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Zac Brown Band paid tribute to the late Jimmy Buffett with a bittersweet cover of his iconic “Margaritaville” on the band’s new collection of live cover performances. From The Road, Vol. 1: Covers made its highly-anticipated debut on Friday (November 10). The album release comes two day after Zac Brown Band — along with Alan Jackson, Kenny Chesney and Mac McAnally — remembered Buffett with a special performance during the 57th annual CMA Awards in Downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Zac Brown Band said as they shared a clip of the CMA Awards performance on Instagram on Friday that that moment “felt like a party with all our friends… just like Jimmy would have wanted.”
Th 13-track album also includes “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Baba O’Riley,” “Eleanor Rigby” and other iconic songs covered by Zac Brown Band over the last decade. The Grammy Award-winning group’s first-ever live covers album also includes features with John Mayer, Steven Tyler, Marcus King, Darrell Scott and Mark O’Connor Band.
- Bohemian Rhapsody (Live at The SSE Arena, Wembley, London, UK, 09.25.2015)
- Baba O’Riley (Live at Fenway Park, Boston, MA, 08.20.2016)
- Enter Sandman (Live at Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL, 09.14.2014)
- Sabotage (Live at Windy City Smokeout, Chicago, IL, 7.16.2023)
- Sweet Emotion feat. Steven Tyler (Live at Fenway Park, Boston, MA, 08.09.2015)
- Whipping Post feat. Marcus King (Live at Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TN, 10.17.2021)
- Margaritaville (Live at Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek, Raleigh, NC, 10.05.2023)
- It's A Great Day To Be Alive feat. Darrell Scott (Live at Fenway Park, Boston, MA, 06.16.2018)
- Eleanor Rigby feat. Darrell Scott & Mark O’Connor Band (Live at Fenway Park, Boston, MA, 06.16.2018)
- With a Little Help From My Friends feat. Darrell Scott & Mark O’Connor Band (Live at Fenway Park, Boston, MA, 06.16.2018)
- Neon feat. John Mayer (Live at the Southern Ground Music and Food Festival, Nashville, TN, 09.22.2012)
- Use Somebody (Live at Jiffy Lube Live, Bristow, VA, 08.25.2019)
- The Way You Look Tonight (Live at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre, Irvine, CA, 06.04.2016)
Zac Brown Band, Megan Moroney and Uncle Kracker are slated to join Chesney on his headlining “When the Sun Goes Down 2024 Tour,” set to kick off in the spring. The nationwide stadium trek includes stops in Florida, Texas, Georgia, Washington, California and other destinations before coming to an end on August. See the full list of dates below.
Find the full From The Road, Vol 1: Covers album on iHeartRadio here, and listen to “Margaritaville” here:
April 20 — Tampa, FL
April 27 — Charlotte, NC
May 4 — Minneapolis, MN
May 11 — Arlington, TX
May 18 — Atlanta, GA
May 25 — Landover, MD
June 1 — Pittsburgh, PA
June 8 — Philadelphia, PA
June 15 — Chicago, IL
June 22 — Milwaukee, WI
July 6 — Kansas City, MO
July 13 — Seattle, WA
July 20 — Los Angeles, CA
July 27 — Denver, CO
August 3 — Nashville, TN
August 10 — Detroit, MI
August 17 — East Rutherford, NJ
August 23 — Foxborough, MA
August 24 — Foxborough, MA