Zac Brown Band

Zac Brown Band is an American nation/people group located in Atlanta, Ga about the Southern Floor Artists label. The line up consists of Zac Brown ( lead vocals , guitar ), Jimmy De Martini ( fiddle , vocals), John Driskell Hopkins ( bass guitar , singing ), Coy Bowles (guitar, keyboards ), Chris Fryar ( drums ), Clay Cook (guitar, keyboards, mandolin , metal guitar , singing), and Daniel d e los Reyes (percussion). The group has toured through the United States Of America, including a time slot on this year’s and 2010 Bonnaroo Music Festival They’ve also recorded five studio albums, and charted ten Number-One singles in the Billboard country charts: Chicken Fried, Toes, Highway 20 Trip, Free, As She is Walking Away, Colder Weather, Knee Deep, Keep Me In Thoughts, Goodbye in Her Eyes, and Sweet Annie, along with the singles Whatever It’s, No Rush, and Leap Right In, which peaked at number two, and The Air current, which peaked at number 11. Early Years

Zac Brown was created July 3 1, 1978 in Cumming, Ga. He grew up by his mother and stepdad, a dental practitioner, on Lake Lanier. The eleventh of 12 kids, Brown attended Mashburn Elementary-School in Cumming, Ga, Lake-View Academy in Gainesville, Ga, and South Forsyth High-School in Cumming. He afterwards moved to Dahlonega, Ga, where he graduated from Lumpkin County High-School. He discovered to perform classical guitar in age 7. As an adolescent, he played solo shows in local sites, performing state and pop cover songs. Brown attended the College of West Georgia , where he became a part of the Zeta Kappa chapter of the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity. He was likewise a camp counselor at Camp Mikell in Toccoa, Ga. & Camp Glisson, an United Methodist summer-camp and retreat facility positioned in Dahlonega, Georgia. Foundation

In 2002, Zac Brown was touring having a substantial tour program of around 200 dates annually. The first Zac Brown line up consisted of Brown, on direct vocals and electric guitar, backed with a bass guitarist along with a drummer. In 2003, Brown began his own-label, called Homegrown (nowadays, it’s called Southern Floor for lawful reasons).

In 2004, Brown opened an audio nightclub and eatery together with his dad in the Lake Oconee part of Ga, calledZac’s Location; where the fare was southern-type cooking. A programmer purchased the eatery and, subsequently, the Zac Brown Band purchased a tour bus and started touring full time, enjoying rock and country clubs together with folk and jam band festivals. 2004 also observed the launch of the Zac Brown’s first impartial record, Home grown

It was additionally in 2004 when Brown added fiddler/fiddler and tenor vocalist Jimmy D e Martini to the Zac Brown Band line up. Based on an interview with D e Martini, he described that Wyatt Durette, Brown’s regular songwriting collaborator, was employed as a bar tender at Side-Lines Sports Bar in Kennesaw, Ga in the time, where the Zac Brown Band often performed. Durette proposed De Martini to Brown, who had been needing ahead instrument; in his group, in addition to a harmony vocalist. After performing several performances using the group in the nightclub, Brown requested De Martini becoming a long-term member, to which D e Martini happily obliged.