Country music and EDM music go together like cereal and orange juice. Zac Brown, lead singer of grammy award winning Zack Brown Band, has taken on a new side project. Close friends Ben Seimonetti (audio engineer) and Niki Moon (song writer) with Zac on vocals have formed Sir Rosevelt a genre bending trio. Zac Brown has become a huge fan of Diplo and Skrillex's (JackU) work which has had some heavy influence on the sound of Sir Rosevelt. The band has even been playing covers of “Don't Let Me Down” by the Chainsmokers at several of their recent shows.
Before you start thinking that Sir Roosevelt is trying to literally mix EDM and Country together it’s the complete opposite. Sir Roosevelt uses techniques (drops, 808 BMP ranges) primarily found in electronic based music. Combined with the bluesy soulful twang of country vocals and instruments you get a brand new sound. This “cross cultural divide” is actually nothing new. Avcii’s album “True” incorporated banjos and blue grass sounds in “Broken Arrows” and “Wake Me Up” which paved the way for the bridging the two very vastly different genres. As Zac mentioned during their live stream on Periscope before debuting the music video for their single “Sunday Finest”, “Sir Rosevelt can go to a lot of new places, it’s like painting with a whole bunch of new colors.”
“Sunday Finest”, their new hit single, features several chorus builds and is catchy enough that you could easily dance to it. Whether or not this JackU inspired country trio will make more than a few singles is up for deabte. However, Zac, Ben and Niki are making music that they want to listen to and thats all that matters.
Possible back-to-back with JackU and Sir Rosevelt in the future? Guess we'll wait and see.
BONUS TRACK: Nothing's Gonna Stop Us
"If you can listen to this and not feel the joy that's in there, you are a cold son of a bitch." -Zac pic.twitter.com/XvLrqtzSvy— Sir Rosevelt (@SirRosevelt) September 29, 2016
