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The ghost of Sir Rosevelt looms over The Owl. Zac Brown's dance side project released an album soon after Welcome Home, the 2017 album from the Zac Brown Band, but it was buried, not even making an appearance on Billboard's Top 400. Brown didn't interpret this lack of success as rejection. Instead, he decided to push the Zac Brown Band firmly into pop, inviting Max Martin, Ryan Tedder, Poo Bear, and Skrillex into the studio to collaborate. This list of premium pop and dance producers suggests that The Owl is a far cry from the downhome charms of the Dave Cobb-produced Welcome Home, and that's true. The Owl gleams like a shiny new trinket from an upscale mall, its individual songs designed to ease onto any playlist you'd fancy. Nominally country, The Owl often throbs to electronic rhythms and is slathered in synths, to the point where even a funky blues number like "Me and the Boys in the Band" is polished so it could be considered pop. Unlike so many pop moves from country artists, The Owl is executed cleverly, never renouncing the core elements of the Zac Brown Band: "Shoofly Pie" is a loose-limbed rocker designed to keep the crowds moving during the mid-set, and "Leaving Love Behind" leans into Brown's James Taylor side. These cozy numbers just happen to be anomalies on The Owl. The rest of the record finds Brown defiantly bringing the glitzy party sensibility of Sir Rosevelt into the Zac Brown Band, getting his main group to play EDM rhythms, take a detour into rap, and play a ballad co-written by Shawn Mendes. The fact that a good chunk of the numbers work does not erase how deeply strange this album is. A band who once celebrated the simple pleasures of toes in the sand are now singing about champagne glasses filled with diamonds and, no matter how many times The Owl is spun, it's impossible to tell how they got to this point.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Clay Cook, Electric Guitar, Organ, Background Vocals, Wurlitzer - Jaycen Joshua, Engineer - Chris Fryar, Drums - Coy Bowles, Electric Guitar - Jimmy De Martini, Violin, Background Vocals - John Driskell Hopkins, Engineer, Background Vocals - ZAC BROWN, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer - Zac Brown Band, MainArtist - Dave Kutch, Engineer - Brandon Bell, Engineer - Matt Mangano, Engineer, Bass Guitar, Assistant Production - Corey Crowder, Writer - Daniel de los Reyes, Percussion - Sasha Sirota, Producer, Engineer, Writer, Background Vocals, Drum Programmer - Dan Davis, Engineer - Jacob Richards, AssistantEngineer - Mike Seaberg, AssistantEngineer - DJ Riggins, AssistantEngineer - Don Satchmo, Drums - Evan Wilber, Engineer - Preston Tate White, Engineer
© 2019 No Reserve, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 No Reserve, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Ryan Tedder, Producer, Writer, Background Vocals - Clay Cook, Electric Guitar, Organ, Fender Rhodes Piano, Background Vocals - Jason Boyd, Producer, Writer - Chris Fryar, Drums - Coy Bowles, Electric Guitar - Jimmy De Martini, Background Vocals - John Driskell Hopkins, Electric Guitar, Background Vocals - ZAC BROWN, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer - Zac Brown Band, MainArtist - Dave Kutch, Engineer - Michael H. Brauer, Engineer - Caroline Jones, Writer - Brandon Bell, Engineer - Matt Mangano, Acoustic Bass - Daniel de los Reyes, Percussion - Fernando Reyes, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Andrew DeRoberts, Producer, Engineer, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Writer, Background Vocals, Drum Programmer, Synth Bass, Wurlitzer Piano - Dan Davis, Engineer - Evan Wilber, Engineer - Preston Tate White, Engineer
© 2019 No Reserve, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 No Reserve, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Clay Cook, Keyboards, Fender Rhodes Piano - Jason Boyd, Producer, Writer - Chris Fryar, Drums - Coy Bowles, Electric Guitar - Jimmy De Martini, Electric Guitar - John Driskell Hopkins, Engineer, Acoustic Guitar - ZAC BROWN, Producer, Lead Vocals, Writer - Zac Brown Band, MainArtist - Dave Kutch, Engineer - Michael H. Brauer, Engineer - Sonny Moore, Writer - Skrillex, Producer, Engineer, Electric Guitar, Keyboards, Assistant Programmer - Brandon Bell, Engineer - Matt Mangano, Engineer, Bass Synthesizer, AssistantProducer - Daniel de los Reyes, Percussion - Sasha Sirota, Producer, Writer - Tom Norris, AssistantProducer - Fernando Reyes, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Drew Gold, AssistantProducer - Gabe Sackier, AssistantEngineer
© 2019 No Reserve, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 No Reserve, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Happy Perez, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer - Clay Cook, Electric Guitar, Organ, Piano - John Hanes, Engineer - Serban Ghenea, Engineer - Chris Fryar, Drums - Coy Bowles, Electric Guitar - Jimmy De Martini, Violin, Vocals - John Driskell Hopkins, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals - ZAC BROWN, Composer, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Programmer, Lead Vocals, Writer - Zac Brown Band, MainArtist - Dave Kutch, Engineer - Paul Lamalfa, Engineer - Brandon Bell, Engineer - Matt Mangano, Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar - Daniel de los Reyes, Percussion - Andrew Watt, Producer, Drums, Electric Guitar, Keyboards, Programmer - Ben Simonetti, Composer, Writer - Shawn Mendes, Composer, Writer, Background Vocals - Niko Moon, Composer, Writer - Andrew Wotman, Composer, Writer - Preston White, Engineer - Evan Wilber, Engineer
© 2019 No Reserve, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 No Reserve, Inc. under exclusive license to This Is Hit, Inc. d/b/a BBR Music Group
Clay Cook, Producer, Engineer, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Organ, Piano, Writer, Background Vocals - Luke Laird, Programmer, Writer - Jason Boyd, Producer - Chris Fryar, Drums - Coy Bowles, Electric Guitar, Slide Guitar - Jimmy De Martini, Violin, Background Vocals - John Driskell Hopkins, Banjo, Background Vocals - ZAC BROWN, Producer, Electric Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer - Zac Brown Band, MainArtist - Dave Kutch, Engineer - Michael H. Brauer, Engineer - Brandon Bell, Engineer - Matt Mangano, Engineer, Additional Producer, Bass - Daniel de los Reyes, Percussion - Fernando Reyes, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Dan Davis, Engineer - Evan Wilber, Engineer - Preston Tate White, Engineer
© 2019 No Reserve, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 No Reserve, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Brandi Carlile, FeaturedArtist - Max Martin, Producer, Background Vocals - Savan Kotecha, Composer - Peter Svensson, Guitar - Clay Cook, Engineer, Electric Guitar, Organ, Background Vocals - Peter Karlsson, Producer - John Hanes, Engineer - Serban Ghenea, Engineer - Sam Holland, Engineer - Chris Fryar, Drums - Coy Bowles, Electric Guitar - Jimmy De Martini, Background Vocals - John Driskell Hopkins, Engineer, Background Vocals - ZAC BROWN, Composer, Lead Vocals - Zac Brown Band, MainArtist - Johan Carlsson, Composer, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Organ, Percussion, Piano, Drum Programmer, Bass, Synthesizer - Dave Kutch, Engineer - Brandon Bell, Engineer - Matt Mangano, Engineer, Bass Guitar - Daniel de los Reyes, Percussion - Cory Bice, Engineer - Dan Davis, Engineer - Jeremy Lertola, Engineer - Anders Peter Svensson, Composer
© 2019 No Reserve, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 No Reserve, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Max Martin, Producer - Savan Kotecha, Writer - Peter Svensson, Writer - Clay Cook, Electric Guitar, Organ, Background Vocals - John Hanes, Engineer - Serban Ghenea, Engineer - Sam Holland, Engineer - Chris Fryar, Drums - Coy Bowles, Electric Guitar - Jimmy De Martini, Violin, Background Vocals - John Driskell Hopkins, Engineer, Electric Guitar, Background Vocals - ZAC BROWN, Lead Vocals, Writer - Zac Brown Band, MainArtist - Johan Carlsson, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Tambourine, Writer, Background Vocals, Drum Programmer - Dave Kutch, Engineer - Brandon Bell, Engineer - Matt Mangano, Bass Guitar - Michael Engstrom, Bass Guitar - Daniel de los Reyes, Percussion - Tove Lo, FeaturedArtist - Cory Bice, Engineer - Dan Davis, Engineer - Jeremy Lertola, Engineer - Doris Sandberg, Background Vocals - Colette Carlsson, Background Vocals - Evan Wilber, Engineer - Preston Tate White, Engineer
© 2019 No Reserve, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 No Reserve, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Clay Cook, Electric Guitar, Piano, Vocals, Mellotron - Chris Fryar, Drums - Coy Bowles, Electric Guitar - Jimmy De Martini, Violin, Vocals - John Driskell Hopkins, Electric Guitar, Vocals - ZAC BROWN, Producer, Lead Vocals, Writer - Zac Brown Band, MainArtist - Dave Kutch, Engineer - Michael H. Brauer, Engineer - Alexander Oliver, Writer - Brandon Bell, Engineer - Matt Mangano, Bass - Daniel de los Reyes, Percussion - Fernando Reyes, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Andrew DeRoberts, Producer, Engineer, Electric Guitar, Keyboards, Writer, Drum Programmer, Synth Bass - Dan Davis, Engineer - Evan Wilber, Engineer - Preston Tate White, Engineer
© 2019 No Reserve, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 No Reserve, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Clay Cook, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Organ, Tambourine, Vocals - Christopher Wood, Writer - F. Reid Shippen, Engineer - Chris Fryar, Drums - Coy Bowles, Slide Guitar - Jimmy De Martini, Acoustic Guitar, Violin, Vocals - John Driskell Hopkins, Electric Guitar, Vocals - ZAC BROWN, Producer, Lead Vocals - Zac Brown Band, MainArtist - Dave Kutch, Engineer - Brandon Bell, Engineer - Tyler Greenwell, Writer - Matt Mangano, Bass - Oliver Wood, Writer - Daniel de los Reyes, Percussion - Andrew DeRoberts, Producer, Engineer, Acoustic Guitar, Programmer - Dan Davis, Engineer - Michael Mechling, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Evan Wilber, Engineer - Preston Tate White, Engineer
© 2019 No Reserve, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 No Reserve, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Savan Kotecha, Writer - Peter Svensson, Writer - Clay Cook, Engineer, Electric Guitar, Pedal Steel Guitar, Background Vocals - Peter Karlsson, Producer - Sam Holland, Engineer - Chris Fryar, Drums - Coy Bowles, Electric Guitar, Organ - Jimmy De Martini, Violin, Background Vocals - John Driskell Hopkins, Engineer, Background Vocals - ZAC BROWN, Producer, Lead Vocals, Writer - Zac Brown Band, MainArtist - Johan Carlsson, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Piano, Tambourine, Writer, Drum Programmer, Synthesizer, Hand Clap - Dave Kutch, Engineer - Michael H. Brauer, Engineer - Brandon Bell, Engineer - Matt Mangano, Bass Guitar - Daniel de los Reyes, Percussion - Fernando Reyes, Assistant Mixing Engineer - Dan Davis, Engineer - Jeremy Lertola, Engineer - Evan Wilber, Engineer, AssistantEngineer - Preston Tate White, Engineer
© 2019 No Reserve, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 No Reserve, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
Clay Cook, Organ, Piano, Vocals, Writer, Mellotron - Tim Hanseroth, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Writer - Phil Hanseroth, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Writer - Chris Fryar, Drums - Coy Bowles, Writer - Jimmy De Martini, Cello, Violin, Vocals - John Driskell Hopkins, Vocals - ZAC BROWN, Producer, Lead Vocals, Writer - Zac Brown Band, MainArtist - Dave Kutch, Engineer - Jimmy DeMartini, Writer - Brandon Bell, Engineer - Matt Mangano, Editor, Acoustic Guitar - Dan Davis, Engineer - Evan Wilber, Engineer - Preston Tate White, Engineer
© 2019 No Reserve, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 No Reserve, Inc. under exclusive license to This Is Hit, Inc. d/b/a BBR Music Group
Album review
The ghost of Sir Rosevelt looms over The Owl. Zac Brown's dance side project released an album soon after Welcome Home, the 2017 album from the Zac Brown Band, but it was buried, not even making an appearance on Billboard's Top 400. Brown didn't interpret this lack of success as rejection. Instead, he decided to push the Zac Brown Band firmly into pop, inviting Max Martin, Ryan Tedder, Poo Bear, and Skrillex into the studio to collaborate. This list of premium pop and dance producers suggests that The Owl is a far cry from the downhome charms of the Dave Cobb-produced Welcome Home, and that's true. The Owl gleams like a shiny new trinket from an upscale mall, its individual songs designed to ease onto any playlist you'd fancy. Nominally country, The Owl often throbs to electronic rhythms and is slathered in synths, to the point where even a funky blues number like "Me and the Boys in the Band" is polished so it could be considered pop. Unlike so many pop moves from country artists, The Owl is executed cleverly, never renouncing the core elements of the Zac Brown Band: "Shoofly Pie" is a loose-limbed rocker designed to keep the crowds moving during the mid-set, and "Leaving Love Behind" leans into Brown's James Taylor side. These cozy numbers just happen to be anomalies on The Owl. The rest of the record finds Brown defiantly bringing the glitzy party sensibility of Sir Rosevelt into the Zac Brown Band, getting his main group to play EDM rhythms, take a detour into rap, and play a ballad co-written by Shawn Mendes. The fact that a good chunk of the numbers work does not erase how deeply strange this album is. A band who once celebrated the simple pleasures of toes in the sand are now singing about champagne glasses filled with diamonds and, no matter how many times The Owl is spun, it's impossible to tell how they got to this point.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:37:37
- Main artists: Zac Brown Band
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
- Genre: Country
© 2019 No Reserve, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC ℗ 2019 No Reserve, Inc. under exclusive license to BMG Rights Management (US) LLC
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