We now know what the Zac Brown Band had planned with their cryptic Instagram post last week. The band, fronted by Zac Brown, deleted everything on Instagram, except for one post, hinting at a "new chapter." Now, the Zac Brown Band announces a new album, Love & Fear, out on December 5. The 13-track album includes collaborations with Dolly Parton, Snoop Dogg and Marcus King.
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Brown says the new album is very, very honest.
"I think that's what makes our humanity," Brown tells Billboard. "As an artist, you're naked on a fence anyway. And people can either say, 'That's amazing,' or they can throw rotten vegetables at you. But that's a risk that you have to be willing to take. I'm unapologetically musically going to do the things that I feel like I'm led to do.
"It's just an expression of my life and my influences and the things that happened," he adds. "If you don't know who you are, the music industry will chew you up and spit you out the other side. You've got to fight hard for who you are."
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Even before announcing Love & Fear, the Zac Brown Band hinted that they were doing something new with their next project.
"There's no way to sum up what the last chapter has meant to us..." the band writes. "We've played thousands of shows, crossed countless state lines, and seen every kind of weather and welcome you could imagine. Whether you saw us when we were playing covers in Georgia dive bars or you just found us on your drive home last month... You've been a part of this journey.
"You've sung the words, screamed the choruses, cried with us, danced with us, and let this music into your life," they continue. "That kind of connection is not lost on us. It never will be. From every hand we shook, every sign we saw in the crowd, every voice lifted back to us from the front row to the lawn, we felt your love. And we gave it right back, night after night. This isn't goodbye. It's a thank you. A reflection. The next chapter? It's the biggest one yet."
The Zac Brown Band also announces a four-show residency at The Sphere in December. Their collaboration with Snoop Dogg on "Let It Run" will be out this Friday.
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