ZZ Top: Welcome To Weirdsville…
Charles Shaar Murray, Q, November 1990
ROBERT CRAY'S favourite ZZ Top story: the last time the Robert Cray Band played San Antonio, Billy Gibbons called up and requested tickets. Come show-time, the bearded wonder had not yet appeared, and backstage afterwards there was still no sign of him.
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