Trivia / Zac Brown Band

• Black Sheep Hit: "Heavy Is the Head", a collaboration with Chris Cornell, became their first #1 on Mainstream Rock. It's also a great deal heavier than anything else in their already varied catalog.
• Breakup Breakout: Frequent co-writer and former Sir Rosevelt member Niko Moon (aka Nic Cowan) began a solo career in 2020, spearheaded by his debut single "Good Time".
• Chart Displacement: Their longest-lasting #1 hit is "Keep Me in Mind", which is nowhere near as famous as "Chicken Fried" (hands-down their Signature Song), "Toes", "Colder Weather", "Knee Deep", or "Homegrown".
• Creator Backlash: Zig-zagged with "Toes". Zac Brown disliked the fact that the song had to censor the lyric "ass in the sand" for the radio edit, but his co-writer didn't mind.
• Executive Meddling: According to Brown, he gave The Lost Trailers permission to record "Chicken Fried" way back in 2006 (before the ZBB broke out) on the condition that they not release it as a single. But someone at the Trailers' label ignored his request, which promptly led to Zac demanding that the label pull it.
• Fan Community Nicknames: "Zamily".
• Missing Episode:
  • Zac's 2019 solo album The Controversy was temporarily pulled from retailers due to a dispute between him and Shawn Mendes over lead single "Nowhere Left to Go". A re-issue later surfaced with said track removed, but it has since been uploaded legally on YouTube.
  • Their 2020 single "The Man Who Loves You the Most" was never put on an album.
• Network to the Rescue: Atlantic Records picked them up for distribution rights partway through the run of "Chicken Fried". However, they later switched to RPM Entertainment, and reverted to just their own label for The Grohl Sessions before moving again to Big Machine for Jekyll + Hyde, Elektra for Welcome Home, and Wheelhouse for The Owl.
• The Pete Best: Very early in the band's history, Marcus Petruska and Tim Ussery were the drummer and guitarist, with Joel Williams soon replacing the latter. Petruska and Williams are credited on The Foundation, but promotional material was already crediting Chris Fryar and Coy Bowles as members (along with Clay Cook, even though he wasn't on the album either).
• Popularity Redo: "Chicken Fried" was originally released independently, and was re-recorded for Atlantic Records.
• Production Posse: Recurring writers include Wyatt Durrette, Niko Moon (formerly known as Nic Cowan), and Ben Simonetti. The latter two joined Brown for his electronica side project Sir Rosevelt, and Moon had his own hit in 2020 with "Good Time".
• What Could Have Been: "Chicken Fried", twice over: what would have happened if the Lost Trailers had gone through with releasing their version? Alternatively, Alan Jackson revealed that he planned to record it shortly before ZBB's version became a single, but declined because he thought he had too many songs that mentioned food. What would have happened if he had done it?