Brown “Rickrolled” himself with “Never Gonna Give You Up,” followed by a funky Silk Sonic album cut “Fly as Me.”ĭuring “Colder Weather,” Brown paused, looked high into the rafters and appeared overcome by emotion over the size of the crowd and the loving reception the entire night. Different band members tackled the vocals of various songs, whether it was Pharrell’s “Happy” (de los Reyes), Michael Jackson’s “The Way You Make Me Feel” (Jones) or Lionel Richie’s “All Night Long (Hopkins). The encore featured opening act the Robert Randolph Band for what Brown called a “mega band” singing a mega medley of pop and R&B hits of stretching five decades.
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Robb Cohen for the Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionĬredit: Robb Cohen for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Zac Brown Band's John Driskell Hopkins during the near sold-out Truist Park concert Friday, Jon their Out in the Middle tour. 1 country airplay hit in six years, and “Out in the Middle,” the latest single with lines like “Just some good old boys and good old girls/hunting red dirt dreams in a concrete world.”Īnd for those who don’t want to think much at all but just want to dance and raise their PBRs in the air, the band gave it their all during alcohol-infused beach songs “Jump Right In” and “Knee Deep.” And de Martini ended the act by giving Satan the appropriate beatdown with his fiddle on “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” There are mid-tempo tunes featuring odes to small-town living, common ground and just being regular folks such as “GA Clay,” “Same Boat,” the band’s first No. The second act added a trio of brass players and two back-up singers, with a stage set up more befitting a stadium show.īy then, the pattern was set, with the band’s catalog of songs fitting largely into one of three categories.īrown’s warm, authentically likable vocals envelop the heartfelt ballads, often tinged with sadness and regret, such as “Goodbye In Her Eyes” and “Sweet Annie.” The band then played an early medley of country classics including “Dixieland Delight,” “9 to 5″ and “Forever and Ever Amen.”Įdit this setlist | More Zac Brown Band setlists Creating a better set list, he said, was the difference between eating ramen that night or a special trip to Taco Bell. (Country musician Caroline Jones recently joined the tour as an honorary member.)īy the fourth song, the core band was all on stage and Brown described how, as the lead of a bar band, he had to read the crowd and decide what covers would work to keep patrons happy, whether it was Pink Floyd or Bill Withers. He then began adding band members, describing how he met each one with an affectionate anecdote or two: John Driskell Hopkins, fiddler Jimmy De Martini, Clay Cook, Coy Bowles, Matt Mangano drummers Daniel de los Reyes and Chris Fryar. 1 country hit “Toes,” a song that effectively evoked Jimmy Buffett with a definable Georgia twist. So he opened the concert with an acoustic version of the 2009 No.
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“A lot of shows were just me and the guitar.”
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“I played many a show there,” he said wistfully. Brown specifically namechecked Dixie Tavern, a mere 1.9 miles from Truist Park, where the band regularly plied its trade before much smaller audiences.