Zac Brown Band’s new album, Jekyll + Hyde, features a wide variety of styles of music, from their laid back new single, “Loving You Easy,” to the more rockin’ “Heavy is the Head,” and Zac says the album is very representative of their live shows. “Our live show, which is really kind of how all this started, is very diverse,” says Zac, “and when you come to see our live show we’ll play really broken down acoustic music with harmony and stories and country songs and we’ll play some heavy metal at some part in the show.”
Zac loves that the band’s fans are so open to their wide range of music and he says, “The people that have come to our shows, they let us curate their music for the evening, and when you look out and you see a 75-year-old grandma that’s out there in the crowd getting down to some Metallica we know they’ve come to our show to be open to that and this is just an extension of that into our albums.”
Jekyll + Hyde also features Zac Brown Band’s latest #1 single, “Homegrown.”
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Zac Brown – “You know, our live show, which is really kind of how all this started, is very diverse, and when you come to see our live show we’ll play really broken down acoustic music with harmony and stories and country songs and we’ll play some heavy metal at some part in the show, and so the people that have come to our shows, they let us curate their music for the evening, and when you look out and you see a 75-year-old grandma that’s out there in the crowd getting down to some Metallica we know they’ve come to our show to be open to that and this is just an extension of that into our albums.”
WHAT THEY’RE DOING THIS WEEK – MAY 18, 2015 – MONDAY
Zac Brown Band scored a nomination last week for the upcoming 2015 CMT Music Awards in the Group Video of the Year category for their video “All Right.” The band has a show this weekend on their “Jekyll + Hyde Tour” in Cincinnati, Ohio on Friday (5/22). They also released a new single called “Loving You Is Easy.”
CMT MUSIC AWARDS 2015 – NOMINEE
GROUP VIDEO OF THE YEAR – Zac Brown Band “All Alright”
The 2015 CMT Music Awards will be handed out live from Nashville on CMT On June 9, 2015.
ZAC BROWN BAND – JUST THE FACTS
MEMBERS: Zac Brown (b. 8/1/1978) (lead vocals, guitar), Jimmy De Martini (fiddle, vocals), John Driskell Hopkins (bass guitar, banjo, ukulele, upright bass, vocals), Coy Bowles (guitar, keyboards), Chris Fryar (drums), Clay Cook (guitar, keyboards, mandolin, steel guitar, vocals), Matt Mangano (bass guitar) and Daniel de los Reyes (percussion)
HOMETOWN / ORIGIN: Dahlonega, Georgia
DEBUT SINGLE: 2008’s “Chicken Fried”
CURRENT ALBUM: – Jekyll + Hyde – Released April 28, 2015
CURRENT SINGLE: “Loving You In Easy” – debuted at number 26 on the Media Base / Country Aircheck chart.
GRAND OLE OPRY DEBUT: 2008
LATEST MUSIC VIDEO – 2015 – “Homegrown”
RECENT TWEETS:
Zac Brown Band @zacbrownband · Sunday, May 17
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Zac Brown Band @zacbrownband · May 16
“Heavy is the head that wears the crown…” Our new lyric video for “Heavy Is the Head” ft. @ChrisCornell is here! http://youtu.be/zfWiAuJVKqM
Zac Brown Band @zacbrownband · May 16
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ZAC BROWN BAND – AWARD WINS
2009 – Academy of Country Music – Top New Vocal Duo or Group
2009 – CMT Music Awards – USA Weekend Breakthrough Video of the Year — “Chicken Fried”
2009 – Grammy Awards – Best New Artist
2010 – Country Music Association Awards – New Artist of the Year
2010 – Grammy Awards – Best Country Collaboration with Vocals — “As She’s Walking Away” (feat. Alan Jackson)
2010 – Academy of Country Music – Top Vocal Event of the Year — “As She’s Walking Away” (feat. Alan Jackson)
2010 – CMT Music Awards – Performance of the Year – “Margaritaville” (Performed by Zac Brown Band and Jimmy Buffet)
2012 – Grammy Awards – Best Country Album – Uncaged