Zac Brown Band’s Southern Ground Music & Food Festival To Return to Nashville
After last year’s bountiful two-day outing, Zac Brown Band will be coming back for more with their second Southern Ground Music & Food Festival, to be held September 27 and 28 in downtown Nashville. The festival and lineup received nothing but praise in 2012, and this one looks to be just as good, if not [...]
Country And Rock Artists Join John Fogerty On Wrote A Song For Everyone
John Fogerty will release his long awaited duets album Wrote A Song For Everyone May 28 on Vanguard Records. The new record, produced by Fogerty and recorded in Nashville, Los Angeles New Orleans and London, finds him revisiting his classic catalog with his musical friends and admirers; from country acts like Keith Urban and Brad [...]
Gregg Allman doesn’t have a catalog of hundreds of original recorded songs like, say, Tom Waits or Willie Nelson. He hasn’t cranked out platinum albums like Bruce Springsteen or Tom Petty. But Allman, as both a member of the legendary Allman Brothers Band and as a solo artist, played a major role in defining the [...]
News Roundup: The Avett Brothers And Randy Travis, Nashville, Emmylou Harris
Next on CMT’s Crossroads: The Avett Brothers and Randy Travis. The episode will premiere on CMT at 11:00 ET/PT on Friday, November 23. Find out what songs were performed. More Neil Young did his first Twitterview, and we’ve got the full transcript. More Record Reviews: Titus Andronicus, Gary Clark Jr., The Doors, Two Gallants, Jason [...]
Zac Brown Band’s Southern Ground Music And Food Festival
Over 23 thousand fans turned out for Zac Brown Band’s Southern Ground Music And Food Festival In Charleston, SC this weekend. Special guests included John Mayer, Gregg Allman and Darius Rucker. Grace Potter, Michael Franti, The Wailers, Charlie Daniels Band and The Avett Brothers also performed. All photos by Southern Reel.
Zac Brown Band Turn In Star-Studded Set At Southern Ground Music And Food Festival
At one point during the her appearance at the Southern Ground Music and Food Festival Saturday night, Sheryl Crow made a remark about how Zac Brown sure knows how to throw a party. She wasn’t kidding. Zac Brown Band’s Southern Ground Music and Food Festival at Nashville’s Riverfront Park drew thousands of people over two [...]
Zac Brown Band Uncaged (Atlantic/Home Grown/Bigger Picture) Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars At this point in their career, with a pair of platinum albums, a hit live record, and enough Top Five country hits to fill a best-of collection, the Zac Brown Band has grown accustomed to dealing with the weight of expectations — [...]
Check out this fun animated video from Zac Brown Band, for their latest single “The Wind.” Directed by Mike Judge (King of the Hill, Beavis and Butt Head) it features a robot version of Zac Brown competing in a sort of impromptu hillbilly Olympics. The song hails from their upcoming album Uncaged, out July 10 [...]
On July 10, multi-platinum country-rock group Zac Brown Band will release Uncaged, the follow-up to their 2010 #1 album You Get What You Give. The new record, to be released on Atlantic Records/Southern Ground Artists, is the first to feature new band member Daniel de los Reyes (Sting, Earth, Wind and Fire), an award-winning percussionist. [...]
Chris Pandolfi Covers MerleFest for American Songwriter
For his day job, Chris Pandolfi plays banjo for The Infamous Stringdusters, a high-octane, Grammy-nominated bluegrass band that has released a string of critically-acclaimed albums on Sugar Hill Records. Pandolfi also moonlights as a videographer, even at times when he’s playing onstage with the Stringdusters. For MerleFest 2011, the banjoist captured live performances as well [...]