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Wouldn’t do it without Willie. Billy Strings, like many other artists, has moved away from booze. It seems like country music is going sober these days, or semi-sober, with many artists having reevaluated their relationship with alcohol. Billy Strings, along with Marcus King, Ashley McBryde, Cody Jinks, Jon Pardi, and many, many more have cut out alcohol from their lives. Billy Strings has been sober for a little over nine years, vividly recalling what made him make a change on Theo Von’s This Past Weekend podcast. His last drink was on June 16, 2016. After a wild show and a mountain of merch sales, he celebrated at the bar like any rock star would. But the next morning was so brutal on the van ride to their next show that he vowed to himself he would never pick up a drink again after that. “I remember throwing up every 10 minutes… it made a five-hour drive take seven. We missed soundcheck, had to set up in front of the audience. It was embarrassing… I was like, ‘I’m never doing this again.’ And I haven’t.” But Billy Strings, along with folks like Marcus King, has not cut out all their vices; they have just identified that alcohol is not a vice that serves them. Strings has now followed in the footsteps of  Willie Nelson, utilizing herbal medicine. Over the last few years, the term “California sober” has become very popular, signifying to the sober community that you are sober from alcohol. However, you still like to use cannabis products. In a recent interview with The Australian, journalist Andrew McMillen brought up the term, asking Strings to define it, as the phrase is not commonly used Down Under. Strings defined it as using marijuana but not drinking, and how he and Willie Nelson bonded while touring together over stories of not handling their booze. After getting off the road with Willie, he was inspired to write a tune about the lifestyle they live: “California Sober” “When I wrote that song, I had just came off tour with Willie. I was sitting around my burn pile out back, and I had ripped off a piece of cardboard. I had a melody in my head, and I started writing ‘California Sober.’ It was such a Willie song to me that I was like, ‘I can’t record this song if Willie won’t do it with me.’ It would be like ripping off a Willie song. I was surrounded by Willie Nelson’s music for a week straight, and I went home and I wrote a Willie song, you know? And I was like, ‘He’s got to do it with us.’ So I hit him up and he was like, ‘Yeah, I’ll do it with you.” Billy Strings thankfully didn’t have to think about the tune sitting and collecting up dust, given that Willie Nelson was game as soon as he was asked. Billy Strings admitted that since having his song, “River,” he’s even cut back on his California sober lifestyle, and while he still loves it, he acknowledges that he has a clearer head now that he’s reduced his smoking. “I’ll always be a fan of cannabis, even if I stop smoking. I like it.”  Fire up “California Sober” before you go. The post Billy Strings Says He Wouldn’t Have Recorded “California Sober” Without Willie Nelson: “Would Be Like Ripping Off A Willie Song” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

Zac Brown Band is cooking up something. But what? Zac Brown Band is a country music staple band, formed in 2004. The group kept their nose to the grindstone, performing anywhere they could, which many nights was at frontman Zac Brown’s restaurant and music venue, Zac’s Place. When the band released their first major-label record, The Foundation, in 2008, which featured the famed single “Chicken Fried,” the band experienced a surge in popularity and a rise in fame. “Chicken Fried” was the single that put the band on the map, but that record also featured many other hits, including “Toes,” “Free,” and “Whatever It Is.” Over the last seventeen years, the group has won three Grammy Awards, had numerous nominations for other award shows, and their island-inspired sound has captured and entertained fans. The last major album that Zac Brown Band put out was Comeback in 2021, which was followed by the announcement that their guitar player and co-founder, John Driskell Hopkins, announced that he was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Since that last studio record, the group has released a live album, From The Road, Vol. 1: Covers, some singles, and an EP titled No Wake Zone.  However, there has been no announcement of whether another record is in store. And who knows… maybe they don’t have plans to make another record at all with this cryptic post. On July 8th, the band scrubbed their Instagram page of all existing posts and shared a video highlighting moments from tour over the past few years. In the video’s caption, they write a message implying that a significant change is underway for the band. “There’s no way to sum up what the last chapter has meant to us… We’ve played thousands of shows, crossed countless state lines, and seen every kind of weather and welcome you could imagine. Whether you saw us when we were playing covers in Georgia dive bars or you just found us on your drive home last month… You’ve been a part of this journey. You’ve sung the words, screamed the choruses, cried with us, danced with us, and let this music into your life. That kind of connection is not lost on us. It never will be. From every hand we shook, every sign we saw in the crowd, every voice lifted back to us from the front row to the lawn, we felt your love. And we gave it right back, night after night. This isn’t goodbye. It’s a thank you. A reflection. The next chapter? It’s the biggest one yet. We’ll see you there.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Zac Brown Band (@zacbrownband) While they say “this isn’t goodbye,” it’s hard to think about what could be next for the Georgia-founded band. Could they be revamping the band’s members? Renaming the band? Tapping into a new sound? I mean, your last album was called The Comeback…. you can’t make two comebacks, back to back, right? Only time will tell what’s in store, but I am interested to see what’s in the works. Las Vegas Sphere This timing is also interesting because Zach Brown confirmed on the AMA’s red carpet that he will have a residency in Las Vegas. Last year, Zac Brown sat down with Theo Von for an episode of his This Past Weekend podcast, where he revealed that the Zac Brown Band was working on a residency at the Las Vegas Sphere: “That’s the greatest canvas that has ever been created, so far. And to get to be one of the first bands to go in there and do it…this is our masterpiece, man.”  Zac Brown said at the time (which was over a year ago now) that he had been working with a team for over a year, which is the longest time he has spent putting a show together: “It’s going to be the biggest spectacle we have ever done. I am very excited because this puts us in another league. And the goal is for our band to just keep going, man, and be like The Rolling Stones or the Grateful Dead…yeah, Jimmy Buffett. Be in that legacy act thing. This is really our first thing that I am putting a year plus work into for making one show.” While there wasn’t much information given after that, on the AMA red carpet while talking to the popular livestreamer Kai Cenat, he dropped that he will have a residency later this year. “We’re doing a residency at the Sphere. End of the year.” Could this have something to do with this cryptic Zac Brown Band post? Like I said… Time will tell.The post “This Isn’t Goodbye. It’s A Thank You” – Zac Brown Band Wipes Instagram & Drops Cryptic Post About The “Next Chapter” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

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