From Billboard: “Zac Brown Band Taps Alan Jackson for New Single”
Kindred spirit Jimmy Buffett and guitar virtuoso Tony Rice will join Alan Jackson as special guests on the new Zac Brown Band album, “You Get What You Give,” which is due out Sept. 21.
They’re all part of what bassist John Driskell Hopkins tells Billboard.com are “some more interesting musical choices on this record,” the follow-up to 2008’s double-platinum “The Foundation.” Jackson is already being heard on the album’s first single, “As She’s Walking Away,” while Buffett appears on “Knee Deep,” which came from a chance meeting in 2009.
“We met him on a camping trip last year,” Hopkins reports, “and just sat around the fire with him for awhile. That was a quick friendship. He’s a real cat, really down to earth and doesn’t have a whole lot of ego and just a super nice guy…We did a lot of vocals down at his place in Key West and he happened to come through, so we got him to sit in and it sounded great. It sounds like a Buffett song when he sings it. Whatever he sings sounds like a Buffett song, y’know?”