By Wade Tatangelo , Herald-Tribune
/ Wednesday, May 28, 2014
John Driskell Hopkins is pictured third from the right, next to Zac Brown, in this photo of the Zac Brown Band / Photo Credit: Cole Cassell/Southern Reel
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The Grammy-winning Zac Brown Band, an Atlanta-based group that plays a roots-y brand of country which genre-hops enough to appeal to the neo-hippies of the jam band scene, embarked last week on its âGreat American Road Trip Tour.â It includes dates Thursday and Friday at the MidFlorida Amphitheatre on the Florida State Fairgrounds. Itâs the first time in recent memory an act has played back-to-back dates at the 20,000-capacity shed in Tampa. The Zac Brown Band already sold out two shows next month at Fenway Park in Boston.
âItâs flattering and itâs amazing but itâs funny, too,â says Hopkins, a multi-instrumentalist most often seen wielding a guitar on stage. âWe sold out Fenway two nights in a row but we canât sell out Atlanta. We have lots of hometown friends here but thereâs not, say, the same excitement as in Tampa and other places.â