Give This Collab A Chance

Because you need to know that Dave Grohl isn't an idiot for working with a country band. Because you need to know that each member of Zac Brown Band is so incredibly skilled. Because Zac Brown Band is not like every other country band out there--they are so much more.

ZBB covers anyone from The Charlie Daniel Band, Dave Matthews Band, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, and David Gray at their shows. I mean Zac Brown recently appeared at Lock'n Festival and played a set with The String Cheese Incident and Furthur, for god's sake. My friend reminds me all the time of how I thought that Rolling Stone said ZBB uses "rock undertone" was so cool. But legitimately, they serve many audiences.

Their debut album started way more country with song titles like "Chicken Fried" and "Where The Boat Leaves From." Ever since then they have merged more and more into rock with a country twist. On their second album You Get What You Give, they include a 10 minute jam called "Who Knows." On their next album they include collaborators Amos Lee and Trombone Shorty. They host a cross-genre festival in Nashville and Charleston which included Dawes, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes, and Grace Potter & the Nocturnals among others.

The song "Day For The Dead" that ZBB and Dave Grohl performed together at the CMAs a couple weeks ago is an absolute jam. Grohl is producing the next album and there is no ceiling for what that collaboration can produce.

Don't write it off. Neither country fans or rock fans should consider this a terrible move by either party. Give it a chance.