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- Artist(s): John Hopkins, Zac Brown, Chris Fryar, Jimmy de Martini
- Summary: Combining country twang with a bit of experimentation, the Zac Brown Band's second album is a genre-mixing country-rock record.
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- Record Label: Atlantic
- Genre(s): Country
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| As She's Walking Away | |
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| We never spoke a word But every thought she had I heard from across the room If we were standing face to face I couldn't find the words to say Give... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Perhaps what's most encouraging about You Get What You Give, though, is that Zac Brown Band hasn't played it safe. Instead, they've played fast and loose with a set of influences that owe far less to country music than to Southern rock, jam bands, and reggae.
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This is a band built for flexibility at live shows and for stretching numbers out, but thanks to Brown's easy, natural honky tonk singing and sharp songwriting, ZBB also deliver confidently in the tighter restraints of a studio setting.
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The circuitous path to success has done the band good: it's given Brown and company time enough to develop a winsome country-rock style without undue meddling from the major-label mediocracy, and it shows on You Get What You Give.
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Though You Get What You Give is not their strongest offering to date, it certainly points to a most promising future. And that in and of itself is probably all the music world really needs.
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While no one wants an existential crisis at the beach barbecue, these guys really shine when they ditch the polish in favor of some bite.
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He has a great voice, but most songs on this follow-up release fall into the sugary commercial country column.
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Oct 13, 2011
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