The title track from Steve Cropper’s new album Friendlytown sees the R&B legend team up with ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons. And in a new interview with Total Guitar, Steve recalls his surprise in discovering that he and Billy use the same clever little trick in their playing.
“Billy and I have been friends for 30 years,” Steve says, “but we've never actually worked together before. He ran into Jon Tiven, my co-producer, in a grocery store and he asked, ‘What's Steve doing these days?’ Jon told him we working doing an album and he said, ‘Good, can I be on it? I'm not doing anything right now.’ So he was there for two of the writing sessions.
