Based out of Atlanta, Georgia, the Zac Brown Band is an Academy of Country Music-award winning band which consists of Zac Brown on lead vocals and guitar, Jimmy De Martini on fiddle and vocals, John Driskell Hopkins on bass guitar and vocals, Coy Bowles on guitar and organ, Chris Fryar on drums, and Clay Cook on guitar, organ, mandolin, steel guitar, and vocals.

The Zac Brown Band has toured extensively throughout the United States, accounting for their deep grassroots following, and including a slot on the 2006 Bonnaroo Music Festival. It has also recorded four studio albums, and charted three singles on the Billboard country charts; Chicken Fried at #1, Whatever It Is at #2, and Toes at #4.

Born the 11th of 12 children, Zac Brown was raised in Dahlonega, Georgia, attended Lumpkin County High School, and began playing the guitar as a teenager. Previously, Brown and his father also owned a restaurant called Zac's Place. Zac also began work as a philanthropist and humanitarian, utilizing income from his current album to fund the non-profit Homegrown Camp; which Brown describes as a children's camp that teaches diversity, freedom, teamwork, social justice, nutritional awareness, liberty, and life skills as well as music and art.

The Zac Brown Band released its first album, Far from Einstyne, in 2004, and followed up with Home Grown a year later. Additionally, a live album entitled Live from the Rock Bus Tour followed in 2007 on the Home Grown label.

The Zac Brown Band was then signed by Live Nation Records in 2008. The band's first single, Chicken Fried, originally recorded in 2003 and included on the Home Grown album, was re-recorded and released on country radio in 2008.