“An unusual coupling of an album that can both be heard and seen!” Gibbons says. “RAW” lives up to its name, and for ZZ Top fans, it is required viewing and listening. The jams on “RAW” do indeed “slam” with blistering renditions of classics “La Grange” and “Just Got Paid,” plus deeper cuts like “Brown Sugar” from the band’s 1971 debut album. “Going back about four decades, finding us in a similar circumstance, is as close as could be compared.”Īnother fascinating band story: 'Songs hold up': Three Dog Night's Hutton talks Cape Cod show, new album and his unusual past + 4 more concerts to see “The band did indeed work close together to a great extent recording ZZ Top's ‘La Futura’, yet ‘Raw’ became intensely more intimate and fast-moving as the jams began to slam,” Gibbons explains. Recording “RAW” in such fashion was something the band had not done in some time. 11, Mary Chapin Carpenter, who’s got 15 Grammy Award nominations and five wins plus multiple country music awards, will return to Payomet. 7, the “Start Making Sense: Talking Heads Tribute” with a seven- to 10-piece band led by frontman Jon Braun is the entertainment for the “Once in a Lifetime” Cocktail Party fundraiser, but non-partiers are also invited to the show. 6, it’s the Garcia Project, on tour performing full, classic Jerry Garcia Band setlists and celebrating what would have been Garcia’s 80th birthday. ► The week at Payomet Performing Arts Center (29 Old Dewline Road, North Truro) starts out with tribute concerts to beloved bands of the past. Read more about the musicians' journey below, plus here are five more concerts to consider for the weekend: And one of ZZ Top's stops this year is the Cape Cod Melody Tent in Hyannis. The death last year of longtime ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill led many fans to speculate that the band's run was over, but that's not the case.
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