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The Owl is the sixth studio album by American country music band Zac Brown Band. It was released on September 20, 2019, through Wheelhouse Records.

The Owl
Studio album by Zac Brown Band
Released	September 20, 2019 (2019-09-20)
Genre	Pop[1][2] EDM[1] country[1] R&B[3]
Length	37:39
Label	BBR Wheelhouse BMG
Producer	Coy Bowles Zac Brown Johan Carlsson Andrew DeRoberts Matt Mangano Max Martin Happy Perez Poo Bear Skrillex Shawn Mendes Sasha Sirota Ryan Tedder Andrew Watt
Zac Brown Band chronology
Welcome Home (2017) The Owl (2019) The Comeback (2021)
Singles from The Owl
"Someone I Used to Know" Released: November 9, 2018 "Leaving Love Behind" Released: January 13, 2020

Content

It is described as the band's "most personal album to date". For this album, the band worked with pop and EDM writer and producers such as Poo Bear, Shawn Mendes, Max Martin, Benny Blanco, Ryan Tedder, and Skrillex. One of the tracks features a collaboration with Brandi Carlile.[4][5]

Critical reception

Kelly Dearmore of the blog Sounds Like Nashville gave a largely negative review, criticizing the lack of country sound relative to the band's preceding albums and comparing many songs negatively to Brown's electronica side project Sir Rosevelt.[1] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic also noted parallels to the Sir Rosevelt album. He concluded his review with "The fact that a good chunk of the numbers work does not erase how deeply strange this album is."[6]

Pip Ellwood-Hughes of Entertainment Focus gave a negative review stating, "Zac Brown Band have shown what they can do in the past and this set of songs doesn't come close. If this were the debut album of a new pop band, it may be received kindlier but this is a misjudged project from a beloved Country band that attempts to push boundaries but will likely just turn their fans off."[3]

Commercial performance

The Owl debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 with 106,000 album-equivalent units, including 99,000 pure album sales. It is Zac Brown Band's sixth US top 10 album.[7] The album has sold 137,100 copies in the United States as of March 2020.[8]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer[9]	Length
1.	"The Woods"	Zac Brown Corey Crowder Sasha Sirota	Brown Sasha Sirota	3:14
2.	"Need This"	Brown Jason Boyd Caroline Jones Andrew DeRoberts Ryan Tedder	Brown DeRoberts Poo Bear Tedder	2:41
3.	"OMW"	Brown Boyd Sirota Sonny Moore	Brown Skrillex Poo Bear Sirota	3:20
4.	"Someone I Used to Know"	Brown Shawn Mendes Niko Moon Andrew Watt Ben Simonetti	Watt Happy Perez	3:29
5.	"Me and the Boys in the Band"	Brown Clay Cook Luke Laird	Brown Bowles Poo Bear	4:40
6.	"Finish What We Started" (featuring Brandi Carlile)	Brown Johan Carlsson Savan Kotecha Max Martin Peter Svensson	Poo Bear Martin	3:35
7.	"God Given"	Brown Carlsson Kotecha Svensson	Brown Carlsson Martin	2:51
8.	"Warrior"	Brown DeRoberts Alexander Oliver	Brown DeRoberts	3:21
9.	"Shoofly Pie"	Tyler Greenwell Chris Wood Oliver Wood	Brown DeRoberts	3:37
10.	"Already on Fire"	Brown Carlsson Kotecha Svensson	Brown Carlsson	2:57
11.	"Leaving Love Behind"	Brown Bowles Cook Phil Hanseroth Tim Hanseroth Jimmy de Martini	Brown Matt Mangano	3:54
Total length:				37:39

Personnel

[10] Zac Brown Band

• Zac Brown – lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitars
• Coy Bowles – electric guitar, electric slide guitar, Hammond organ
• Clay Cook – background vocals, clavinet, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric slide guitar, Fender Rhodes, Hammond organ, Mellotron, pedal steel guitar, piano, tambourine, Wurlitzer
• Daniel de los Reyes – percussion
• Jimmy De Martini – acoustic guitar, background vocals, banjo, cello, electric guitar, violin
• Chris Fryar – drums
• John Driskell Hopkins – background vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo
• Matt Mangano – acoustic and electric bass guitars, Moog bass, acoustic guitar

Additional musicians

Production

Charts

References

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