ZBB, LBT again lead charts
LBT was first on the songs charts with "Girl Crush" Sam Hunt stayed second with "Take Your Time" and Florida Georgia Line third with "Sippin' On Fire." Blake Shelton was fourth with "Sangria," while "Smoke" from A Thousand Horses was fifth, the group's first hit.
Chris Young debuted in eighth with "I'm Coming Over." The rest of the top 25 had little change.
On the album chart, ZBB was first with "Jekyll + Hyde." Hunt was second with "Montevallo." "Nashville: The Music of Season 3: Volume 2" debuted in third. Chris Stapleton was fourth with "Traveller" and Reba McEntire fifth with "Love Somebody." Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell debuted in eighth with "The Traveling Kind."
The compilation disc, "NOW That's What I Call ACM Awards: 50 Years" debuted at 14. Cole Swindell was at 18 with his self-titled disc, up 3.
On the Bluegrass Albums chart, Dailey & Vincent stayed first with "Alive! In Concert." Della Mae jumped from 10 to 2 with its self-titled second disc. Steve 'N' Seagulls debuted at three with "Farm Machine." Rhonda Vincent was fourth with "Only Me." Robert Earl Keen was fifth with "Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions."
On the top 200, ZBB was 7th, Hunt 17th, Little Big Town 24th, "Nashville" 28th, and Florida Georgia Line 36th. The top 200 and country albums chart use different criteria.
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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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