Zac Brown Band Analysis

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The Zac Brown Band is one of the most cavort country music bands of this generation. The band presents their music in a relatable fashion so their fans can have a few stagnant moments of self-awareness before returning to their usual fast-paced lives. The band accomplishes this by making their music comfortably fluent and sometimes emotional. In a review published by the New York Times entitled “Farmer’s Market Sounds, Comfortable as an Old Guitar,” the author, Jon Caramanica, presents the band’s latest album, “Uncaged,” by ripping the album into its basic elements to laud and denounced the imbalanced spectrum of their music.
The author begins the article by addressing the overall style of the band, which is comfort. Comfort is a reoccurring

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