If you are waiting for an apology from Zac Brown, you best not hold your breath. The 47-year-old artist has been in the music industry for quite some time now. Zac Brown Band’s debut album, The Foundation, came out in 2008, and they’ve been riding the wave of their hit song “Chicken Fried” ever since. Zac’s group has taken chances and changed things up multiple times throughout the past 10-plus years, and just recently, they announced that a “new chapter” was on the way in the form of a new album called Love & Fear. It could be yet another departure from the beach-country music that first landed Zac Brown and the Zac Brown Band on the map. And at this point, we should kind of expect that, because the “Knee Deep” singer likes to keep things fresh. He actually explained his thought process on that in a recent interview with Bert Kreischer on the Bertcast: “We make a Zac Brown Band record every three years basically. That time in between, I’m writing all the time. No matter what. In between, I’ll usually do a side project. I did a solo album called ‘The Controversy,’ which has a bunch of EDM stuff in it. I worked with a bunch of EDM producers, worked with Skrillex, Pharrell, Max Martin, Benny Blanco and Andrew Watt. The product you get working with those people is different than if I’m using my band as my instrumentation. The great part about working with different people is you learn their process. It’s kind of like going to school, working on those things.” Ah, yes. Zac Brown’s exploration in the electronic dance music genre… He’ll be the first one to tell you that he very much knows not all of his fans like the more upbeat, dance party side of Zac Brown’s musical ventures. But he’ll also be the first to say that he doesn’t care what anyone thinks. Brown went on to say that he’s never going to apologize for any of his music, and he’s certainly not going to say sorry for releasing EDM style projects: “You think back to the Garth Brooks days, you remember he came out with the Chris Gaines thing? The difference with our approach is that I don’t apologize for creating things that are what I want to create. And I love returning to my band and returning to dead-center of what our fanbase was built around. I’m never abandoning that, but I love to go explore.” Explore all you want, but Chris Gaines? Garth is ruthlessly mocked to this day for that… not exactly the kind of comparison that’ll make you go “Ah ok, I get it.” Brown also mentioned another project, called Sir Roosevelt (an EDM band), that he released one album with. Again, he knows that a lot of his fanbase didn’t care for it. Interestingly enough, Zac doesn’t care that others don’t care… and he says that you aren’t ever going to make everyone happy: “Some people see that and they go, ‘Oh, we’ve lost them. They’re going out here to whatever.’ It’s amazing because people get angry when you create something in addition to what they expect sometimes. But that’s also kind of the world we live in right now.” Is it somewhat of a bold strategy to keep releasing music that your fanbase doesn’t necessarily like? I’d say so. But creatively, it seems to be the thing that’s driving Zac Brown, at least in his solo career. Though he says it doesn’t normally affect the product the Zac Brown Band puts forth, I (and many others) would probably beg to differ. However, I can’t fault an artist for trying new things and attempting to stretch out their musical boundaries. You can hear Zac Brown talk more on that in the interview below: The post Zac Brown Says The Difference Between His EDM Music & Garth Brooks’ Chris Gaines Is: “I Don’t Apologize” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.