This performance is an extra that the 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' show posts on their You Tube page after as band performs live on the show.  Zac Brown Band sang 'Homegrown' during the telecast a few weeks ago on the late night talk show.  If you do nothing else today... watch this video and listen to the words of the song.

Jimmy De Martini's violin solo in the middle of the song is hauntingly beautiful.

"You never expected the bombs in the sand or sleeping in your dress blues...."

ZBB covered this song from Jason Isbell. According to Saving Country Music,

"The song appears on Isbell’s very first solo album Sirens of the Ditch released in 2007 by New West Records, after he’d left the Drive-By Truckers. It makes reference to the formal dress of Marines that unfortunately so many are buried in after returning to home from war. It was written about Cpl. Matthew D. Conley. Unlike many of these soldier songs, which sometimes cross certain lines of decency in an attempt to tug at heart strings and jerk tears with sappy and even cheesy lines that simplify the issues surrounding loss and war, “Dress Blues” shows off Isbell’s burgeoning prowess as the world-class and well-decorated songwriter that is known in the Americana world today."

It's a powerful and beautiful song.

 

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