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Texans Say Goodbye to Dusty Hill 

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Catherine Wendlandt
Author: Catherine Wendlandt
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Legendary rock group ZZ Top has lost its bassist: Dusty Hill, who’d played with the band since 1969, died in his sleep at Houston home Wednesday, per an Instagram post from the band. He was 72. 

Born Joseph Michael Hill in Dallas, Dusty Hill moved to Houston more than 50 years ago to join the group that’s become giants in music, not just for its music but also for Hill’s and frontman Billy Gibbons’s outrageously long beards. Known for hits like “La Grange,” “​​Gimme All Your Lovin,” and “Sharp Dressed Man,” ZZ Top has been a mainstay in the American rock scene for more than half a century, getting inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in 2004. The group had been working on its 16th album, which is supposedly getting released later this year. 

The cause of Hill’s death is unknown, but in Illinois last weekend ZZ Top played its first show ever without him after a “hip issue” forced him to return to Houston early, per a post on the ZZ Top Facebook page. The group’s longtime guitar tech, Elwood Francis, took the stage in his place. 

“We, along with legions of ZZ Top fans around the world, will miss your steadfast presence, your good nature and enduring commitment to providing that monumental bottom to the ‘Top’,” his bandmates Frank Beard and Billy Gibbons wrote. “We will forever be connected to that ‘Blues Shuffle in C.’” 

Since the news broke Wednesday, Texans have been expressing their grief on social media:




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Catherine Wendlandt
Catherine Wendlandt
A native Austinite, Catherine Wendlandt spent almost six years in the Midwest for college and graduate school at the University of Missouri (MIZ). While there, she talked about Texas and missed queso so much she had to come back.  In school, she worked as a city government reporter and page designer for the Columbia Missourian, a communications intern at a local jazz company, a food editor and later the managing editor at Vox Magazine, and a research assistant for the Association of Health Care Journalists. She's worked in Missouri, Dallas, and Barcelona, Spain, and interned for Houstonia in 2018, when she fell in love with everything about the city, except maybe the traffic and mosquitos.  When she's not at work, you can find Catherine curled up reading a good book, out exploring local parks, taking lots of sunset pictures, and trying to pet every dog she sees (in spite of the allergies).