You just had to know Zach Bryan wasn’t going to let this year end without putting a little musical stamp on things, didn’t you?
Over the past few years, few artists have released as much music as Zach Bryan. In fact, only Willie Nelson and Charley Crockett have released more songs associated with an album, showing that, at least in this instance, quality is not always sacrificed for quantity.
While it certainly wasn’t a long stretch by any typical industry standard, we hadn’t gotten an album from Zach since he released The Great American Bar Scene, back in July. That’s only 5 months, but fans were starting to get antsy, especially given he’d broken his pattern of releasing an EP following his albums, said a few times this year was the last he’d be touring, and all the negative press he’d been receiving for a number of reasons throughout 2024.
But fans were able to put fears that Zach would go radio silent to bed when he took to social media tonight, announcing the release of a live album consisting of various performances from The Quittin’ Time Tour, which he just wrapped up at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
“THE QUITTIN TIME TOUR IS OVER. THE LIVE RECORD IS OUT NOW. MOST BEAUTIFUL YEAR OF MY LIFE”
How about that video set to Green Day’s “Good Riddance” and all those clips of drunk people making fools out of themselves? The “most beautiful year of my life” line aside, I really need to get myself back to a ZB concert…
The live album, titled 24 (Live), consists of 25 tracks from stops on The Quittin’ Time Tour and includes collaborations with John Mayer (“Better Days”, Los Angeles), Maggie Rogers (“Dawns”, Brooklyn), Kacey Musgraves (“I Remember Everything”, Chicago), and The War & Treaty (“Hey Driver”, Washington, DC).
Zach and his team have been trying to make a system to share recordings of each concert with the fans that went, and while there’s been a lot of technical and logistical problems with the roll out, you really have to hand it to Zach for doing his best to create special moments for so many individual segments of fans. I’m sure they’ll figure out concert sharing one day (the concept is sick) but this is a great stop gap in the meantime.
Now, fans who went to the show in Tampa, Greensboro, Tulsa, Vancouver, Foxborough, or Little Rock can listen to this album and say “Hey, remember what you were doing during this one?” or “Man, I wish he chose this song because that was such a special moment” and it creates these extra reflection times to appreciate the really cool moments in our lives.
There’s been lots of bad in the news regarding Zach this year and let’s be honest, much of that was well deserved, but let’s separate the art from the artist for a second and recognize that his rise has been truly spectacular. A kid in the Navy posting YouTube videos to a full-blown country music superstar in just a few years, all the while staying true to his passion for real, quality, poetic songwriting. That’s once in a lifetime in the truest sense.
Let’s enjoy it, in the moment, while we still can.
Zach Bryan – 24 (Live) full tracklist below the video
Zach Bryan – 24 (Live) Tracklist
- “Overtime – Live From Detroit”
- “Open the Gate – Live From Atlanta”
- “God Speed – Live From San Antonio”
- “The Great American Bar Scene – Live From Philadelphia”
- “Fifth of May – Live From Kansas City”
- “Tishomingo – Live From Little Rock”
- “Oak Island – Live From Dallas”
- “Nine Ball – Live From Vancouver”
- “’68 Fast Back – Live From Tulsa”
- “East Side of Sorrow – Live From Nashville”
- “28 – Live From Tampa”
- “Tourniquet – Live From Oakland”
- “Boys Of Faith – Live From Edmonton”
- “Better Days (feat. John Mayer) – Live From Los Angeles”
- “Oklahoma Smokeshow – Live From Greensboro”
- “Dawns (feat. Maggie Rogers) – Live From Brooklyn”
- “Pink Skies – Live from Minneapolis”
- “Starved – Live From Sacramento”
- “American Nights – Live From Foxborough”
- “I Remember Everything (feat. Kacey Musgraves) – Live From Chicago”
- “Hey Driver – (feat. The War & Treaty) – Live From Washington, D.C.”
- “Burn, Burn, Burn – Live From Denver”
- “Oklahoma Son – Live From Oklahoma City”
- “Quittin’ Time – Live From Salt Lake City”
- “Revival – Live From Knoxville”