, something most bands only dream of doing. The experimentation of adding drum machines, syncopated drumming and synthesizers to their Texas blues was brilliant, and no other artist has even come close to duplicating that.

Then, in the 1990's, something happened to ZZ Top. I still can't put my finger on it, but none of their 1990's works really hit the spot. In fact, I couldn't believe that, after a five year absence, they came back with "Recycler"--a pastiche of 1985's "Afterburner", in 1990, instead of radically changing their sound. I felt cheated. 1994's "Antenna", 1996's "Rhythmeen" and 1999's "XXX" slowly founding the band sliding into irrelevance. I might be one of the few that liked 2003's "Mescalero"--though uneven, it at least brought some experimentation back into the fold. I was not a big fan of 2012's "La Futura".

So, in 2015, Billy Gibbons went solo for the first time with "Perfectamundo". It had some good songs on it, things he wasn't doing with ZZ Top, and this was refreshing, but the entire album was uneven. Now, with "The Big Bad Blues" Mr. Gibbons is looking to set things right. He has written half an album's worth of originals and covered half an album's worth of blues songs written by others. The overall result is pretty strong, but I guess I like my blues rocking rather than lilting. I found the following songs highlights on the album: "Missin' Yo' Kissin'", "Hollywood 151", "Rollin' and Tumblin'" and "Crackin' Up". For me, these four tracks are standouts in playing, shuffling, humor and melody.

The rest of the album? Hmm. I suppose "May Baby She Rocks", "Second Line", "Let the Left Hand Know", and "Bring It to Jerome" are reasonably good tracks, but "Standing Around Crying", "That's What She Said" and "Mo' Slower Blues" didn't do anything for me.

One thing I really liked about ZZ Top's "Afterburner" (1985) was that it was experimental, sleek, well produced, but most of all, I think the only song I took issue with was "Dipping Low (In the Lap of Luxury)". It was a pretty solid album all the way around. "The Big Bad Blues" is okay. I give it 3.5 stars, just like "Perfectamundo".

And before you quibble about my ratings for 1970's ZZ Top, I remind you that I didn't grow up on that ZZ Top, and besides that, I think they were diamonds in the rough--not yet reaching their actual potential, like they did on "Eliminator" and "Afterburner".

Here's how "The Big Bad Blues" compares to Billy Gibbon's other works:

1971 ZZ Top's First Album: Three Stars
1972 Rio Grande Mud: Three and a Half Stars
1973 Tres Hombres: Five Stars
1975 Fandango!: Three Stars
1976 Tejas: Five Stars
1979 Deguello: Four Stars
1981 El Loco: Three Stars
1983 Eliminator: Five Stars
1985 Afterburner: Five Stars
1990 Recycler: Three and a Half Stars
1994 Antenna: Three Stars
1996 Rhythmeen: Three and a Half Stars
1999 XXX: Three Stars
2003 Mescalero: Three and a Half Stars
2012 La Futura: Three Stars
2015 Perfectamundo [Billy Gibbons solo]: Three and a Half Stars
2018 The Big Bad Blues [Billy Gibbons solo]: Three and a Half Stars

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Love the album good for cruising

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Rob

Good Album

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 23, 2023

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I loves this style of blues. The sound is a little hazy. Like listening in a fog.

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Tina in St. louis

He has a voice that sounds like he gargles with gravel - and I love it.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 16, 2021

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I prefer not to call this music "the blues." I prefer to call it "Biker Bar Music," because that's a much better fit. Every song on here is a keeper. I play it in my car over and over and over and I never get tired of it. Any ZZTop fan would love it, any blues aficionado would love it, and anyone like me - who used to have a low opinion of the blues - would love it. This is the music anyone would love if they hate today's top 40, rap, and techno mixes, and prefer to live in the past, when our generation's music was raw, sweaty, and sexy. It wasn't kid stuff - we smoked, drank, and peaced-out to the anthems of our generation, and our lives were set to music with the most powerful screaming guitars that were better than sex. We made out and made babies to the pace of fast, throbbing, pounding drums, and we solved all our problems by listening to R-rated lyrics delivered by deep, dirty, masculine vocals. This is how we recapture the best part of our youth - we discover that we never lost it - it's still here, in the music .

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Kathi

Little ole band from Texas minus one

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 28, 2022

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Great songs by Billy Gibbons! Can hold his own.

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Ferretnick

Great solo album by the reverend!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 26, 2021

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I bought this sort of on a whim, as I didn't know about it before Amazon recommended it.
I like ZZ Top and have heard Billy Gibbons play on other songs, so I figured I'd take a chance and get it.

It was not a disappointment at all!
It starts out with some growling, "fuzzy" guitars and Billy's gravelly voice and I immediately was brought back to ZZ Top's early days.
I personally enjoyed all the songs, with the possible exception of the last one. (Which is no slight on the music itself, it just seemed a bit 'out-of-place' with all the other songs)

If you enjoy your blues on the more modern, rockin' variety, then this album fits the bill.

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Willie Hines

He's bad, he's nationwide.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 30, 2021

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Billy Gibbons solo ain't all that different from his lil' ol' band from Texas but he does bring elements of tex-mex and r&b into the mix. Guitar tones here, like always, are rude, crude and in the mood. Sexual innuendos still abound and the ensemble playing is tight. Hey, if the reverend Billy G has something to say, I want to hear it. 'Nuff said.

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J. R. Wilde

Blues for a really good day.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 29, 2018

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Billy Gibbons writes, plays and sings great blues (his overuse of feedback notwithstanding) and this is a joyous example of the man's art. There's very little more that I can add, I readily accept that BG is a very much a love him or hate him member of the genre - I fall into the former catagory (though I really, really do wish there were a little less volume induced feedback). From early ZZT through to the current day I find an endearing depth of nuance to his style (his sense of whimsy, whilst apparent to me is, I know, lost on others), he doesn't overembelish nor underplay a song, it's from the gut. This album is fun, it's immensly listenable and is for bright days and smoke filled nights - this is blues in all its joyful glory and it's now in my regular playlist.

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Jimi Man

Doesn't he know he's dead yet?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 21, 2018

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This album is musically derivative. Derivative of whom? Billy Gibbons. I've heard it all before.

He's clearly run out of ideas and is just adding to his pension fund. I am rapidly losing respect for the man.

Go back to 70s ZZ, Eliminator, or 90s ZZ to hear his best.

UPDATE 26 MARCH 2021:

Decided to update after listening to this again after a few years, and I see this vanity project in an even worse light than previously. It's throwaway formulaic tripe with session musos, trite lyrics and a sad old man trying to cling to his glory days still writing songs about girls less than a third of his age when he probably can't even get a boner any more. All the tracks are too short and sound like fillers which would probably be rejected from any self-respecting ZZ album, and all the riffs sound familiar, regurgitated and tired.

I didn't mean this to be so cruel, but somebody should point out the truth. Still, God bless the bloke for all the pleasure he's imparted in his day.

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Joe Crow

...haters’ gonna hate...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 25, 2021

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…strange that BFG’s second solo album appears to spark a bit of a Marmite reaction in the reviews below, but I suppose haters’ gonna hate…

…I first heard ZZ Top playing Cheap Sunglasses (from Deguello) on the OGWT around forty years ago: my elder brother bought the album, and we quickly adopted the phrase “we’re bad...we’re nationwide” as our own. Getting hold of ZZT’s back catalogue wasn’t easy in those vinyl-only record-store days, until Eliminator arrived in (El Loco not having made much of a splash in between). Eliminator dovetailed neatly with the birth of MTV; caught the mood; and relaunched ZZT with an exciting new formula and image that – frankly – almost spoiled things by creating a rut they struggled to get out of…

…but, the success of Eliminator prompted the re-release of their earlier albums, which we consumed voraciously: five bluesy adventures, including a Tex/Mex recipe that showed what three guys could do without synths or overdubs, or razors for that matter…

…so, winding forward to now(ish), and we mourn the lack of new ZZT releases since La Futura nearly a decade ago (which I read somewhere was pretty much developed as a solo album, and released under the ZZT brand). The upside of that hiatus is that BFG has gone back to basics, sort of: Perfectamundo crossed another border – from the US to Cuba this time – and is well worth a listen. Big Bad Blues is also a fine album, a bit more like the early blues-fuelled material, but with a heavy side too…

…others have called it repetitive/derivative, which I think is a bit harsh: it is what it is, and it shows that BFG still has what it takes. If this had been presented as a ZZT album I would have greeted it and enjoyed it just the same – and I look forward to their next release, whenever that comes…

J. M. Green

Commendable!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 14, 2021

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"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" so the addage goes......and bearing in mind the simple fact that Senor Gibbons is first and foremost a blues guitarist and that ZZ Top started life over half a century ago as a li'l ol' (blues) band from Texas, why would you expect the man to release anything other than his favoured genre?
Indeed, maybe too many people have only listened to ZZ Top from Eliminator when they hit upon their winning formula of short simple rocking songs and have not ventured into the back catalogue wherein their true roots lay - but this is very much their loss as it would give them a better understanding of the band.
That all said, Perfectomundo was a departure to the "norm" of Mr Gibbons musical styles (and I enjoyed that thoroughly) so it is with great pleasure that we now get an album from the man going right the way back to the beginning (and by so doing, bringing everything full circle)
So, not a lengthy album by any stretch of the imagination, but for once I ain't complaining as this has been a "go to album" for any road trip for it's energy as much as it's Joie De Vivre (if we can say that in these post Brexit times!) From the off, it comes sprinting out of the speakers with Missin' Yo' Kissin, followed in rapid succession by My Baby She Rocks, replete with the man's harmonica (that we rarely get to hear with latter day ZZ recordings) and of course, his down and dirty guitar phrasing and passages....and all bound together with that incredible vocal that sounds like he's been gargling with grit for all of his life)
Old standards like Standing Around Crying and Rollin' & Tumblin' get a fresh airing here and while Mr Gibbons doesn't add much more to these tunes, he makes them very much all his own with his low down and dirty sound
Certainly plenty here for the afficianado of the genre or anyone who wants to hear the blues played by a life long blues guitarist who plays slow and with feeling....nothing shredded here (thank gawd!) Proving that a handful of notes can say as much as a thousand :)
Yep, this is a good all round album that can be enjoyed as background, or else as one of those albums that, in the privacy of your own car, can be sung along to at the top of your lungs...never a dull moment, thank you Mr Gibbons!

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Gavguitarzz

An excellent mix of original compositions and covers.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 27, 2018

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An excellent mix of original compositions (by Billy Gibbons) and covers (originally by artists such as Muddy Waters and Bo Diddly).
Right from the start with Missin’ Yo’ Kissin’ and throughout the album there are many familiar sounds for the ZZ Top fan to enjoy plus there is the extended musical expression of Billy’s Blues roots - which is of course what this album is all about.
The great surprise on this album is the last track ‘Crackin’ Up’ (Bo Diddly) with its Carribean/Ska feel - a great end to the album which just makes you want to play the whole album through again.

Overall a great addition to any ZZ Top/Billy Gibbons record collection.

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