After two years of pandemic-related touring breaks, plus the stops and starts of getting back on the road, Zac Brown Band is looking ahead to better days: Their summer 2022 calendar is jam-packed with Out in the Middle Tour stops.
That means ZBB are getting the chance to showcase the songs off of The Comeback, their late 2021 album, in a live setting, frontman Zac Brown tells ABC Audio.
After all, The Comeback is a particularly special project for ZBB. The group went back to their early influences for it, and the album's cover art symbolizes that shift: It's a picture of Zac chest-deep in the water of a river near where he grew up. "I've been swimming in that river since I was 10 years old," he says.
Getting back in the same water he grew up with reminds Zac of the groundedness he felt when the band made their first major-label studio album, The Foundation.
"Being able to, you know, take it back to my roots there...and have dirt on my face -- the same way we did The Foundation," he reflects. "I feel a lot of the same way I did when we made the Foundation album."
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