In the early stage of his musical career, the entrepreneurial Zac Brown opened a
restaurant with his step-father in Lake Oconee, a popular tourist location in
Georgia. Within a year a developer had made them an offer they couldn't refuse
and Brown spent the proceeds on a tour bus and funded his first album 'Home
Grown' with the change.
Their debut single, 'Chicken Fried', which featured on 'Home Grown', was later
re-recorded and put out as a single in 2008. With this the band took off and
could be regularly heard on country radio. 'Chicken Fried' gave the band their
first ch...