ZZ Top to perform LIVE on March 26 at John Hunt Auditorium at UGA Tifton Campus Conference Center in Tifton, tickets on sale now
TIFTON, Ga. – Six String Southern Productions is pleased to announce Derrick Dove & The Peacekeepers as support for ZZ Top LIVE at John Hunt Auditorium at UGA Tifton Campus on Wednesday, March 26, 2025.
Tickets on sale now online at Freshtix.com or by phone at 678-701-6114.
DERRICK DOVE & THE PEACEKEEPERS write the latest Blues chapter in the book of Southern Rock history with their new album, Burn It Down. The follow-up to their critically acclaimed Rough Time album, Burn It Down shows the band’s rich history in the Blues and Southern Rock scene. Rough Time hit #1 on the Blues Album charts in the US and Spain, yielded four #1 Blues singles in nine countries, and garnered over 7 million streams. Burn It Down is out now. Burn It Down is the sound of a band not just settling into a whole new set of grooves but finding an entirely new gear on the shifter to take things into overdrive. Across its 10 songs, this album takes you on a journey of life lessons taught through the enduring legacy of Blues Rock and Roll. Every ante has been upped. From song writing to guitar playing to the final mix, Burn It Down is a bold, defining statement by a band with a unique sound whose best days are still to come.
ZZ TOP has been at it for well over a half century, delivering rock, blues and boogie on the road and in the studio to millions of devoted fans. With iconography as distinctive as their sound, ZZ TOP is virtually synonymous with beards, hotrod cars, spinning guitars and that magic keychain, all of which transcend geography and language.
It was in Houston in the waning days of 1969 that ZZ TOP coalesced from the core of two rival bands, Billy Gibbons’ Moving Sidewalks and Frank Beard and Dusty Hill’s American Blues. Their third album, 1973’sTresHombres, catapulted them to national attention with the hit “La Grange,” still one of the band’s signature pieces today. Eliminator, their 1983 album was something of a paradigm shift for ZZ TOP. Their roots blues skew was intact but added to the mix were tech-age trappings that soon found a visual outlet with such tracks as “Sharp Dressed Man” and “Legs” on the nascent MTV. It was one of the music industry’s first albums to have been certified Diamond, far beyond Gold and Platinum and a reflection of US domestic sales exceeding 10million units.
As a touring entity, they’ve been without peer over the past five decades, having performed before millions of fans on four continents and have been the subject of their own Grammy-nominated documentary titled That Little Ol’ Band From Texas. The band’s line-up of the bearded Gibbons and Hill and Beard, who ironically is clean shaven, remained intact for more than 50 years until Dusty’s passing. When Dusty temporarily departedthe tour in the summer of 2021, it was a given that Elwood would be the perfect choice to stand in for Dusty until he could return. But Dusty’s return was not to be, and Elwood continues to handle the bass duties for the band now and into the future.
The elements that keep ZZ TOP fresh, enduring and above the transitory fray can be summed up in the three words of the band’s internal mantra: “Tone, Taste and Tenacity.”. As genuine roots musicians, they have few peers. Their influences are both the originators of the form–Muddy Waters, B.B. King, et al–as well as the British blues rockers and Jimi Hendrix who emerged the generation before ZZ’s ascendance.
They have sold hundreds of millions of records over the course of their career, have been officially designated as Heroes of The State of Texas, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (by Keith Richards, no less) and have been referenced in countless cartoons and sitcoms. They are true rock icons and, against all odds, they’re really just doing what they’ve always done. ZZ TOP abides!
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PROMOTER CONTACT: Erin Conner /Six String Southern Productions/erin@sixstringsouthern.com
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