ZBB plays it both ways on new release, slates tour
The new disc streets April 28 on Southern Ground/John Varvatos Records/Big Machine Label Group/Republic Records. The band will premiere new music from the album this weekend during their first performance on Saturday Night Live.
"Homegrown" is the band's highest charting debut. "Dress Blues", written by Jason Isbell, is a somber tribute to members of the military who have been killed in service; and "Heavy Is the Head", which features Chris Cornell of Soundgarden, makes its world premiere this Friday, March 6 on iHeartRadio's Mainstream and Active Rock station. The album also features a collaboration with Sara Bareilles.
"Jekyl + Hyde" follows Zac Brown Band's three platinum-selling albums, "Uncaged, "You Get What You Give" and "The Foundation'" and their 2013 project "The Grohl Sessions Vol. 1'."
Zac Brown Band is: singer/guitarist Zac Brown, violinist/singer Jimmy De Martini, multi-instrumentalist/singer John Driskell Hopkins, guitarist/organist Coy Bowles, multi-instrumentalist/singer Clay Cook, drummer Chris Fryar, percussionist Daniel de los Reyes and bassist Matt Mangano.
Tracks are:
Beautiful Drug
Loving You Easy
Remedy
Homegrown
Mango Tree (feat. Sara Bareilles)
Heavy Is the Head (feat. Chris Cornell)
Bittersweet
Castaway
Tomorrow Never Comes
One Day
Dress Blues
Young and Wild
Junkyard
I'll Be Your Man (Song for a Daughter)
Wildfire
Tomorrow Never Comes (Acoustic Version)
Tour dates are:
May 1 - Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena
May 7 - Raleigh, NC - Walnut Creek Amphitheatre
May 8-9 - Alpharetta, GA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park
May 16 - Gulf Shores, AL - Hangout Music Festival
May 21 - Maryland Heights, MO - Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
May 22 - Cincinnati, OH - PNC Pavilion at Riverbend Music Center
May 23 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Blossom Music Center
May 24 - Burgettstown, PA - First Niagara Pavilion
June 4 - Charlotte, NC - PNC Music Pavilion
June 5 - Virginia Beach, VA - Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach
June 6 - Hartford, CT - XFINITY Theatre
June 7 - Bangor, ME - Darling's Waterfront Pavilion
June 13 - Jacksonville, FL - Florida County Superfest
June 27 - Ozark, AR - Thunder on the Mountain Festival
June 28 - Milwaukee, WI - Summerfest
July 3 - Denver, CO - Coors Field
July 9 - Salt Lake City, UT - USANA Amphitheatre
July 10 - Boise, ID - Taco Bell Arena
July 11 - George, WA - Gorge Amphitheatre
July 12 - Ridgefield, WA - Amphitheater Northwest
Aug. 6 - Darien Center, NY - Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
Aug. 7-8 - Boston, MA - Fenway Park
Aug. 14 - Washington, DC - Nationals Park
Aug. 15 - Philadelphia, PA - Citizens Bank Park
Aug. 21 - Flushing, NY - Citi Field
Aug. 23 - Bethel, NY - Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
Sept. 6 - Saratoga Springs, NY - Saratoga Performing Arts Center
Sept. 11 - Chicago, IL - Wrigley Field
Sept. 12 - Detroit, MI - Comerica Park
Sept. 19 - Del Mar, CA - Kaaboo Music & Arts Festival
More news for Zac Brown Band
- 08/05/24: ZBB stands behind "Two Blue Chairs & You"
- 04/19/24: ZBB, McAnally look for "Pirates & Parrots"
- 03/12/24: ZBB will "Tie Up" next week
- 02/14/24: South Africa hosts country fest
- 10/27/23: ZBB has "Baby O'Riley" covered
- 09/29/23: ZBB likes "The Way You Look Tonight"
- 12/14/22: ZBB fire up new tour
- 09/16/22: ZBB, Andress join forces "Any Day Now"
CD reviews for Zac Brown Band
If you have even a passing familiarity of Zac Brown's personal history starting around 2018, you know the inspiration for this CD's title. First, Brown's 12-year marriage collapsed. Then, the world shook its collective head when he released a solo pop record ("Controversy") simultaneous to a ZBB release ("The Owl"). Why saturate the market with oneself, especially when the solo outing was a mess? The cover of that pop/hip-hop experimentation said it all: Brown, ...
With "Welcome Home," the Zac Brown Band continues to do what it does best, which is making quality roots music. In fact, one of the album's songs is even titled "Roots." Brown may not be the most religious guy, but his latest songs focus on many truly spiritual cornerstones of life: family and friends.
Both "Family Table" and "My Old Man" find Brown reflecting on his family life, with the latter also looking at 'the here and now' of being a father himself. ...
Fans looking for the Zac Brown Band of 2005 won't find it in "Jekyll + Hyde" - there's nothing but an aftertaste of the Georgia group's chicken-fried origins. That might be why the album's name is so appropriate. Fans have gotten to know the country-folk band, but a deviant creeps in on all 16 tracks of its fourth album. And, like the classic story, Hyde stands out as more interesting.
It hits hard, too. The opener, "Beautiful Drug," has an electric-pop ...
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