Billy Gibbons Baby Please Dont Go from Perfectamundo

Direct from Billy: iTunes: Amazon: Facebook: The debut solo album from Billy Gibbons, ZZ Top guitarist, vocalist and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, who is backed by a handpicked group of musicians dubbed The BFGs on this unique outing. As the title may suggest, the album takes on a bit of an AfroCuban flavor that may come as a surprise to some Gibbons fans and followers. Even before the bluesrock, hardrock greats first recordings back in 1967 with the Moving Sidewalks, his legendary preZZ Top Houston psychepunk garage band, Gibbons studied Latin percussion in Manhattan with none other than its preeminent virtuoso, Mambo King Tito Puente, a friend of Billys bandleader dad. Puente taught the young Gibbons the essential Latin rhythms via conga, bongo, maracas and, most importantly, timbales. Banging away on em came back li