
Billy F Gibbons has drafted an all-star team of BFGs for a super-groovy cover of Jimmy Reed’s 1959 hit Baby What You Want Me To Do and Fender has shot the performance for posterity – and, okay, to promote its Vintera II series.
For long-time Gibbons / ZZ Top fans (one and the same, surely), this is essential viewing. Jimmy Reed was one of the players to give Gibbons the bug, and that sense of groove that’s keeping this track moving, and Gibbons is having plenty of fun paying tribute to a primary influence. So much fun there’s even some processing on his vocals which gives it that weird inter-dimensional quality.