Island

Album: Uncaged (2012)
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  • Whilst lyrically, the song's lyrics immediately take you to a place, "down in the islands, down in the islands," musically this has a definite Jamaica/reggae feel. "We play a lot of different styles of music fused together," Zac Brown told The Boot. "I really think we're a vocal band and then the kind of music we decide to put around it is whatever we want it to be for that song. Each song has its own life. Because our voices are there and the harmony is there, our voices are the band and we accompany it differently with different kinds of music."
  • The cut follows other beach-themed songs that ZBB have recorded, which include "Toes," "Knee Deep" and "Where the Boat Leaves From."

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