The Foundation, the major-label debut by Zac Brown Band, arrived in 2008. Coy Bowles, a guitarist/pianist, became a permanent member of the Zac Brown Band in 2006, and not long afterward, the group signed to Live Nation Artists Records. Another member arrived in John Driskell Hopkins, a multi-instrumentalist who produced Home Grown he joined the group as their bassist. The Zac Brown Band continued to take shape over the course of 2004, with fiddle player/vocalist Jimmy De Martini joining a lineup that also featured drummer Marcus Petruska. It earned the attention of a developer, who bought the establishment Brown channeled his proceeds into a tour bus and financing his first album, Home Grown, which appeared in 2004. The following year, he and his father opened Zac's Place, a Lake Oconee restaurant that featured local music.
He founded his own label, Southern Ground (it was originally called Home Grown) in 2003, and his entrepreneurial side didn't stop there. While he attended the University of West Georgia, he played concerts with growing frequency.īy 2002, Brown formed the initial version of the Zac Brown Band, who played regularly throughout the South. He started playing these songs along with selected covers at coffee houses when he was a teenager. His taste was omnivorous, spanning pop, country, bluegrass, and rock, influences that manifested in his original material. Raised in a blended family - he lived with his mother and his stepfather, who was a dentist - Brown was drawn to music at an early age, learning to play his mother's guitar when he was eight. This sense of musical adventure led Zac Brown Band to cut a 2014 EP with Foo Fighters rocker Dave Grohl and to dive deep into pop music on 2019's The Owl, yet these creative instincts also helped the group cultivate a loyal following who were happy to roll with the changes, especially when the ZBB returned to their tried-and-true Southern-fried sound, as they did on 2021's The Comeback.īorn in Atlanta, Zac Brown grew up in the Lake Lanier region in the north Georgia mountains. For a while, ZBB continued in that vein, scoring another breezy, beachy hit with "Knee Deep" and underscoring their '70s singer/songwriter heritage with the warm, burnished ballad "Colder Weather," but soon the group proved themselves to be a restless jam band, as eager to crank up the amps as they were to ride a supple groove. Zac Brown Band became stars in the late 2000s on the strength of the number one country hits "Chicken Fried" and "Toes," songs that seemed like throwbacks to the country-rock of the '70s.
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