Zac Brown Band to debut ‘Sunday Night Baseball’ opening
The Zac Brown Band now has one thing in widespread with Carrie Underwood and Lenny Kravitz.
The three-time Grammy Award-winning Southern rock band will star within the opening for NBC’s Sunday evening protection of Major League Baseball.
The band’s opening section will debut on Sunday when the Atlanta Braves host the Cleveland Guardians within the first “Sunday Night Baseball” sport on NBC.
“It’s humbling, honestly, to have our band’s name mentioned in the same breath as theirs in this context means a lot,” Brown stated in an electronic mail to The Associated Press. “We’ve spent many years just trying to make music that connects with people, and something like this tells you that it’s reaching further than you ever imagined.”
The Zac Brown Band sings a reimagined model of Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s “Karn Evil 9, 1st Impression Part 2.”
NBC Sports artistic director Tripp Dixon stated the tune resonated as a result of it options an organ and the primary line is “Welcome back, my friends to the show that never ends.”
The majors have usually been referred to as “The Show.”
“Those were the two elements we felt like, holy cow, that sounds like something to build this idea around,” he stated.
All three additionally carry the theme of “waiting all day for Sunday night.”
Underwood has performed the “Sunday Night Football” opening since 2013, a reimagined tackle Joan Jett’s 1988 tune “I Hate Myself for Loving You”. Kravitz’s opening to “Sunday Night Basketball” makes use of Elvis Presley’s “A Little Less Conversation,” which got here out in 1968.
The “Sunday Night Baseball” opening was shot in Milwaukee final month. A few seconds had been featured on NBC’s opening evening broadcast between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers.
“It was one of those experiences where you step back and think, how did we get here?,” Brown stated. “We put everything we had into the performance and then watching it come together with the visuals, the production, it took on a whole new life. The folks at NBC Sports really understood the energy we were going for. It felt like a genuine collaboration, and when I finally saw the finished product, I was really proud.”
Major League Baseball and NBC agreed in November to a three-year deal for Sunday evening video games and the wild-card spherical of the playoffs.
After Sunday’s sport, the subsequent six weeks shall be on Peacock and NBCSN earlier than NBC takes over from May 31 by means of Sept. 6.
This week’s sport additionally carries particular significance for Brown, who grew up in Georgia and adopted the Braves.
“Man, that’s not lost on me at all. I’m a Georgia boy through and through, so having this debut on a night when the Braves are playing, that’s the kind of thing you just can’t script,” Brown stated. “Our fans know how much Atlanta means to us. To have this moment tied to our team, in our home state, it really makes it feel full circle.”
