Zac Brown Band Talks New Tour & Creating Their Recent Sphere Residency: ‘You Learn Your Limits’
Categoria: Musica
The Love & Fear Tour follows the band's independently released album.
Por Billboard | 10/07/2026
The Zac Brown Band ‘s eight-show residency during December and January at Sphere in Las Vegas was the group’s most conceptually ambitious to date, a visually rich and personal, often autobiographical treatise over the course of more than two dozen songs. You had to be there to see it, of course, but Brown says the ZBB’s upcoming Love & Fear Tour — which begins July 17 in Grand Rapids, Mich. — will bring a taste of that production to fans around the country. “We had to put together something that would be interesting if somebody did come see us at Sphere but also give a little taste for the people that didn’t,” Brown tells Billboard via phone from his getaway home in Alaska. “There’s some of the beautiful stuff that we want to share, with narration and the story that kind of threads through; I told so much of my personal story, of when I was a kid and my life and the things that happened along that way that drove me toward music. But we also need a fresh show for everybody. “We don’t have four acres of video to use out there, so we definitely borrowed some of the visual elements, scaled down to what they can be in an arena or in a shed or baseball stadium or wherever. So, quality, memories — we want people to be able to come and make amazing memories with their people and remember being there so they have a little something to put in their pocket for later in the year. I know it’s a weird market right now, with the economy and everything the way that it is, but we put a lot of work and love into trying to bring a little relief to the people who are out there.” Looking back on the Sphere run — which made the ZBB only the second country act and first country band to play at the venue — Brown recalls “a mountain of work,” not only in conceptualizing the shows but also tying it in with the Love & Fear album, which came out on Dec. 5, in conjunction with the first Sphere show. “Honestly, I’m still a little bit burnt out from the two years of making that entire album, making all the visuals for (Sphere), making all the stages and costumes — everything that it took to pull that off,” acknowledges Brown, who was the sole producer, for the first time ever, on the Love & Fear album. “It’s so far beyond anything I’ve done, work-wise…but it’s like, ‘This is the moment. We’re going for it. We’re gonna shoot for the moon,’ but it requires so much work. I don’t think the general public person can tell how much work went into making one night of someone coming to see a show.” He “can’t really say” whether ZBB will have a return engagement at Sphere but says that the effort of the production “is worth it. You learn your limits. You learn what you’re good at. You learn what help you need. It’s a worthy cause; I was trying t