Zac Brown Band

The Zac Brown Band in July 2012

Zac Brown of the Zac Brown Band at a concert for soldiers stationed in Iraq

The Zac Brown Band is an American neo-traditionalism-country - band , in Atlanta was founded, Georgia.

Band history

The band head Zac Brown grew up in a large musical family as the second youngest of twelve children and received classical guitar lessons for the first time at the age of seven. During high school he performed as a musician and began to play individual songs as well as cover songs. He then began college studies in classical singing, but changed studies several times and finally gave up the study altogether. During this time he played in the band Far from Einstyne and when they broke up he continued as a musician in a duo with the drummer. In 2002 he put together the first full Zac Brown Band, which made almost 200 appearances in the first year. Brown founded his own label Home Grown and released the band's debut album of the same name in 2003. He sold over 30,000 copies of it and of the live album Live from the Rock Bus Tour (2005) in self-distribution . In the meantime he founded a music club with his father, where he performed solo and with a band. After a short time, however, it was sold again and the band toured by bus from performance to performance in clubs and festivals, including the 2006 Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester (Tennessee). At that time the band consisted of Zac Brown (singer, guitar), Jimmy De Martini (violin, vocals), John Driskell Hopkins (bass, background), Coy Bowels (guitar, organ) and Chris Fryar (drums). In 2009 Clay Cook (guitar, organ, vocals) was added.

In 2006 the Zac Brown Band also recorded their third album, The Foundation . It first appeared again on its own label , which has since been renamed Southern Ground , and was then to be taken over by the new label of the concert promoter Live Nation . However, the label was discontinued and so they came to Atlantic Records , which released the album in 2008 USA-wide. It became a huge hit and sold over three million times. It stayed in the US album charts for almost four years and reached number 9 as the best ranking. The debut single Chicken Fried sold two million copies and was the band's first number one hit in the country charts . With Highway 20 Ride , Free and the million seller Toes , three more songs on the album then reached number one. Following this success, the Zac Brown Band was named Newcomer of the Year at the Grammy Awards and the CMA Awards in 2010 . They received two Grammy nominations for the album and the single Chicken Fried .

In the same year, the second label album You Get What You Give was released , which was able to build on the success of its predecessor. In the official album charts and in the country charts it rose to number one and sold over 1.8 million copies. Another four songs made it to number one on the country charts, including Knee Deep , a recording made with country legend Jimmy Buffett . This single brought them their best position in the official single charts with position 18 and sold over two million times. For the collaboration with Alan Jackson on the song As She's Walking Away they received their second Grammy and an ACM Award , the album and the song Free brought two more Grammy nominations.

The third Atlantic album, entitled Uncaged , was released in 2012. Although it came back to number one and was a million seller. It also earned the first Grammy Award for Best Country Album . Nevertheless, it fell short of the great success of the two previous albums. The single No Hurry reached number two in the country charts as the best placement. The following year an EP was released with Dave Grohl as drummer and producer under the title The Grohl Sessions Vol. 1 . The planned sequel did not appear in 2014, but the band released their first greatest hits album.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		CH	UK	US	Country
2008	The Foundation	-	-	US9 × 5 Quintuple platinum (289 weeks)US	Country2 (... weeks) Country
2010	You Get What You Give	-	-	US1 × 3 Triple platinum (171 weeks)US	Country1 (101 weeks) Country
2012	Uncaged	-	UK92 (1 week) UK	US1 platinum (102 weeks)US	Country1 (94 weeks) Country
2015	Jekyll + Hyde	CH66 (1 week) CH	UK36 (1 week) UK	US1 platinum (75 weeks)US	Country1 (99 weeks) Country
2017	Welcome home	CH72 (1 week) CH	UK25 (1 week) UK	US2 (13 weeks) US	Country1 (23 weeks) Country
2019	The Owl	CH69 (1 week) CH	UK78 (1 week) UK	US2 (... weeks) US	Country1 (7 weeks) Country

Live albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		CH	UK	US	Country
2010	Pass the jar	-	-	US17th gold (34 weeks)US	Country2 (75 weeks) Country

Compilations

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		CH	UK	US	Country
2014	Greatest Hits So Far ...	-	-	US20 (243 weeks) US	Country3 (... weeks) Country

EPs

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
		CH	UK	US	Country
2009	Live from Bonnaroo	-	-	US95 (1 week) US	Country20 (5 weeks) Country
2013	The Grohl Sessions Vol. 1	-	-	US25 (4 weeks) US	Country5 (26 weeks) Country	with Dave Grohl

More albums

• Home Grown (2003)
• Live from the Rock Bus Tour (2005)
• The Other Man (2014)

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
2008	Chicken Fried The Foundation	US20th × 6 Six times platinum + gold (physical) (25 weeks)US	Country1 (30 weeks) Country
2009	Whatever It Is The Foundation	US26th × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	Country2 (29 weeks) Country
	Toes The Foundation	US25th × 3 Triple platinum (20 weeks)US	Country1 (22 weeks) Country
	Highway 20 Ride The Foundation	US40 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country1 (25 weeks) Country
2010	Free The Foundation	US34 platinum (19 weeks)US	Country1 (19 weeks) Country
	As She's Walking Away You Get What You Give	US32 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country1 (19 weeks) Country	feat. Alan Jackson
2011	Colder Weather You Get What You Give	US29 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	Country1 (19 weeks) Country
	Knee Deep You Get What You Give	US18th × 3 Triple platinum (20 weeks)US	Country1 (20 weeks) Country	feat. Jimmy Buffett
	Keep Me in Mind You Get What You Give	US35 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country1 (24 weeks) Country
2012	No Hurry You Get What You Give	US50 (16 weeks) US	Country2 (21 weeks) Country
	The Wind Uncaged	US70 (11 weeks) US	Country11 (15 weeks) Country
	Goodbye in Her Eyes Uncaged	US48 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country5 (21 weeks) Country
2013	Jump Right In Uncaged	US53 (15 weeks) US	Country13 (21 weeks) Country
	Sweet Annie Uncaged	US47 gold (17 weeks)US	Country6 (23 weeks) Country
2014	All Alright The Grohl Sessions, Vol. 1	-	Country24 (18 weeks) Country
2015	Homegrown Jekyll + Hyde	US35 × 2 Double platinum (20 weeks)US	Country2 (26 weeks) Country
	Loving You Easy Jekyll + Hyde	US40 platinum (17 weeks)US	Country4 (25 weeks) Country
	Beautiful Drug Jekyll + Hyde	US52 platinum (20 weeks)US	Country5 (27 weeks) Country
2016	Castaway Jekyll + Hyde	US96 (2 weeks) US	Country17 (21 weeks) Country
2017	My Old Man Welcome Home	US68 gold (4 weeks)US	Country10 (24 weeks) Country
	Roots Welcome Home	-	Country39 (8 weeks) Country
2018	Someone I used to know	-	Country23 (21 weeks) Country
2020	The Man Who Loves You the Most	US96 (1 week) US	Country24 (4 weeks) Country
	You And Islands	-	Country46 (1 week) Country
The following songs did not appear as single, but were made available for download and streaming through the album and were thus able to achieve a placement:
2010	A Different Kind of Fine The Foundation	-	Country55 (4 weeks) Country
2015	Tomorrow Never Comes Jekyll + Hyde	-	Country37 (2 weeks) Country
	I'll Be Your Man (Song for a Daughter) Jekyll + Hyde	-	Country50 (1 week) Country
2017	Real Thing Welcome Home	-	Country34 (1 week) Country
	All the best welcome home	-	Country43 (1 week) Country

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1. ↑ Country Music's Top 10 Albums: The Week Of May 28, 2014 , Matt Bjorke, Roghstock, May 28, 2014
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Chart sources: CH - UK - US

Web links

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• Official website
• Zac Brown Band at Allmusic (English)