Kid Rock's love for the good ol' boys of music history (Waylon Jennings, the Allman Brothers Band, et al.) is well-known — after all, his 2008 smash, ''All Summer Long,'' heavily samples Lynyrd Skynyrd's rock monument ''Sweet Home Alabama.''
But what contemporary artist floats his Ski-Doo these days? A guy very much after his own heart, it turns out. Country singer-songwriter Zac Brown, a 30-year-old former chef from Dahlonega, Ga., is ''the best thing I've heard in ages,'' says Kid Rock. Brown's hit ''Chicken Fried'' is a rollicking tribute to old-fashioned Southern comforts: cold beer, pecan pie, ''a pair of jeans that fit just right,'' and, of course, deep-fried bird. ''I took my son on vacation, and we listened to his record [The Foundation] the whole weekend,'' says Kid Rock. ''I don't get to just be a fan very often these days, but I was blown away — the singing, the songwriting, the band, the playing, everything.''
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