The Zac Brown Band's new double live album highlights the power of covers and the joy they bring to audiences. The band has made covers a hallmark of their concerts for twenty years, establishing themselves as one of the biggest live draws.
When the Zac Brown Band launch into the Who’s “Baba O’Riley,” a highlight on their new double live, you can almost hear the synapses firing in the audience. As violinist Jimmy De Martini plays that familiarly frantic riff against a sine-wave synth pattern, the crowd all seem to recognize the song at the same time, and a roar of applause greets the massive power chords.
It’s a moment that speaks to the motivation behind this big bear hug of a covers album: It’s not about reinventing or rearranging these songs, but about reveling in the hits that bring people together. “I love surprising people when we break out a new cover,” Zac Brown says from his home in Nashville, where he’s working on a new studio album of originals. “It has to be something that we all love that’s been an influence on us, but it’s also got to be something that people are going to recognize and be excited to hear.” For twenty years the Georgia-based band has made covers a hallmark of their marathon concerts, which has helped establish the Zac Brown Band as one of the biggest live draws aroun
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