ZZ Top joins forces With Rick Ruben
Posted by Dan Haggerty on 07.02.2008
New label and producer set to return the band to their classic era...
ZZ TOP has signed a new record deal with Rick Rubin's American Recordings imprint through Columbia, Billboard can reveal. The veteran rock trio is planning to hit the studio with Rubin producing, for an album more in keeping with La Grange-era ZZ Top than its pop-friendly '80s sound, according to manager Carl Stubner.
The band recorded for Warner Bros. for the first 20 years of its career before shifting to RCA in the mid-1990s. ZZ Top's last album, 2003's Mescalero, has sold 103,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
