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  "The Woods"
  Zac: "'The Woods' was so much fun to make. It’s probably my favorite one off of here, it’s got a really fun vibe to it. It’s about letting people be whatever they want to be, whatever side of the fence they want to stand on. It’s about watching them do whatever they want and you do whatever, you do what you do."

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  "Need This"
  Zac: "'Need This' is kind of our tropical song on the album, sometimes you got to get away, go down, blow off some steam and let go."

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  "OMW"
  Zac: “'OMW' is about getting a text, sending somebody a text that you’re on your way like you’re really excited to see somebody and can’t wait to get to them.”

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  "Someone I Used To Know"
  Zac: "'Someone I Used to Know' is about your growth and who you’re becoming, and looking back at your old self, reflecting on who you used to be. It’s about that journey, it sounds familiar as if you’re speaking about someone else, but when you become someone new, you actually are talking about someone else. That’s someone that you used to be.”

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  "Me and the Boys in the Band"
  Zac: "'Me and the Boys in the Band,' that song’s about what our job is to try to take care of the crowd, to try to help them get away and lift the world up off their shoulders. If you got a broken heart and you just need to get away for a good time, I got good news: that’s what me and the boys in the band were born to do."

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  "Finish What We Started" (feat. Brandi Carlile)
  Zac: “'Finish What We Started,' it was a privilege to have Brandi Carlile sing on it. Love her voice, love her, and it’s pretty self-explanatory you just got to listen to it”

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  "God Given"
  Zac: “'God Given' is actually about a naturally beautiful girl that doesn’t require Gucci bags and diamonds and champagne or whatever. If you have class that can’t be bought, I like that in the song because that’s juxtapose, because it sounds like we’re singing about all that being cool but it’s actually about what you got is God given.”

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  "Warrior"
  Zac: "'Warrior' is about what it means to be a warrior. I interviewed Alex Oliver who’s an incredible man, he’s been in the Special Forces for over 21 years. What his journey is, he’s also a wordsmith, and hearing his explanation of what a warrior is. I read a poem that he wrote and wrote the song based on that."

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  "Shoofly Pie"
  Zac: "'Shoofly Pie" is a Wood Brothers’ song. We always pick one cover for every record, that was our cover on this one. It could mean a couple different things, it could mean something that you eat, and it could mean something else."

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  "Already On Fire"
  Zac: "'Already On Fire' is kind of a story song. I wanted this Tarantino kind of rockabilly vibe for it about this little orphan girl that shows up and she grows up and a guy falls in love with her and she just loves to set things on fire. At the end there’s a reveal that the reason she was an orphan is because she had burned her house down. It’s kind of cool, I love that Vincent Price thing they do with ‘Thriller,’ I love the narrator revealing the darkness in the song. It was fun."

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  "Leaving Love Behind"
  Zac: "'Leaving Love Behind,' it says it right there in the title. The hard things you go through, you look back down the road and some time goes by and you realize that might’ve been the best blessing that you could have."

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  Inspiration Behind THE OWL - COY BOWLES
  “I grew up listening to grunge, then punk, then pretty aggressive punk, then got into metal because I was riding skateboards and stuff like that when I was a kid. I still want to feel that energy, even if it’s in ‘Sweet Annie’ or even if it’s in ‘Colder Weather,’ there’s a moment in there where I want it to get that feeling that you felt when you were like, Marshall amp turned up to 10, playing a Misfit song or something like that.”

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  Inspiration Behind THE OWL - CLAY COOK
  “As I get older, I’m starting to look back more often. I’m actually being inspired more by some music right when I started playing guitar, like mid 80s. The 90125 Yes record, Whitesnake, Van Halen, 1984, really they’re inspiring me to play guitar in a different way.”

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  Inspiration Behind THE OWL - DANIEL DE LOS REYES
  “Jazz, Reggae, Bluegrass, Country, Rock, Funk, R&B, Punk, Symphony, Broadway, everything.”

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  Inspiration Behind THE OWL - JIMMY DE MARTINI
  “Lately I’ve been inspired by Post Malone. I don’t get too deep into hip-hop, but he’s able to draw me in through melody. He’s like bending the genre between tradition music and hip-hop and I think that’s a really cool thing.”

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  Inspiration Behind THE OWL - CHRIS FRYAR
  “I enjoy listening to The Beatles. It’s not enough to play a drum part, sometimes you have to play a very minimalistic drum part. Ringo is genius, one of the finest gentlemen I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting and being around. A really damn fine drummer, I love his playing."

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  Inspiration Behind THE OWL - JOHN DRISKELL HOPKINS
  “I think one of the most inspiring records out right now is the one that’s nominated for so many Grammys, it’s the Brandi Carlile one, and it’s fantastic. I just had the chance to see her at 30A in Florida and she was amazing.”

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  Inspiration Behind THE OWL - MATT MANGANO
  "Stevie Wonder and James Brown are number one and two as far as where I draw my inspiration as a bass player, even with Stevie as a songwriter too. For me it doesn’t get better that Stevie and James."

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  Inspiration Behind THE OWL - ZAC BROWN
  “The owl is one of the most spiritual beings on the earth to me, they’re fascinating. They symbolize wisdom, they symbolize foreshadowing. It’s a symbol of power, wisdom and mystery. I’ve always been really drawn to them.”