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Zac Brown Band is an American country music band based in Atlanta, Georgia. The lineup consists of Zac Brown, (lead vocals, guitar), Jimmy De Martini (fiddle, vocals), John Driskell Hopkins (bass guitar, vocals), Coy Bowles (guitar, organ), Chris Fryar (drums) and Clay Cook (guitar, organ, mandolin, steel guitar, vocals). The band has toured throughout the United States, including a slot on the 2009 Bonnaroo Music Festival. It has also recorded four studio albums, and charted four singles on the Billboard country charts in the Number Ones "Chicken Fried" and "Toes", the #2 "Whatever It Is" and "Highway 20 Ride". Zac Brown, born the 11th of 12 children, was raised in Dahlonega, Georgia. He attended Lumpkin County High School, in Dahlonega. He began playing guitar as a teenager. He was often seen walking the halls of his high school playing guitar during his off period and between classes. Previously, Brown and his father owned a restaurant in the Lake Oconee area of Georgia called "Zac's Place". Zac attended the University of West Georgia in Carrolton, GA. He joined Kappa Alpha Order, but only stayed in college for two years.