{"id":17157,"date":"2019-07-31T09:23:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T15:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1809783"},"modified":"2019-07-31T09:23:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T15:23:31","slug":"zac-brown-band-four-songs-for-the-family-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/zac-brown-band-four-songs-for-the-family-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Zac Brown Band: Four Songs for the Family Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:387459?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/morrise\/\" title=\"Posts by Edward Morris\" rel=\"author\">Edward Morris<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">14m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>From \u201cChicken Fried\u201d to \u201cToes\u201d to \u201cKnee Deep\u201d and on and on, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/zac-brown-band\">Zac Brown Band<\/a> have celebrated the sunny side of life \u2014 as in beach-and-babes sunny. Fewer in number but greater in emotional impact, however, are Brown\u2019s songs about the comforts and obligations of family.<\/p>\n<p>Today (July 31), as Brown\u2019s biological odometer rolls over to 41 and as beach life becomes as much a hazard as a haven for aging bodies, it seems a good time to look back at four of Brown\u2019s more domestic-oriented songs and music videos.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gZMCkufE0X0?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gZMCkufE0X0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHighway 20 Ride\u201d is heartbreakingly lonely. In it, a father separated by divorce from the son he loves faces the bleakness of a long drive every other week to see \u2014 and then to leave \u2014 the boy. Will the son misconstrue these too short and too infrequent visits, the father wonders, as lack of love? \u201c\u2026 A part of you might hate me\/but son please don\u2019t mistake me\/for a man that doesn\u2019t care at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y5ISTO6GiLk?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y5ISTO6GiLk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Strictly speaking, the lyrics to \u201cSweet Annie\u201d aren\u2019t about family. But the singer clearly yearns for one \u2014 for a retreat from a minstrel\u2019s life on the road. \u201cPretty girls and late night bars seem to be my line of work\/Believe me when I say I can\u2019t stay this high forever\/This man\u2019s had all he can stand, time to lay this body down.\u201d And the music video, which was shot in and around the actual wedding of ZBB member Coy Bowles, is replete with warm family images.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q14OUbW5vlM?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q14OUbW5vlM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll Be Your Man (Song for a Daughter)\u201d is tenderly strong and fiercely protective in tone, as opposed to beaten down feeling in \u201cHighway 20 Ride.\u201d Dream, dance, play, take chances, the doting father advises his little girl, \u201cuntil then I\u2019ll be your man.\u201d The official music video is an eight-plus minute mini-epic that traces the daughter from childhood to adolescence to loss of innocence to exposure to the perils of the world, but always with a vigilant father at hand.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T_uGcW-v5EI?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T_uGcW-v5EI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Then there\u2019s \u201cMy Old Man,\u201d a scrapbook of paternal affection, that brings to mind such country classics as Jimmie Rodgers\u2019 \u201cDaddy and Home\u201d and Gene Autry\u2019s \u201cSilver Haired Daddy of Mine.\u201d The dad here is recalled as a \u201cgiant\u201d and a \u201clion,\u201d a pattern for what fatherhood should be about. It ends with the wish that the singer\u2019s son will similarly adore and appreciate his \u201cold man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the end, it\u2019s all in the family.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Edward Morris is a veteran of country music journalism. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a frequent contributor to CMT.com.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1809783\/zac-brown-band-four-songs-for-the-family-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Morris 14m ago From \u201cChicken Fried\u201d to \u201cToes\u201d to \u201cKnee Deep\u201d and on and on, Zac Brown Band have celebrated the sunny side of life \u2014 as in beach-and-babes sunny. Fewer in number but greater in emotional impact, however, are Brown\u2019s songs about the comforts and obligations of family. Today (July 31), as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 19:08:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}